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Would the US be better off with legal sports gambling?
A Supreme Court decision has created an opportunity for legalized sports gambling. Should US states take it?
Should economic policy makers have economics degrees?
Would an education-based restriction promote good policy or needlessly narrow the candidate pool?
Relief from deportation helps cut the education gap
DACA had a significant impact on the schooling, work, and fertility decisions of undocumented youth.
Capitalisn’t: Regulating financial weapons of mass destruction
Former CFTC commissioner Sharon Bowen discusses the importance of market transparency and the devastation of the 2007–10 financial crisis.
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How poverty changes your mind-set
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Why hasn’t technology sped up productivity?
Slow productivity growth is costly. There’s cause for hope.
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Not all ‘pump and dump’ investors are gullible
Research explores who actually invests in pump-and-dump schemes
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Why it’s so hard to simplify the tax code
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Are Google and Facebook monopolies?
Chicago Booth’s Luigi Zingales and George Mason University’s Tyler Cowen discuss the market power wielded by digital platforms, and how to promote competition