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Economists Say Millennials Should Consider Careers In Trades
2015-02-03 05:10:45| Energy - Topix.net
Jeffy Docteur is one of the students in the NSTAR electrician apprenticeship program outside Boston. He says he's interested in working on switching systems that keep power flowing through the electrical grid.
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Hear Ag economists discuss how gas prices, drones will affect Georgia agriculture in 2015
2015-01-07 14:32:40| Agriculture - Topix.net
An Erista model drone flyer by Hoverfly carries a mounted digital SLR camera over a field near the company's headquarters. Falling gas prices and agri-technology - including the growing use of drones - are expected to greatly affect Georgia's agriculture industry in the coming year.
In its attack on real estate 'quasi-cartel,' Surefield enlists economists
2014-12-16 16:15:32| Real Estate - Topix.net
A new Seattle online real estate company, Surefield, said it aims to cut commissions paid to real estate agents, calling the industry a "quasi-cartel." In its attack against the current real estate industry, which it has called a "quasi-cartel," Seattle online real estate company Surefield said it's retained three "leading" college economists.
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Economists: EPA CO2 Plan May Be Too Weak
2014-11-13 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: On one hand, the Obama administration's plan to slash carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants may have been the move the Chinese needed to see from the U.S. in order to agree to the climate pact the two countries struck this week. On the other, the Clean Power Plan may not have what it takes to cut the CO2 emissions it's setting out to slash. That's the conclusion of 13 economists from the University of Chicago, Stanford University, Yale, Harvard, MIT, and the University of California-Berkeley...
Embarrassing economists
2014-10-24 10:28:49| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
So as to give some perspective, I'm going to ask readers for their guesses about human behavior before explaining my embarrassment by some of my fellow economists. Suppose the prices of ladies jewelry rose by 100 percent.
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