Latest articles by John Aziz
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What's up with the recent rash of banker suicides?
feature Some see systemic doom and gloom in the deaths
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How did Americans manage to lose $119 billion gambling last year?
feature The world lost a record of amount of money last year, and America led the pack
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Why the poor's investment of choice is so alarming
feature Rich people prefer productive companies while the poor prefer shiny lumps of metal. That's bad news.
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Does welfare make people lazy?
feature Conservatives often claim that it does. It's not that simple.
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Greg Mankiw's critique of ObamaCare is everything wrong with conservative thinking
feature In invoking the Hippocratic Oath, the conservative economist unwittingly points out the GOP's big problem on health care
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Millennials are becoming financial Neanderthals
feature And that might be unkind to Neanderthals
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Britain has basically decriminalized internet piracy. The U.S. should, too.
feature Internet piracy is bad for the economy. It's also impossible to police.
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It's time for America to end ethanol subsidies
feature Corn that is inefficiently converted into fuel for cars is corn that isn't efficiently converted into fuel for humans
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Why do Keynesians prefer government spending over private spending?
feature It’s not because Keynesians are ideologically in favor of big government
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The main lesson of Argentina's debt nightmare
feature The root cause of Argentina's woes should be familiar to many Europeans
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Nassim Taleb used to be my hero. But today, he's just plain wrong.
feature Some predictions matter more than others
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Does the United States need a sovereign wealth fund?
feature The government could use the fund to offset the effects of a financial crash
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Unemployment isn't voluntary
feature There are still about 3 unemployed people for every 1 job opening in America
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The perils of predicting a stock market crash in 2014
feature The only bubble we're in appears to be filled with hot air
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Would a bubble be good for the American economy?
feature A boom is not the same thing as a bubble
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How open immigration could double the global economy
feature But we might never try it...
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Is Obama's new retirement plan a federal bailout waiting to happen?
feature A decent, no-risk return? Sounds risky.
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Mt Gox is dying. That's a good thing for Bitcoin.
feature Bitcoin can do better than an overwhelmed website formerly known as a hub for trading Magic the Gathering cards
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Bitcoin falls below $500 — and it could go much lower
feature The digital currency is showing its inherent instability
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Why the Volcker Rule won't solve the problem of Too Big To Fail
feature Or any problems, really...
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Why negative interest rates won't jumpstart Europe's economy
feature The European Central Bank has resorted to a seemingly extreme measure, but it's not nearly extreme enough to revive the euro zone
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Why Microsoft was smart to spend $2.5 billion on a low-fi game based on computerized Lego blocks
feature The computer industry is changing. Microsoft's acquisition of Minecraft is a heartening sign that the company knows it.
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Careless whisper: What Janet Yellen could learn from Mark Carney's big mistake
feature In the world of central banking, words matter
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No, you can't trade $1,000 into $264 billion
feature Newsflash: Daytrading is extremely unlikely to make you rich. It is, however, likely to cost you a lot of money.
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