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New browser plugin stops people bamboozling you with numbers
By Alex Hern - 16 May 8:45

Dictionary of Numbers provides that much needed context.

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Greece & Germany: Things tend to get worse before they get more worse
By Left Outside - 15 May 9:58

Cutting your nose off to incentivise your face to implement much needed structural reforms.

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France falls into triple-dip recession
By Alex Hern - 15 May 8:31

A bad end to a bad year for François Hollande.

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A construction site. The sector's performance in 2012 was revised up, causing so
Is the double-dip no more? Does it matter?
By Alex Hern - 13 May 12:34

Maybe, and no. No it does not.

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Michael Gove revealed to be using PR-commissioned puff-polls as "evidence"
By Alex Hern - 13 May 9:15

Eight out of ten cats prefer Michael Gove to Whiskas.

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We need to talk about profit
By Alex Hern - 10 May 16:56

Accounting profit is necessary for publicly traded companies to survive; it's not a sign of extortion.

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Do we actually want to be a society of homeowners?
By Alex Hern - 08 May 18:08

High rates of home ownership have large negative effects on the labour market. Why are we trying to boost it?

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Improving motherhood means reducing inequality, not just poverty
By Duncan Exley - 08 May 16:13

The UK is a worse country in which to be a mother than many poorer nations, according to Save the Children.

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Student loans in Britain are basically taxes – and universities want to raise them
By Alex Hern - 07 May 16:12

Pulling the rug out from under students.

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Sunderland, the most equal city in Britain, in 1880. Photograph: Getty Images
The further you are from London, the more equal the cities are
By Alex Hern - 07 May 14:16

What is inequality on an urban level?

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The safest place in economics is wherever Niall Ferguson isn't
By Alex Hern - 07 May 12:27

The historian isn't so hot when he's looking forwards in time.

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Micro-level policy is sometimes the hardest to get right
By Alex Hern - 06 May 17:57

Our education system still funnels people towards universities.

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Bogus psychometric tests for jobseekers were used without permission
By Alex Hern - 06 May 16:34

Questionnaire "had failed its scientific validation".

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Facebook is suffering from an overdose of dog food
By Alex Hern - 06 May 13:33

The company's staff are so ingrained with the network that they can't make products normal people want to use.

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Osborne will struggle to debate the IMF head-on
By Alex Hern - 05 May 13:39

Without being able to turn to now-slain canards, the chancellor's arguments fall apart.

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Help to Buy won't bring a sub-prime crisis to Britain – but it does move us closer to one
By Preston Byrne - 04 May 12:26

Boosting house prices is a funny way to solve the housing crisis, writes Preston Byrne.

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Over ten per cent of Britain's possible labour is wasted
By Alex Hern - 02 May 10:09

Combining underemployment and unemployment shows the output gap is much bigger than previously estimated.

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Wind energy is much more popular than its opponents would have you think
By Jennifer Webber - 02 May 7:50

Even in the Tories, more people support wind farms than oppose them.

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Deflation in the tech industry
By Alex Hern - 01 May 15:57

Bitcoin fans, take note.

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The DWP's bogus psychometric tests are dystopian, but randomised trials aren't the problem
By Alex Hern - 01 May 12:06

The solution is more trials, not fewer.

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Think before you retweet: why the "scrounger spike" is illusory
By Declan Gaffney - 01 May 11:48

What happened between 2004 and 2010 is more people started writing about welfare.

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Maybe we should start hoping for a recession to fix climate change
By Alex Hern - 01 May 9:17

America's on a hiding to nothing, and it's not much better here.

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Unemployment up and inflation down in the eurozone
By Alex Hern - 30 April 13:06

ECB rate cuts expected

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Bank of England mulls pay rise for its court
By Alex Hern - 30 April 8:48

"Just" £15,000 for three days work a month.

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Foreign exchange platform puts the brakes on high-frequency traders
By Alex Hern - 29 April 8:21

EBS has changed its rules to discourage algobots.

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Bangladeshi volunteers and rescue workers assist in rescue operations 48 hours a
Now is not the time to defend sweatshops
By Alex Hern - 26 April 17:31

Abstract arguments about the benefits of outsourcing have no place in defending criminal negligence, here or overseas.

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Why Japan needs Abenomics and Bitcoin faces a lost century
By Alex Hern - 26 April 15:33

What do Japan's "lost decade" and the intractable problem facing bitcoin have in common? Deflation.

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GDP may have risen, but the poorest fifth still lose out on £2,000 a year because of rising inequality
By Annie Quick - 26 April 10:46

What would Britain be like if the income distribution was the same as in 1977?

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It’s time to act on food poverty
By Fiona Twycross - 25 April 17:20

Our aim must be to make the UK a Zero Hunger Country, writes Fiona Twycross AM.

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Amazon lobbies to pay more tax in the US
By Alex Hern - 25 April 15:33

Yes, you read that right.

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