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Professor Andrew Gelman was quoted in New York Times in its The Upshot Newsletter. 

How Unlikely Is It That the Audits of Comey and McCabe Were a Coincidence? A Statistical Exploration.

Professor Jeffrey Sachs was interviewed by Kathimerini.

EU must not ‘fall blindly’ behind the US

Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History, was quoted in Financial Times.

Wage growth poses a dilemma for union-friendly Biden.

Adam Tooze, a Columbia University professor, notes in a trenchant essay on the BIS report, “technocrat who celebrates the decline of the bargaining power of organised labour because it makes inflation-control easier” looks politically naive, or blind; it risks stoking “troublesome populism”.

The trade deficit was partly to blame for the hit to GDP. But there's a silver lining.

Gross domestic product shrank by 1.4% in the first quarter of the year, hindered by two major parts of the equation — inventories and net exports . . .

. . . “What you’re really seeing when you have a big, growing trade deficit is that we’re spending more on the things that we buy from abroad,” said Columbia political economist Sharyn O’Halloran . . .