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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

economics

Signs marking the intersection of Broad and Walls Streets stand near the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)
October 2, 2024, 2:49 am
Stock markets slump, oil jumps as Iran attack sparks fear of all-out war in Mideast
Wall Street’s main indices fall in the immediate aftermath of the missile attack; tech-heavy Nasdaq dropped 1.5%
By AFP and ToI Staff
A house for sale in Caesarea, January 2023. (Arena Properties Caesarea/Rena Roberman)
August 30, 2024, 2:06 am
Homeowners opt for free real estate listings even when they lose money, says new study
In a new look at the ‘zero price effect,’ researchers from Tel Aviv University find that consumers gravitate towards an unpaid option, though it may be costlier in the long term
By Jennifer Korn
Ships dock at the Ashdod port in an undated photo. (Courtesy CC BY-2.5/File)
October 26, 2023, 1:09 am
The war with Hamas could threaten Israel’s imports
If shipping companies decide Israeli ports are too risky, the country could soon find itself running out of food
By Elisabeth Braw
Left: Sam Bankman-Fried on the cover of the 40th annual Forbes 400 ranking issue (Business Wire/ AP). Right: FTX Arena on November 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier, File)
November 18, 2022, 6:11 pm
Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried, Jewish cryptocurrency CEO, brings echoes of Bernie Madoff
After becoming a billionaire before age 30, the FTX head suffers a reversal of fortune so massive it’s setting records, decimating investors’ savings, and drawing legal questions
By Lisa Klug
Winners of the 2022 Novel Prize in Economics, Ben S. Bernanke, left, Douglas W. Diamond, center, and Philip H. Dybvig. (Nikas Elmehed/The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences)
October 10, 2022, 2:04 pm
Nobel Prize in economics given to Bernanke, 2 US-based economists for work on banks
Award goes to ex-chair of US Federal Reserve, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig for research on financial crisis; in memoir, Bernanke recalled growing up as Jewish outsider
By AP
The unrecognized villages around Ramat Hovav in southern Israel suffer from a high level of air pollution from nearby chemical evaporation ponds, December 28, 2017 (Yaniv Nadav/FLASH90)
January 26, 2022, 11:43 am
Doughnut Economics launches in Israel with call to update priorities, protect Earth
With new Hebrew website, translation of seminal book due in July, group aims to spread word about economic model that seeks to keep people from falling into the hole of deprivation
By Sue Surkes
Israeli-American economist Joshua Angrist (Video screenshot)
October 11, 2021, 1:28 pm
Israeli-American Joshua Angrist among trio to win Nobel Prize in Economics
Professor awarded prize for his work on unintended experiments; taught at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University and at Harvard before his current position at MIT
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Bitcoin Rabbi Michael Caras (photo courtesy/ via JTA) and a visual representation of Bitcoin, at the 'Bitcoin Change' shop in Tel Aviv, February 6, 2018. (Jack Guez/AFP)
July 12, 2021, 4:10 am
Beloved ‘Bitcoin Rabbi’ tends to religious, financial-minded flocks on Twitter
Michael Caras says serving as a bridge between the Jewish and cryptocurrency worlds gives him the opportunity to provide guidance to some who would never have sought it otherwise
By Leigh Cuen
Illustrative: Fishermen work in the Tapajos river in the Alter do Chao district of Santarem, Para state, Brazil, August 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, FILE)
February 2, 2021, 8:57 pm
UK Treasury-commissioned report calls for nature to be at heart of economics
Natural world should be key element in economic planning, urges Cambridge U. economist Partha Dasgupta; says growth and prosperity have ‘come at a devastating cost to nature”
By Pan Pylas
Amir Yaron, governor of the Bank of Israel, attends a press conference in Jerusalem, March 31, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 20, 2019, 11:44 pm
Bank of Israel governor wins US economics award
Amir Yaron receives biennial Stephen A. Ross Prize prize for research on calculating long-term asset pricing
By ToI Staff
The co-winners of the 2019 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (L-R) Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer (Nobel institute)
October 14, 2019, 1:27 pm
Trio win Nobel Prize in economics for work on poverty
Michael Kremer, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo honored ‘for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’; Kremer and Duflo are recent Tel Aviv U. award winners
By Agencies
Joshua Angrist (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 14, 2019, 9:55 am
Two Israelis among frontrunners for Nobel in economics
Joshua Angrist of MIT and Harvard’s Elhanan Helpman considered to be among favorites to take this year’s award, which will be announced Monday
By Helene DAUSCHY
A Lasova restaurant soup kitchen employee serves bread to the needy in Tel Aviv on September 8, 2019. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
September 11, 2019, 10:04 am
Israeli economic growth overshadows struggles of working poor
According to the National Insurance Institute, almost 1.8 million people live below poverty line
By Guillaume LAVALLÉE
A demonstration protesting rising rent rates in 2012. (Uri Lenz/Flash90)
September 8, 2019, 10:13 am
State’s inability to fix the housing crisis leaves many out in the cold
The spike in real estate prices has made millionaires out of homeowners, while renters suffer; solutions exist, but nothing scares politicians more than taxing wealthy voters
By Omer Sharvit
US conservative commentator and economic analyst Larry Kudlow speaks on the set of CNBC at the closing bell of the Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock Exchange on March 8, 2018 in New York. (AFP/Bryan R. Smith)
March 14, 2018, 9:33 pm
Larry Kudlow confirms he’s taking top US economic post
Succeeding Gary Cohn, ex-CNBC commentator says he opposes recent trade tariffs but is ‘in accord’ with Trump’s policies
By AP
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