Topher Grace returning to network TV for first time since That 70s Show in ABC sitcom Home Economics

Topher Grace returning to network TV for first time since That 70s Show in new ABC sitcom Home Economics By Rachel Mcgrath For Dailymail.com Published: 04:20 GMT, 9 December 2020 | Updated: 04:20 GMT, 9 December 2020 He played Eric Forman on Fox’s That 70s Show from 1998 to 2005. And on Tuesday, Topher Grace … Read more

Majority of Britons ‘lack a basic understanding’ of economics

The British public’s grasp of broader economics is ‘generally very weak,’ according to a study which quizzed people on terms such as GDP and deficit.  Less than half of those tested understood that GDP related to the size of the economy and dismissed the concept as ‘economic jargon’. Personal experience was also found to breed … Read more

Ministers ‘plot foreign aid law change’ as Scots Tory Ruth Davidson brands it ‘poor economics’ 

Ministers could change the law to cut Britain’s foreign aid budget as part of sweeping economic reforms. The current rate of 0.7 per cent of GDP was enshrined in law by the Coalition government in 2015, but the current administration wants to cut it to 0.5 per cent. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to outline … Read more

Two Stanford University professors win Nobel Prize for economics

Two American professors have been awarded the Nobel Prize for economics for improving the theory of how auctions work and inventing new and better auction formats that are now woven into many parts of the economy.   Paul R. Milgrom, 72, and Robert B. Wilson, 83, were awarded the prestigious prize on Monday as the winners … Read more

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Does Boris have a grip on Covid economics?

RUTH SUNDERLAND: One hopes that alongside his medical advisers, PM Boris Johnson is also listening to those at the sharp end of the economic emergency The Big Four banks have lent like there is no tomorrow to keep their customers afloat  Joblessness could be be worse than the Boys from the Black Stuff era of … Read more