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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
- Adam Davidson
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#Gap
#Skills
#So-Called
#Us
Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.
- Adam Davidson
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#Economic
#Growth
#Life
#Way
Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
- Adam Davidson
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#Countries
#Happiness
#Most
#Rich
Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
- Adam Davidson
#Economists
#Happiness
#Measure
#Through
There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than their own should not even be discussed. I find that frustrating. There is no intellectual progress without considering lots and lots of different views.
- Adam Davidson
#Economics
#End
#Find
#People
#Progress
When you cover the economy as a reporter, there's one part of the job that is always easy: finding economists who disagree.
- Adam Davidson
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#Easy
#Economists
#Job
#Reporter
To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
- Adam Davidson
#Attract
#More
#Offer
#Resource
#Simply
Hating Wall Street is an American tradition that dates back even to the days when Thomas Jefferson cursed that money lover Alexander Hamilton. And for centuries, the complaints about it have largely stayed the same: 'It does nothing! It creates chaos! It's a parasite that sucks hardworking Americans dry!'
- Adam Davidson
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#Chaos
#Money
#Nothing
#Street
What we want as an economy is companies and people, you know, working hard to come up with creative ways to be more productive. We don't want companies and people working hard to lobby government for special tax cuts.
- Adam Davidson
#Government
#Hard
#Know
#More
#People
Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
- Adam Davidson
#Bridge
#Building
#Happiness
#Well-Being
The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
- Adam Davidson
#Ideas
#Live
#Open
#People
#World
The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
- Adam Davidson
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#Middle Class
#Poor
#Rich
Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school.
- Adam Davidson
#Mind
#News
#School
#Simple
#Stay
Economics is all about consumption. People either spend money now or they use financial instruments - like bonds, stocks and savings accounts - so they can spend more later.
- Adam Davidson
#Economics
#Financial
#Money
#Now
#People
I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.
- Adam Davidson
#Culture
#Distance
#Parenting
#Try
#Wife
Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.
- Adam Davidson
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#Culture
#Day
#Thanksgiving
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