List of Economics articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Are U.S. Sanctions a Gift to Venezuela?
When economic weapons empower the leaders they target.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Gold, Oil, and Cigarettes: How an Obscure Trade Provision Protects the World’s Biggest Companies
Investor-state provisions in free trade agreements allow companies to arbitrate disputes with governments outside of local courts.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Under Finnish Law, ‘Meatballs’ Are Now Just Plain Old ‘Balls’
The law says the animal product they're made of doesn’t really count as meat because it’s been “mechanically recovered.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Are Chadian Youth Rioting Over a Motorcycle Helmet Law?
In Chad, a new law passed requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets. But the cost of helmets has now tripled and students fear they won't be able to afford their daily rides to class.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can Anyone Stop the World Cup in Qatar?
Workers have died by the hundreds constructing the emirate's soccer fantasy land, and still FIFA is intent on keeping the tournament there. Here’s a not-so-crazy alternative.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Delhi’s New Chief Minister Wants to Radically Democratize Public Spending. Can It Work?
Letting the people dictate the budget is unprecedented for Delhi, but it draws on a quarter-century of other "participatory budgeting" programs in India and around the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Business Is Booming at Abu Dhabi’s Great Arms Bazaar
With conflicts raging from Ukraine to Syria to Yemen, there's something for everyone -- and every conflict -- at the world's most important gun show.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Beware the Malaise
Political discontent is following economic stagnation in more places than you think.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Would Hugo Chávez Do?
How would Hugo Chávez have responded to Venezuela's collapsing economy? Almost certainly not how President Maduro is doing it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China’s Real Inconvenient Truth: Its Class Divide
Solving China's air and water pollution will require addressing the gap between rich urbanites and rural peasants.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is the Euro Compatible With Democracy?
Berlin doesn't seem to think so.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Boko Haram Turns Robin Hood’s Strategy on Its Head
Forget oil or gold. West Africa’s most dangerous terrorist group is funding its rampages by ignoring the rich and targeting the poor.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 West Threatens New Sanctions Against Russia
U.S. and European policymakers are meeting to craft new restrictions, but it's unclear what Russian action would prompt them.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Empty Shelves and Coup Plots in Venezuela
President Nicolás Maduro faces a teetering economy and an angry population. So he's turned to a favorite target -- America.
