FTSE 100 ends its worst year since the financial crash in the red

http://bit.ly/2QbI6sg

Due primarily to environmental regulations, most pollution from US manufacturing found to have greatly declined since 1990, despite increases in production.

http://bit.ly/2GCBjIG

They Fight Economics, but Economics Always Wins

http://bit.ly/2s1sYnK

​​BP claiming that an oil spill off Australia’s coast would boost the local economy is literally a real life Parable of the Broken Window

http://bit.ly/2CJeWgN

U.S. dollar share of global currency reserves hits near 5-year low. Euro and Yen rises. IMF

https://reut.rs/2TfbIqC

Bubble Watch: 10 Southern California economic trends we worry about

http://bit.ly/2RkNHRG

Critique on Radical Markets

http://bit.ly/2AnxRvG

Global markets in worst year since 2008

https://bbc.in/2AqB7Xl

Justice Department Recovers Over $2.8 Billion from False Claims

http://ingeareco.ml

Gas prices drop, but here's why drivers shouldn't get too used to them

https://cnb.cx/2VhBP1R

Life's getting harder for central banks

http://bit.ly/2TiTfJS

Living paycheck to paycheck is disturbingly common: ‘I see no way out.’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/living-paycheck-to-paycheck-is-disturbingly-common-‘i-see-no-way-out’/ar-BBRwXHX

A Far More Dangerous Form Of Religion

http://bit.ly/2VkXbLV

Why Paul Krugman Would Pause Rate Hikes if He was Fed Chair

https://bloom.bg/2CJ9Lxj

The Uncharity of College: The Big Business Nobody Understands

http://bit.ly/2CIoV5N

The coming reckoning for capitalism

http://bit.ly/2SnVfQR

EU, Mercosur aim to make world's biggest trade bloc by end of 2019

http://bit.ly/2BLzaVf

Activity in China’s manufacturing sector contracted for the first time in more than two years in the month of December

http://bit.ly/2SthGEd

Literally a real life Parable of the Broken Window. (http://bit.ly/2EYxPO3)

http://bit.ly/2sa4xVj

Richard Branson believes the key to success is a three-day workweek. With today's cutting-edge technology, he believes there is no reason people can't work less hours and be equally — if not more — effective.

https://cnb.cx/2VmBaMz

A new report suggests NYC's real estate downturn is deepening, and may not hit bottom for months

https://cnb.cx/2GMNcfa

China's December manufacturing activity contracts even more than expected

https://cnb.cx/2EW2g8t

The Next Recession: Mark Zandi says corporate debt could cause 'reckoning' in 2020

https://cnb.cx/2ViVezF

U.S. presses China for details on deal to resolve trade tensions

https://on.mktw.net/2RvAgyx

The Biggest Problem For The Global Economy In 2019 Won't Be The US-China Trade War

http://bit.ly/2AmNvrr

What Eight Social Trends Told Us About America's Economy in 2018

https://bloom.bg/2s1pKR4

Seattle is more affordable than Detroit? How's that even possible?

http://bit.ly/2EWzRPJ

Immigration to Israel up 5% in 2018 | Globes

http://bit.ly/2EXNr4w

High-Tax State Exodus

https://on.wsj.com/2s1AUVQ

New research shows the franchise business model harms workers and franchisees, with the problem rooted in current antitrust law - Equitable Growth

http://bit.ly/2CFbwLU

Net zero immigration and shelf contacts min wage post Brexit

http://bit.ly/2GKBaCM

An Economic Geography of the United States: From Commutes to Megaregions

http://bit.ly/2QbUloQ

17 million workers will receive a pay raise in 2019

https://cnb.cx/2ERKkec

Let's not emphasize behavioral economics

http://bit.ly/2Vg84i7

What made solar panels so cheap? Thank government policy.

http://bit.ly/2QUxwLA

Oil, Terrorism and the Khashoggi killing

http://bit.ly/2SzJt5O

The federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has remained the same since 2009. Since then, 29 states and the District of Columbia have set minimum wages above the federal level. Twenty states have minimum wage increases taking effect around the start of the new year.

http://bit.ly/2AjASx1

Data on Turkish bank loans are now basically available through all of Q4 (they go to Dec. 21) and show a contraction in lending in Q4 that is bigger than in Q3, with the contraction driven by Lira-denominated lending (blue).

https://twitter.com/RobinBrooksIIF/status/1079011660222816257

Parliament warns Iran might get hyperinflation by end of March 2019

http://bit.ly/2TcAUxQ

Volatile financial markets and softer economic data has led Goldman Sachs to trim its expectations for growth in 2019

http://bit.ly/2VlZEp8

Tech is not an Oligopoly—but these two other industries Are

http://bit.ly/2Rp7O0Z

The Economics and Politics of Revoking NAFTA ["districts that voted more for Trump would on average experience greater real wage reductions if NAFTA is revoked."]

http://bit.ly/2QWRc1m

Would you approve of this economic system?

http://bit.ly/2SnozXH

Does climate action destroy jobs? An assessment of the employment implications of the 2‐degree goal.

http://bit.ly/2Apgk6m

Universal Basic Income Is Easier Than It Looks

http://bit.ly/2R19K0x

The Great Recession inspired minimalism in clothes, homes, and branding

http://bit.ly/2SpV5bG

India’s missing middle class

https://econ.st/2EVS0Mt

When Seattle raised its minimum wage to $15/hr, an oft quote study declared it would cost jobs and devastate micro economies. That didn't happen in fact, employment in food services and drinking establishments has soared. Now the authors of that study are scrambling to explain why.

https://bloom.bg/2SlbPk9

At long last, 11-member Pacific trade deal takes effect

http://bit.ly/2BNE7Nr

Twelve leading economists on the research that shaped our world in 2018

http://bit.ly/2GF2h2a