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| Jul 20, 2022 | The Credit Crunch Is Not the End of Crypto Lending | Tell me if you’ve heard this story before. A vast new market opens up, and an investment and credit boom soon follows. Real wealth is created alongside a speculative excess. Banks spring up all over to extend credit to market participants.
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| Jun 30, 2022 | Why America Is Still The Land Of Opportunity For Immigrant Entrepreneurs (And Why We Should Thank Them) | As we approach the Fourth of July holiday, it is important to remember that this country was founded on pursuit of freedom. On July 2, 1776, Congress voted to dissolve the connection between the Colonies and Britain, declaring them to be fr... |
| May 27, 2022 | In the last week, Putin became a one-man wage-price spiral and held the world’s food supply to ransom | Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.
Russia’s inflation problem is getting out of hand, and the world’s food supply problem is also worsening, as the w... |
| May 10, 2022 | How Windfall Profits Have Supercharged Food Inflation | Food inflation is being juiced by windfall profits. getty |
| May 7, 2022 | Black jockeys once dominated the Kentucky Derby. Why is it so rare to see them today? | Voices of Color Black jockeys once dominated the Kentucky Derby. Why is it so rare to see them today?
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| Apr 26, 2022 | Opinion: Above all else, virtual meetings should endure in the new normal | By now, you’ve probably heard the joke that virtual meetings are basically modern seances:
“Kathleen, are you here?”
“Make a sound if you can hear us!”
“Is anyone else with you?”
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| Apr 15, 2022 | Xi’s Shanghai lockdown and Putin’s Ukraine invasion are screwing up inflation’s return to normal | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
Inflation just keeps going up.
The U.S. inflation rate rose 8.5% in March, with the prices of food, gas, a... |
| Mar 18, 2022 | The Fed Should Stop Targeting Prices | Blind businessman holding a dart. getty |
| Mar 16, 2022 | Gas prices are already expected to top $5 a gallon, but experts lay out a scenario that could be much worse | Never miss a story: Follow your favorite topics and authors to get a personalized email with the journalism that matters most to you.
Gasoline prices, already soaring following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, may climb even higher during the ... |
| Mar 6, 2022 | Школа уходит в минус | 73K 2 10 мин. ...
По данным ЮНЕСКО, в период пандемии коронавируса школы закрылись в 192 странах. На дистанционке, без очных уроков оказались 1,5 млрд школьников. В США дети просидели дома в общей сложности полтора года, в Канаде — год. Рос... |
| Feb 13, 2022 | The Government Is Confusing Values And Science In Climate Policy | Scientists studying polio vaccine in undated photo circa 1950s.Bettmann Archive |
| Feb 7, 2022 | World Bank : Making climate policies work for firms | The recent COP26 summit in Glasgow brought together coalitions and alliance that vowed to act on climate change by putting into effect the Paris Accord. A crucial part of this commitment is to implement policies that rectify the carbon pric... |
| Feb 7, 2022 | COVID-19 live updates: Alberta reports 39 deaths over last three days; Kenney to announce path to easing restrictions; WestJet cancels flights citing the Omicron variant | With COVID-19 news changing every day, we have created this file to keep you up-to-date on all the latest stories and information in and around Edmonton. Are you experiencing COVID-19 symptoms?
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| Feb 2, 2022 | Working from home and corporate real estate | Post n°254 Working from home and corporate real estate
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| Jan 19, 2022 | What we've been reading about the services sector and economic transformation | This blog is based on the December 2021 edition of the Knowledge4Jobs newsletter, curated by the World Bank's Jobs Group and Labor and Skills Global Solutions Group. Click here to sign up for the Knowledge4Jobs newsletter.
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| Dec 20, 2021 | Conducting monetary policy in an interconnected world | Post n°247 Conducting monetary policy in an interconnected world
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| Dec 13, 2021 | The Allianz Ways of Working: Shaping the future of work | In August 2021, Allianz rolled out a set of Global Minimum Standards for its new Ways of Working (WOW) applicable to Allianz companies Group-wide. Flexibility, collaboration, and agility became the building blocks of the Allianz WOW standar... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | Competition and firm recovery post-COVID-19 in Europe and Central Asia | The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the deepest global recession since World War II. As argued by Schumpeter (1942), crises can result in "creative destruction." That is, they can play a cleansing role, by speeding up the reallocati... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | Elon Musk says civilization will crumble if more people don’t have more children — and his comments shine light on a heated demographic debate | Elon Musk is sounding the alarm on the declining birth rate. Pool
Elon Musk recently said the declining birth rate is one of the biggest risks to civilization.
