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Marking the One-Year Anniversary of the Facebook Flop

Global Economic Watch — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:20:13 GMT

Facebook, always a very, very public experience, really went public. And despite all the hype around

Global Economic Watch — Mon, 06 May 2013 15:10:56 GMT

In the Washington Post , Lawrence Summers weighs in on the now infamous Rogoff-Reinhart coding error

Global Economic Watch — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:56:54 GMT

Last week we pointed you to Erik Brynjolfsson 's optimistic TedTalk in which he argues that innovation

Global Economic Watch — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 12:45:51 GMT

In their latest World Economic Outlook , IMF analysts pointed out that inflation "has become less

Global Economic Watch — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:20:42 GMT

The latest Planet Money podcast features an interview with Thomas Herndon . Herndon attracted a lot of

Global Economic Watch — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:33:05 GMT

Here is your contemporary economics lecture for the day, and it is a start-studded one. Last week, Ben

Global Economic Watch — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:12:02 GMT

Yesterday we looked to the always measured and methodical Tim Duy to explain why he sees a lasting recovery

Global Economic Watch — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:01:24 GMT

The designers at Mercer/Think have taken some of the top-line data from the World Economic Forum 's

Global Economic Watch — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:00:11 GMT

The IMF is now projecting 3.5 percent growth in global GDP in 2013. That is down slightly from what the

Global Economic Watch — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:38:58 GMT

We noted on Friday that the Civilian Labor Force Participation Rate was unchanged in the December jobs

Global Economic Watch — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:30:24 GMT

The OECD's relatively positive economic outlook , released earlier this week, presented Europe's

Global Economic Watch — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:01:29 GMT

A couple of weeks back, we pointed to the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report . We love

Global Economic Watch — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:36:23 GMT

The iPhone 5 was a big seller this weekend. Some 5 million phones were sold (maybe not as high as some

Global Economic Watch — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:15:22 GMT

If you are among those consumers who have eschewed hotels while traveling and chosen the 21st century

Global Economic Watch — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:43:40 GMT

Last year, Scotch sales got a surprising lift from consumers in Brazil, India and China . And now it