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economist

[ih-kon-uh-mist] / ɪˈkɒn ə mɪst /
NOUN
statistician
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As long as profits aren’t affected, there could be room for higher yields and higher stocks to coexist, said Eric Winograd, chief U.S. economist at AllianceBernstein.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

Yael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG, said the 2.8% rate of inflation was "likely as low as it gets for some time".

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide, said in an email that the market is premature in pricing in a rate hike by next March, however.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

Existing-home sales edged up 0.2%, well below economist expectations and extending the industry’s long slump.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

In a perfect world, an economist could run a controlled experiment just as a physicist or a biologist does: setting up two samples, randomly manipulating one of them, and measuring the effect.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt



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