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Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

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What Really Drives Long-Term Interest Rates?

Apr 29, 2022

Contrary to the neoclassical loanable funds theory, historical bond yields show Keynes was right that “convictions” anchor long-term interest rates

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African Americans in Tech: What the EEO-1 Numbers Reveal

Feb 22, 2022

EEO-1 employment data document the vast over-representation of Asian Americans and vast under-representation of African Americans at tech companies in recent years. How did this happen?

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Is the Doom of Humanity Really Inevitable? Maybe Not.

Jan 4, 2022

Evidence reveals our remote ancestors were neither brutes nor innocents, but complex beings whose experiments in living have much to teach us. Welcome news as disaster looms in every direction.