NewsHour’s Patchwork Nation reported earlier this year on Laredo, Texas’s lone bookstore shutting down. Libraries are now also feeling the pinch of recent municipal cutbacks around the country. In Florida, state funding for libraries was just cut entirely, and in other states, like California, fines are increasing and opening hours are shortening. Libraries closing mean [...]
It’s Oscar weekend, but in the world of social media, a set of honors for a more prolific crowd went out this week – the Shorty Awards, which praise the best Twitterers on the planet. Some of the most impressive are from the world of finance, who’ve had some success in explaining the economic crisis [...]
Grammys, Golden Globes, Oscars. It’s awards season in Hollywood, but entertainment isn’t the only industry getting in on the act. The newly established Dynamite Prize is an effort to be to the global economy what the Razzies are to film. Marketplace’s Scott Jagow reports the Dynamite would go to the economists who “contributed the most [...]
Back in December, we featured the premiere of a rap showdown between economy theorists John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek. The lastest installment continues the feud, and comes to us via Paul Solman at the NewsHour.
PBS NewsHour’s Paul Solman profiles economist Russ Roberts and Spike TV producer John Papola’s upcoming rap video featuring a rhyme-off pitting John Maynard Keynes against F.A. Hayek. NPR’s Planet Money blog explains.
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