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...years after coming to Radcliffe, Madox has written articles for The Economist, the London Times and the Daily Telegraph. She’s authored eight books and won two Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the British Silver Pen Award, a Whitbread Award nomination and the Critics Circle Award for her writing...
Maddox remained in London, where she got married and eventually landed jobs at Reuters and The Economist, where she worked for about 20 years and became the House Affairs Editor...
...fact, Maddox remembers The Economist as employing more women than most papers—although she admits that this was, in part, only possible because unlike most papers, The Economist does not use bylines, and thus could disguise the fact that half the articles were written by women...
...historical percentage--are settling for less pay. The net result of the various pressures on pay: in the first three months of 2003, median weekly earnings adjusted for inflation fell 1.5%, according to the U.S. Labor Department. That's the biggest drop since 1991, according to Jared Bernstein, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a research group based in Washington. Wage erosion partly explains why the Federal Reserve Board openly frets about the threat of deflation, a downward spiral in prices that can cripple an economy by making debt repayment more difficult and encouraging consumers to wait for even...
...Greenspan recently signaled that he was prepared to cut short-term interest rates for the 13th time since January 2001 to guard against a corrosive bout of deflation, like the one Japan has endured for nearly a decade. Wage pressures and deflation "obviously go together," says Laurence Meyer, an economist and a former member of the Fed's board of governors. "When there is slackness in the economy, it puts downward pressure on wages that then passes through to the price of goods and services...