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Daniel Altman
Chief Economist, Big Think
Daniel Altman is Big Think's Chief Economist and an adjunct faculty member at New York University's Stern School of Business. Daniel wrote economic commentary for The Economist, The New York Times, and The International Herald Tribune before founding North Yard Economics, a non-profit consulting firm serving developing countries, in 2008. In between, he served as an economic advisor in the British government and wrote four books, most recently Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy.
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Bitcoin is just the first virtual currency to make it big – and you can bet it won’t be the last.
Big Think chief Economist Daniel Altman has a suggestion to end this long national nightmare: get rid of the corporate income tax.
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The tax on corporate profits is a terrible tax. Economists to this day don’t know who pays it. And that means that we really don’t know who’s bearing the burden.
The United States still has problems to resolve, but it is on a stronger economic footing than before the crisis.
There really is a chance that some of the great scientific innovations that tech evangelists have been talking about will come true. But we can't count on them.
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While there is a chance that many of the scientific innovations that have been forecast will come true, even within our lifetime, we still can’t count on them. We have […]
If your house got blown away by a hurricane, you’d probably want to build a stronger house next time, right? The same should be true for financial markets. The government […]