Nouriel Roubini is the cofounder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an innovative economic and geo-strategic information service and consultancy.

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Other work, collected by Circadian Information, a consultancy in Cambridge, Massachusetts, suggests people who work on shifts also suffer more ill health.

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The risks have been compounded by vertical integration, reckons Roger Longman of Windhover Information, an industry consultancy.

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"I don't think the benefit to Amazon has been that great, " said Michael Norris, a senior analyst for Simba Information, a research and consultancy company.

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As Mr Haldane points out, share prices ceased to have any information content (Accenture, a consultancy, briefly traded at one cent).

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This could cut power demand by 10-15% during peak hours, estimates Ahmad Faruqui of the Brattle Group, a consultancy more than twice the reduction likely to be achieved by just giving customers real-time information about their usage.

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