J. William Carpenter is an economist who writes financial topics. He is an author of published works for higher education and business clients. Katie Miller is a consumer financial services expert.

Researchers at China’s Guangzhou Medical and Jinan universities took both soft water and hard tap water and spiked it with three common plastics: polystyrene, polyethylene and polypropylene. When at a ...

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Jeremy Liew, 31 years old, moved to Boston from New Jersey in 2018 to study for a Ph.D. in chemistry and, he hoped, a career in the city’s bustling biotech industry. But after earning ...

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The months after the release of the June 2020 World Economic Outlook (WEO) Update have offered a glimpse of how difficult rekindling economic activity will be while the pandemic surges. During May and ...

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Climate change presents a major threat to long-term growth and prosperity, and has a direct impact on the economic wellbeing of all countries. The IMF has an important role to play in helping its ...

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