Bitcoin, wage stagnation, and geopolitics: Alicia Sasser Modestino, a labor market expert, describes what big economic stories and ideas that she is watching for over the new year.
Bitcoin’s bubble could burst in 2018, according to Northeastern associate professor Alicia Sasser Modestino, a labor market expert in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities. “For many economists,” she says, “the question is not whether the bubble will burst but when.” Here’s what else she foresees for the economy in the new year.