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economist

[ih-kon-uh-mist] / ɪˈkɒn ə mɪst /
NOUN
statistician
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“Warmer-than-usual weather over the northern hemisphere winter could limit heating-related demand and help relieve upward pressure on natural gas and LNG prices in Europe and Asia,” says David Oxley, chief commodities economist.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

"Reforms are not clearly defined in the agreement document. Some ambiguity remains", Abdoulaye Ndiaye, a Senegalese economist at New York University, told AFP.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

“The difference in interpretation of the inflation data between Waller and Warsh is big. They don’t agree,” said Claudia Sahm, chief economist at New Century Advisors.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

As a libertarian economist, he is an admirer of Thatcher.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

His economist friends thought he had lost his mind, but his wife supported him.

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

The consensus forecast among economists had been for an unchanged unemployment rate and a modest 15,000 rise in employment.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

The IMF loan programme, economists say, provides a catalyst for financing from other institutions such as the World Bank, African Development Bank, private investors and others.

From Barron's Sep. 3, 2026

Leading business experts and economists say that without Australia's data centre boom over the last couple of years, the country would likely have headed into a recession.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

The economy probably added a net 53,000 new jobs in August, according to economists polled by the Wall Street Journal.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

When I persisted in my carping to the economists, they generally backed down a bit, conceding that while wages at the bottom are going up, they’re not going up very briskly.

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



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