There are two things that "everyone knows" about the US middle class: it's shrinking in size and the government isn't helping.
During my adult life, the main arguments about global population typically revolved around the topic of whether growth in population would overwhelm natural resources and lead to mass starvation and environmental collapse, or whether growth in population would be accompanied by technological progress in a way that would lead to a generally rising standard of living.
The "planning fallacy" refers to a psychological theory that people systematically underestimate how long it will take them to complete a given task.
Brexit, the process of disconnecting the United Kingdom from the European Union, has been launched.
During World War II, a Statistical Research Group was formed to assist the war effort.
In my experience, relatively few of those who pretend to adjudicate between capitalism and socialism are interested weighing the evidence: instead, most of these discussions quickly turn into denunciations of the flaws of capitalism, apparently with the assumption that any un-capitalism would inevitably be an improvement.
· 2020 has been a torrid year for stock markets globally · Fiscal and monetary stimulus rescued investors from a brutal bear-market · Digital transformation has accelerated and fortunes of the technology sector with it · With mass-vaccination still some way off, 2021 will see many trends continue