Author: CreativeDeduction

On an otherwise ordinary school day in 1967, Ron Jones, a young social studies teacher in Palo Alto, California, put his 10th grade students through an [...]

As most of the Western world is in strict lockdown to fight Coronavirus, those who are sceptical about the policy of lockdown find it hard to be heard. [...]

A decade after the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) and bailouts are once again on the political agenda. Back then, banks all over the world were supplied with [...]

‘It’s a war,’ said President Trump, when describing the fight against the Coronavirus, labelling himself a ‘war-time President’. Sure enough, with a [...]

In health economics, a quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) is a generic measure of the burden of disease, capturing both the quality and the quantity of life [...]

Coronavirus has left economies across the world in suspended animation as governments attempt to contain the spread of the virus by pursuing draconian [...]

The UK is in lockdown. In spite of his initial instinct to try to preserve civil liberties, Boris Johnson surrendered to the pressure and turned his country [...]

This week, US President Donald Trump seemingly caved in to pressure from failing airplane manufacturer Boeing Inc. and others, who have been lobbying for [...]

Last week, in a landmark British legal case brought by environmental charities, Friends of the Earth and Plan B Earth, a judge ruled that the planned [...]

On 1st July 2019 the US economic expansion, which started in the wake of the global financial crisis in June 2009, entered its 121st month and thereby [...]