Why golf is in decline in America: The Economist explainsGolf coursesGolf[...]golf has become harder to play. Since the 1990s golf-course designers have taken to building longer, tougher courses in order to put golfers and their equipment to the test.Economist...
Being the largest economy in the world, the United States is also the most economically polarized among Western countries. And in the post-COVID era where inflation is stubbornly high, America seems to be powerless in the face of the fact that the rich are getting richer while the poor are...
The "real" answer is almost certainly a combination of these factors, rather than one of them to the exclusion of the rest. But a new paper adds a surprising variable to the mix. What if the decline of crime in America started with the decline of cash?
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Google-search the phrase “America is getting worse,” and you’ll get almost 80 million results; pages upon pages of articles dissecting every aspect of life in our country. The conclusion of many: Not only are we in rapid decline, but the negatives are either “unprecedente...
Why productivity growth is declining in advanced economies Two waves have dragged down productivity growth by 1.9 percentage points on average across countries since the mid-2000s (Exhibit 3). The waning of a boom that began in the 1990s with the first information and communications technology (IC...
"But it's1important to remember this is not about the technology itself, it's about how it is used." says Cpsychologist Christine Riley of Intel, one of the study's sponsors(导者)."It really points to the need for considering social factors in terms of(就 而言)how you design ...
Why is it called the Potsdam Conference? Why did Otto Von Bismarck call the Berlin Conference? Why is the Berlin important to world history? Why was the Berlin Wall important to the Cold War? Why did Reagan give the Berlin Wall speech?
But Hollywood's creative slump is only part of the picture. Industry insiders point to another force hastening its fall in China: the long shadow of Washington's aggressive tariff policy and its downstream effects on public sentiment. Film is part of the broader U.S. services sector, where ...
Washoe’s move toward the Democrats in recent election cycles has helped keep Nevada a blue state most of the time, but it’s been close enough to keep Republican hopes alive. “Washoe is the bellwether – the only purple county in the state,” says Jeremy Gelman, a University of ...