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...awful truth became apparent: three highly trained pilots had crashed a fully functional aircraft into the ocean, killing all 288 people on board, because they had become confused by what their Airbus 330’s...
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...Surge pricing: The changing of a product’s price in real time is generally unpopular, writes Tim Harford, but when a price is right, more transactions are made and trade benefits....
...Alternative reality: “Publication bias”, where information is deliberately cherry-picked or obscured, can have serious consequences, writes Tim Harford in Undercover Economist....
...Then, we’re joined by behavioural economist and friend of the podcast Tim Harford, who makes a compelling case for learning when it’s time to quit. We love hearing from you!...
...This is an audio transcript of the FT Weekend podcast episode: ‘The secret lives of MI6’s women spies’ [MUSIC PLAYING] Lilah Raptopoulos When the FT’s Helen Warrell was growing up, she was really into...
...Tim Harford’s new book is “How to Make the World Add Up” Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...Productivity lessons: Here’s the inconvenient truth: you’ll never clear all your tasks, so just do your best with the time you have, writes Tim Harford....
...Then, we’re joined by behavioural economist and friend of the podcast Tim Harford, who – just in time for your New Year's resolutions – makes a compelling case for learning when it’s time to quit....
...With objective reports from S&P Global showing that around 85 per cent of active managers of US funds focused on large capitalisation stocks underperformed the S&P 500 index over last decade, those concerns...
...That’s nearly a third of all 2021’s prize money coming from just three titles. As a franchise, however, Age of Empires speaks particularly well to the penchant for nostalgia....
...Markets outlook Equity markets in Europe were flat ahead of the release of the jobs report while contracts tracking Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 dipped slightly....
...Tim Harford considers how much anyone truly needs....
...Charley Ellis makes the case for what critics get wrong. Private equity groups are increasingly buying companies that they already own....
...Tim Harford argues we need a new kind of data infrastructure. Have we had enough of the nanny employer?...
...The central eight words of that quotation, from 1923’s A Tract on Monetary Reform, have been as widely quoted as anything he said....
...Tim Harford’s “The Next Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy” is out in paperback on August 26 Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Futures trading suggests the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite will both open about 1 per cent higher....
...Tim Harford explains how the ruling will have a stark impact on women’s lives....
...Warhol, a wild back-story and today’s art market The Andy Warhol silkscreen “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” — which sold for a record-setting $195mn at a New York auction — deserves the cliché “iconic”, but Tim Harford...
...Buoyant markets may have kept its assets under management rising until this year, but 2022’s volatility hit hard: AUM slumped by 19 per cent and several flagship funds are having bad years....
...In the wake of the pandemic and 2021’s “great resignation”, Irish writer Patrick Freyne considers generational approaches to ambition and success. The Premier League at 30 — an English success story?...
...The slide ended a four-day rally and took the S&P’s declines this year to 6.1 per cent....
...Tim Harford takes on the question of how to tax carbon emissions, proposing that the best solution is the simplest....
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