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On May 27, Biden and then-House speaker Kevin McCarthy struck a deal to increase the debt-ceiling but cap federal spending; [14] the resulting bill, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, passed the House on May 31 and the Senate on June 1. [15] Biden signed it into law on June 3, bringing the crisis to an end. [16]
The 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded to the American economist Claudia Goldin (born 1946) "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes." [2] [3] [4] At age 77, she became the third woman to have won the economics Nobel, which was first awarded in 1969, and the first woman to win the award solo.
The first prize in economics was awarded in 1969 to Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes". [32] Three women have received the prize: Elinor Ostrom, who won in 2009, Esther Duflo, who won in 2019, [33] and Claudia Goldin, who won in 2023. Goldin was the first ...
[167] 2023 was the worst year for US home sales since 1995. [168] Despite gloom numbers, the US defied recession fears with 3.3% growth in the fourth quarter. [169] [170] As of August 2023, there has been no evidence that the Inflation Reduction Act increased or decreased inflation. [171]
In June 2018, Bateman attended the Gonville and Caius College end of term supervisor dinner wearing a see through body suit, with the words "my body my choice" written on her body. [11] Bateman is an advocate of the recognition by economists of the economic value of the sex trade and the right of women to earn their living by prostitution.
In 2011 she received her Masters in Science in Human Geography Research from the London School of Economics and got her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. [3] She was also a visiting student at the UC Berkeley Center for Equitable Growth from 2016 to 2017.
In June 2015, students across the United Kingdom who had taken an Edexcel GCSE Maths paper expressed anger and confusion over questions that "did not make sense" and were "ridiculous", mocking the exam on Twitter. [13] [14] [15] On a Sky News segment, presenter Adam Boulton answered one of the paper's 'hardest' questions with a former maths ...
The trade deficit for the same month dropped from ₹ 469 billion (equivalent to ₹ 1.2 trillion or US$14 billion in 2023) in 2009 to ₹ 401 billion (equivalent to ₹ 900 billion or US$11 billion in 2023) in 2010. [355] India is a founding-member of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the WTO.