consequences
Britishplural noun
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He recently launched Power and Consequences External link, a weekly podcast about the economy, markets, and geopolitics with fellow MIT professor and Nobel Prize-winning economist Simon Johnson.
From Barron's • Apr. 18, 2026
Appeared in the February 7, 2026, print edition as 'Lost in Epstein’s Web ruth, Consequences and the Limits of Epstein’s Web Jeffrey Epstein’s Tangled Web'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
The first signs of dementia are often found in a person’s finances, such as erratic spending and/or unpaid bills that start piling up, according to this paper, “The Financial Consequences of Undiagnosed Memory Disorders.”
From MarketWatch • Jan. 2, 2026
She is the co-editor of "War and Health: The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2025
“In low-power distance index countries,” Hofstede wrote in his classic text Culture’s Consequences: power is something of which power holders are almost ashamed and they will try to underplay.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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