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On the move: Economist gives mid-year view of Houston real estate market
2015-06-05 04:26:51| Real Estate - Topix.net
Is Houston headed into a more normalized real estate market as predicted at the beginning of the year? According to Ted C. Jones , chief economist for Stewart Title, that is not likely to happen by year-end. The Houston Association of Realtors ' most recent MLS report stated that Houston's housing inventory for April was at a 2.9-months supply.
Crop adjustments may lessen climate change's econ effects, economist says
2015-06-04 13:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: If countries and farmers make adjustments in what crops they grow and where, then the effects of climate change on the global economy may not be as severe as feared, a Stanford economist says. Dave Donaldson, an associate professor of economics, wrote in a new policy brief for the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research that because of agriculture's small share in total gross domestic product for nations around the world, the expected impact on global GDP could be considerably smaller if...
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World leaders missed chance to tackle climate change, says economist
2015-05-25 18:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: World leaders missed the perfect opportunity to tackle climate change during the global economic crisis, according to the influential economist and academic Lord Stern. The author of the seminal 2006 Stern review on the economics of climate change also criticised what he called a strange and anti-science wing of the Conservative party for putting the brakes on their leaders making progress on the issue in the UK. Stern told an audience at the Hay festival the economic and technological conditions...
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Economist Jim O'Neill joins Treasury
2015-05-14 18:51:49| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Jim O'Neill, the economist who coined the term 'BRIC' and a retiring Goldman Sachs Asset Management chairman, is to become a key figure in the UK Treasury.
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Economist disputes rising grain demand predictions
2015-05-01 02:35:37| Agriculture - Topix.net
Farmers have been told repeatedly that the rapidly expanding global middle class will generate unrelenting demand for their products, but that may not be the case.a © "When it comes to agriculture, we don't see much growth in demand," John Baffes, senior economist with the World Bank, told delegates at-tending the Feeding the Global Middle Class conference.a © That flies in the face of the mantra trotted out at hundreds of other conferences that says people are going to eat more meat as they enter the middle class, resulting in greater grain consumption because it takes 6.5 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of meat.a © Agriculture industry officials are excited because the global middle class is expected to grow by three billion people between 1990 and 2025.
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