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Yael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG, said the "subdued" wage growth made it more likely that the Bank of England would keep interest rates on hold at 3.75% when it meets next week.

From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026

“One distinctive feature of the British planning system is the degree to which it empowers local opposition,” said economist Christian Hilber.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

One Goldman Sachs economist examined the risk of those price spikes becoming normalized.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 20, 2026

"This is the final phase of the strategy to make Ivory Coast an upper-middle-income country by 2030," explained economist Blaise Makaye, a researcher at the University of Bouake.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

I had long wanted to talk to an economist about some of the ideas I had come across in my reading.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

Key to how Morgan Stanley sees things panning out is the non-consensus view of the investment bank’s economists who believe the Fed will stay on hold in 2026.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

A consensus of economists polled by The Wall Street Journal expected a rate of 5.0%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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

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

The economists decided to test their solution by conducting a study of ten day-care centers in Haifa, Israel.

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