JAKARTA, May 15 (Reuters) - The Indonesian unit of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc suspended operations at the world's second-largest copper mine on Wednesday, a source with knowledge of the matter said, after a training tunnel collapsed the previous day....

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Robot Econ Primer Robin...

Yves here There’s been a great deal of consternation over a report that found that the median Spanish and Italian households are more than three times as wealthy as the median German household. This report says that these differences aren’t what they seem to be.

By Tito Boeri, Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan. Cross...

It’s been slow in coming, but religious leaders are starting to speak out against the mechanisms and high social cost of austerity. One dramatic but ineffective effort was when the Archbishop of Cyprus offered to contribute all the church land in Cyprus to a rescue package. He also urged Cyprus to exit the eurozone :

Archbishop Chrysostomos

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Josh Rosner of Graham Fisher testifies before a subcommittee of the House Financial Services committee today on why Dodd Frank has not ended too big to fail, but also has managed to entrench the megafirms’ advantaged position.

Rosner provided Congressional testimony on this same topic in 2011, and deemed Dodd Frank’s plans for winding...

By Claude Salhani, journalist, author and political analyst based in Beirut, specializing in the Middle East, politicized Islam and terrorism. He is also the former editor of the Middle East Times and. C the former International Editor with United Press International and also ran UPI’s Terrorism & Security Desks. Cross posted from...

LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - European shares were expected to climb to a new five-year high on Wednesday, with improving macroeconomic conditions in the United States and forecast-beating results from some companies further improving sentiment. Financial spreadbetters predicted Britain's FTSE 100 would open 9 to 10 points higher, or up as much as...

A new line of research examines what happens in an office where the positions of the cubicles and walls—even the coffee pot—are all determined by data.

Can we use data about people to alter physical reality, even in real time, and improve their performance at work or in life? That is the question...