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Matthew O'Brien is an associate editor at The Atlantic covering business and economics. He has previously written for The New Republic.
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Forget Skynet, Hal, and every other dystopian tale of robot revolution -- the real machine menace isn't that we get overthrown, but rather replaced. At least some of us. That's the story Paul Krugman and Iza Kaminska of FT Alphaville have told about labor income collapsing to 60-year lows in the aftermath of the Great Recession. In other words, jobs are so scarce and pay so little, because machines are stealing them. That's great news for the people who own the… More »
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This is a story of pride, prescience, and mild panic among the economy's keepers at the eve of this generation's worst recession.Reuters.It was the end of the world as we knew it, and the Fed was feeling fine.Okay, that's not really fair. The transcript of the Federal Reserve's 2007 meetings, months before the economy entered its worst recession since the Great Depression, reveal an institution far from oblivious, with a few notable exceptions. They just didn't… More »
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