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Last month, the EPA finally, officially, publicly, decided that greenhouse gas emissions do pose a threat to the environment and to human health and wellbeing. Groups like the Environmental Defense […]
The Nation says public subsidy can save journalism in America. The Columbia Journalism Review predicts public outcry at impending Wall Street bonuses. The U.K.’s Digital Economy Bill could grant Google […]
Paleontologist Peter Ward, professor of biology at the University of Washington and an expert on mass extinction events, stopped by Big Think today to discuss nothing less than the fate […]
Historian Nancy Koehn sat down with Big Think to talk about the future of business. In this video, she addresses the matter as it pertains to our workforce's youngest generation: […]
Jury selection starts this week in the trial of Scott Roeder, who has confessed to the assassination last May of George Tiller, a doctor vilified by pro-lifers for performing late-term […]
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The mortgage market indicated that what the banks faced was a solvency problem, not just a liquidity problem, says Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith.
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Nobel Prize winning economist Vernon Smith says the question is, how do you achieve just a bit without getting too much?
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Vernon Smith sees an age of people creating derivatives markets on public policy outcomes.
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We forgot the lesson of the ‘roaring 20’s’ in the case of the housing markets and that’s what caused a recurrence; you see of a lot of the same conditions […]
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Even though the circumstances would be foreign to him, the great Austrian economist wouldn’t be surprised.
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Economist Vernon Smith has said that most bubbles do not bring down the entire economy when they pop. So what happened this time?
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A conversation with the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics.
The fight over who owns art might have just gone nuclear, and Vincent van Gogh’s 1888 painting The Night Cafe is at the center of it. The descendents of the […]
From my own observation of having lived and worked in both the United States and Britain the main difference between media coverage of politicians in both countries is that of […]
Product safety officers are launching an investigation into the presence of the toxic metal cadmium in children’s jewelry import from China after evidence of the substance was found.
Heineken is planning on buying the beer operations of Mexican brewers Femsa in an all-share transaction valued at $7.6 billion.
A cure may have been found for a defective alcohol metabolism enzyme that affects and estimated 1 billion people worldwide, according to research by the NIAAA.
A New Jersey company called TrueCompanion has unveiled the world’s first “sex robot” – a woman replica called “Roxxxy” who has different personalities and responds to touch.
The Pope has denounced the violent clashes between Italians and illegal immigrants which has left dozens injured in the southern town of Rosarno in the last few days.
North Korea has called for a formal peace treaty with the US in exchange for returning to international talks about its nuclear weapons programme.