economist

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If needed, all the Gulf monarchies could sustain the closure of the Strait of Hormuz for many months, limiting Iran’s leverage, said Saudi economist Fawaz al-Fawaz, president of the Jood consulting firm in Riyadh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

“This is a significant and necessary step towards reopening the Strait and, potentially, ending the war,” said James Reilly, senior markets economist at Capital Economics.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

The economist argued that, even if AI makes the cost of providing goods or services cheaper, demand and the need for more employees might go along with it.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Brian Jabarian, a University of Chicago economist who conducted a rigorous independent evaluation of A.I. detectors, told me flatly, “This narrative that we shouldn’t use A.I. detection doesn’t seem to hold anymore.”

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026

This outcome may surprise some people—including Feldman’s economist friends, who counseled him twenty years ago that his honor-system scheme would never work.

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