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“The Big Short”: Funny, But Misleading

Tyler O'Neil | January 20, 2016 | Economics, Politics

“The Big Short”: Funny, But Misleading

Adam McKay’s “The Big Short” achieves a surprising feat—making an economics film funny. And by funny, I mean hilarious. Nevertheless, it minimizes the true story of the 2007-2008 financial crisis by boiling everything down to corporate greed, and calling for more...

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Tyler O'Neil is the Senior Editor of PJ Media and a conservative commentator.

How Does Place Impact Opportunity?

Sara Belz | June 3, 2015 | Society

How Does Place Impact Opportunity?

We’ve known for a while now that neighborhoods matter. Jane Jacobs, in the 1960s, showed us the value of a well-planned street. William Julius Wilson brought inner-city housing to the forefront of the civil rights conversation in the 1980s. Beginning in 1990, the U.S....

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Sara Belz is a Research Analyst with the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy in the Economic Studies program at Brookings.