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economist

[ih-kon-uh-mist] / ɪˈkɒn ə mɪst /
NOUN
statistician
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One Goldman Sachs economist examined the risk of those price spikes becoming normalized.

From MarketWatch Jul. 20, 2026

"We don't expect any change to interest rates at this meeting," Berenberg bank senior economist Felix Schmidt told AFP.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

As a health economist who studies how insurance coverage affects people’s health, I see the drop as more than a numbers story.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

“It either means cutting expenditure now or cutting expenditure in the future,” said David Laibson, a Harvard economist.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

The economist Kenneth Arrow has proved a very powerful generalization which shows that something like the above situation characterizes every voting system.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos

That increase was likely lifted by the World Cup, the bank’s economists wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Some economists argued it was unnecessary and would weigh heavily on households and businesses in the struggling eurozone.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

The 0.4-percentage-point drop in the index compared with a year earlier was steeper than that expected by economists, who had penciled in inflation of 3%, though gas prices remain elevated.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Much of the harm comes from a concept that health economists like me call churn – the cycling in and out of insurance that many lower-income Americans experience.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

When I called around to various economists in the summer of 2000 and complained about the inadequacy of the wages available to entry-level workers, this was their first response: “But wages are going up!”

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich



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