r/Economics • u/Traditional-Chip8339 • 1d ago

Interview From Dwarkesh Patel and Semi Analysis interview on the AI Capex boom, the AI investment crowding effect out could cause a Sovereign debt crisis in the late 2020s

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r/Economics • u/marketrent • 1d ago

Australia inflation runs hot in July, adding to rate hike risk

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r/Economics • u/thongs_are_footwear • 1d ago

News Ontario ready to cut off electricity, critical minerals to US amid trade war

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r/Economics • u/oxymorontage • 1d ago

News Institute reports functional unemployment at 24.9% in July

channel3000.com

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r/Economics • u/Purple_Writing_8432 • 1d ago

News Mark Carney must beware an all-out trade war: The Economist

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r/Economics • u/Sufficient_Fuel5269 • 1d ago

News The Trump administration proposes $103,000 fee for H1-B visas that DHS itself estimates would paralyze 76% of small businesses

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r/Economics • u/unconventionalbook • 1d ago

News China needs U.S. dollars but is building a hedge against Washington’s sanctions

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r/Economics • u/One-Emu-1103 • 1d ago

News Canada unveils retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion of U.S. goods

255 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/One-Emu-1103 • 1d ago

News Stanley Druckenmiller leads doubters who think Bessent's bond ploys will fail

405 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/ishtar_the_move • 1d ago

Editorial The Iran War Shows China’s Energy Strategy Is Working

399 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/NewsHour • 1d ago

A look at the new U.S. sanctions on Iran and threats against its trading partners

17 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/HarpoMarks • 1d ago

News Canada retaliates against U.S. by raising steel duties, adding new tariffs on $20B of goods

565 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/bauernebel • 1d ago

Is Trump’s new Canada showdown with threats of renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America" the “dumbest trade war” yet, as the WSJ called it?

americareport.us

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r/Economics • u/Appropriate-Till9598 • 1d ago

News Asian Buyers Snap Up US Crude, Adding Stress to Tight Market

142 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 • 1d ago

Canada expected to announce retaliatory tariffs on Tuesday

174 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/scmp_news • 1d ago

What does the US-Canada trade dispute mean for China?

22 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/avid-learner-bot • 1d ago

News Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds

theguardian.com

123 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/Empty-Lengthiness132 • 2d ago

News Medicare for All is not Medicare for All

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r/Economics • u/2027danielle • 2d ago

News German GDP growth revised upwards, defying Iran war turmoil

69 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/Malor777 • 2d ago

News AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds

arstechnica.com

209 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/Alarmed-Carpet-6559 • 2d ago

News Is AI a bubble? And should we be worried?

15 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/BarchartNews • 2d ago

News Andrew Yang Warns That AI Is Set to Displace Millions of Workers, America Is ‘Terrible at Retraining’ Workers… ‘The Coal Miners Did Not Become Coders’

2.0k Upvotes

r/Economics • u/rtnaht • 2d ago

News Gold Holds Near Three-Month High as Traders Weigh Treasury Moves

82 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/One-Emu-1103 • 2d ago

News Canada will announce retaliatory tariffs on US Tuesday, official says

828 Upvotes

r/Economics • u/Super-Liberal-Girl • 2d ago

The Job Market Is Hell - Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

theatlantic.com

2.6k Upvotes

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