President Trump has proposed a one-year pay freeze for federal bureaucrats, which has reinvigorated the debate over whether compensation levels for the civil service are too lavish. The Washington Post opines this is nothing but “government bashing,” but this chart from my former colleague Chris Edwards should be more than...
CEPR co-director Mark Weisbrot lays out the roots of Argentina's latest economic crisis, which have to do with the government's massive foreign borrowing spree, deepening austerity measures, and rising Federal Reserve interest rates on www.therealnews.com.
How slot machines work – and why you should think twice before playing them
A night at the slots.
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Anthony Frederick Lucas, University of Nevada, Las Vegas The gaming industry is big business in the U.S., contributing an estimated US$240 billion...
Legendary Watergate journalist Bob Woodward has a book coming out next month that details the first year and a half of Donald Trump's presidency, and excerpts published by the Washington Post and CNN on Tuesday depict a White House...
A team of scientists has announced remains of a human girl from about 50 thousand years ago had one Neanderthal parent and one Denisovan parent, two different species of humans, both species now extinct. The results, from genomic tests...
Peter Dixon, global financial economist at Commerzbank, discusses the outlook for oil prices in an interview with Francine Lacqua on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
