economist
noun
econ·o·mist
i-ˈkä-nə-mist 
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Economists are predicting rapid inflation.
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Fast-food companies have used their dominant position in the labor market to keep wages and prices excessively low, said Michael Reich, a labor economist and professor at UC Berkeley.
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Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
Wasow, the son of a Jewish economist and a Black American educator, had been thinking about how to build community on the internet for years.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
Jordan Levine, chief economist of the California Association of Realtors, also sees just two Fed rate cuts starting later this year.
—Jeff Lazerson, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024
Durante, the Tax Foundation economist, agreed that politics explains why tariffs have become a bipartisan strategy.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
But economist Dante DeAntonio of Moody’s Analytics points out that payrolls of temporary staffing firms have been declining for two years.
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
For now, economists say, the best that consumers can hope for is that prices stop going up so fast.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2024
Data released on Wednesday showed consumer prices moving in the wrong direction once again, rising 3.5% in March from a year earlier, a little hotter than the 3.4% rise economists had predicted.
—Rafael Nam, NPR, 10 Apr. 2024
According to Hayley Berg, chief economist at Hopper, while airfare remains higher than at this time in 2019, 40% of all searches for international trips this summer are to Europe, in line with last year and slightly higher than in 2019.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2024
Frank Shyong, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
Wasow, the son of a Jewish economist and a Black American educator, had been thinking about how to build community on the internet for years.
—Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2024
Jordan Levine, chief economist of the California Association of Realtors, also sees just two Fed rate cuts starting later this year.
—Jeff Lazerson, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024
Durante, the Tax Foundation economist, agreed that politics explains why tariffs have become a bipartisan strategy.
—Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
But economist Dante DeAntonio of Moody’s Analytics points out that payrolls of temporary staffing firms have been declining for two years.
—Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2024
For now, economists say, the best that consumers can hope for is that prices stop going up so fast.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 10 Apr. 2024
Data released on Wednesday showed consumer prices moving in the wrong direction once again, rising 3.5% in March from a year earlier, a little hotter than the 3.4% rise economists had predicted.
—Rafael Nam, NPR, 10 Apr. 2024
According to Hayley Berg, chief economist at Hopper, while airfare remains higher than at this time in 2019, 40% of all searches for international trips this summer are to Europe, in line with last year and slightly higher than in 2019.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Apr. 2024
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“Economist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/economist. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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