economist
a specialist in economics.
Archaic. a thrifty or frugal person.
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Investment gurus typically think of the rational retail investor as the kind of creature dreamed up by the economist Benjamin Graham.
Buying bitcoin after an Elon Musk tweet is a perfectly rational move | Samanth Subramanian | February 10, 2021 | QuartzWhich brings us to everyone’s favorite villain economist, Larry Summers.
Why Larry Summers Still Triggers Washington. (It Isn’t His Economics.) | Philip Elliott | February 8, 2021 | TimeDraghi is an adept economist who’s been called on to get the bel paese out of all manner of crises over the years, usually by selling assets to get the country out of some financial hole.
Bitcoin, stocks and crude take off as the markets brace for a wave of stimulus checks | Bernhard Warner | February 8, 2021 | FortuneSome economists estimate that the pandemic will cause the gender wage gap to widen by five percentage points.
Nearly 80% of the 346,000 workers who vanished from the U.S. labor force in January are women | Maria Aspan | February 5, 2021 | FortuneMost economists support giving more relief to Americans who are struggling to put food on the table or keep their small business from closing.
Here’s the new Democratic plan for $1,400 stimulus checks | Heather Long, Jeff Stein | February 5, 2021 | Washington Post
Why has Michael Bloomberg replaced his longtime lieutenant with the editor-in-chief of The economist?
Jonathan Gruber, the economist who helped design Romneycare and the Affordable Care Act, falls on his sword before Congress.
Berkeley-based economist Enrico Moretti is also bearish on the future of the region.
The Rustbelt Roars Back From the Dead | Joel Kotkin, Richey Piiparinen | December 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe economist has calculated that it spends $170 billion annually in the United States alone.
The New Yorker, The economist, and many other media outlets have joined in to jump on Beijing as well.
As a brilliant conversationalist and well-versed political economist he has few rivals in his country.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanPrices such as are indicated here were dismissed by the earlier economist as mere economic curiosities.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockBut it was the labyrinth for which the earlier economist held, so he thought, the thread.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockWhat the economist does is to slip out of the difficulty altogether by begging the whole question.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe high rent of a Broadway store, says the economist, does not add a single cent to the price of the things sold in it.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen Leacock
British Dictionary definitions for economist
/ (ɪˈkɒnəmɪst) /
a specialist in economics
archaic a person who advocates or practises frugality
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