Experts have worried that the pandemic “baby bust” could result in an ageing pop... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Pancontinental Resources : The PUC Report - December 2021 | TSXV: PUC/ OTCQB: PUCCF
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| Nov 16, 2021 | (Some of) The macroeconomics of working from home | John Lewis
Increased working from home (WFH) for public health reasons during the pandemic has spawned a debate about whether this shift might become permanent. In this post, I try to sketch out some of the (macro) economics of a longer-run... |
| Nov 9, 2021 | Did the Covid-19 local lockdowns reduce business activity in the UK? | James Hurley and Danny Walker
In 2020 governments around the world responded to Covid-19 (Covid) by introducing lockdown measures that were designed to slow the spread of the virus. Business activity fell materially. But it is difficult to ... |
| Nov 1, 2021 | Principled data access: building public-private data partnerships for better official statistics | Email
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| Oct 12, 2021 | Perpetual debt is already here | Pundits worldwide are debating what to do with all the public debt accumulated since the global financial crisis (GFC) and during the pandemic. The most extreme have called for central banks, which are engaged in fiscal quantitative easing ... |
| Sep 27, 2021 | The danger of collateralised loan obligations to global financial markets | At the heart of the global financial crisis of 2007-09 was an obscure credit derivative called the collateralised debt obligation (CDO). CDOs were financial products based on debts – most notoriously, residential mortgages –which were sold ... |
| Sep 17, 2021 | "Slack, bottlenecks, and post-pandemic inflation" - Remarks by Governor Gabriel Makhlouf at the Dublin Economics Workshop | 'Slack, bottlenecks, and post-pandemic inflation' - Remarks by Governor Gabriel Makhlouf at the Dublin Economics Workshop
17 September 2021Speech Remarks by Governor Gabriel Makhlouf at the Dublin Economics Workshop
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| Sep 13, 2021 | High time the obsession with GDP stops! | In 1937, Simon Kuznets, an economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research, presented the original formulation of GDP in his report to the U.S. Congress titled “National Income, 1929-35”, and the rest is history. Until the birth of th... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Fintech is transforming the world’s oldest asset class: Farmland | Artem Milinchuk Contributor
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Artem Milinchuk is the founder and CEO of FarmTogether, a fintech platform channeling funding into natural assets, starting with U.S. farmland.
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| Aug 25, 2021 | Why Businesses Are Pivotal For Global Development | CEO of Smartlink Communications. Global analyst, consultant and trainer, passionate about leadership, global communications and competition. |
| Aug 10, 2021 | Volume of foreign exchange trading helps predict returns on currency trading, says study | Volume of foreign exchange trading helps predict returns on currency trading, says study
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Foreign exchange volume helps predict the following day’s returns, finds study co-authored by Professor Lucio Sarno of Cambridge Judge Busin... |
| Jul 29, 2021 | 'Wolf of Wall Street' Jordan Belfort says 'massive' regulation of crypto would lead to mainstream adoption and let bitcoin and ethereum soar | Jordan Belfort, the trader known as "The Wolf of Wall Street," called for "massive" regulation of crypto in an interview.
Belfort also doubled down on his long-time criticism of Tether as a scam.
Belfort criticized unrea... |
| Jul 28, 2021 | ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Jordan Belfort says ‘massive’ regulation of crypto would lead to mainstream adoption and let bitcoin and ethereum soar | Jordan Belfort, the trader known as “The Wolf of Wall Street,” called for “massive” regulation of crypto in an interview.
Belfort also doubled down on his long-time criticism of Tether as a scam.
Belfort criticized unrealistic price targets... |
| Jul 20, 2021 | Challenges And Opportunities For Emerging Market Business Leaders | CEO of Smartlink Communications. Global analyst, consultant and trainer, passionate about leadership, global communications and competition. |
| Jul 12, 2021 | Is WFH helping or hindering productivity? We need to find out | Source: Unsplash/Floriane Vita
Australia has a major productivity problem. As the government’s recent intergenerational report says, achieving the report’s assumption of 1.5% annual growth “will require an improvement over recent performanc... |
| Jul 6, 2021 | Unemployment risk, liquidity traps and monetary policy | Dario Bonciani and Joonseok Oh
The Global Financial Crisis in 2008 caused a significant and persistent increase in unemployment rates across major advanced economies. The worsening in labour market conditions increased uncertainty about job... |
| Jul 2, 2021 | Covid-19 briefing: working from home and worker productivity | John Lewis, Andrea Šiško and Misa Tanaka
The Covid pandemic has led to a large enforced shift towards working from home (WFH) as a result of 'stay-at-home' policies in many countries. This led to a resurgence in interest in, and new reignit... |
| Jul 2, 2021 | Does a firm's financial condition matter in the fight against the ongoing pandemic? | Email
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| May 21, 2021 | Technology and Finance: How Trading Has Changed Over the Past Decades | Patrick Jones, Tech Times 21 May 2021, 09:05 am
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The past few decades were revolutionary in terms of the changes that happened in technology and finance. This transformation has made a significant impact on trading and tra... |
| May 18, 2021 | Corporate zombification: post-pandemic risks in the euro area | Corporate zombification: post-pandemic risks in the euro area
Tobias Helmersson, Luca Mingarelli, Benjamin Mosk, Allegra Pietsch, Beatrice Ravanetti, Tamarah Shakir and Jonas Wendelborn[1]
Policy measures aimed at supporting corporates and ... |
| Apr 20, 2021 | Bitcoin? We Want Britcoin! | The Six Key Drivers for Digital Currency |
| Apr 8, 2021 | SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
Salesforce com : A Patchwork Rebound Awaits Businesses Amid Continued Uncertainty | [®Victor Torres/Stocksy United]
Apr 07, 202110 min read
Peter Schwartz and Mick Costigan contributed to this article.
After a month-long drop in global COVID-19 cases earlier this year, cases have risen 66% since February. We now face a sev... |
| Apr 6, 2021 | External sovereign debt restructurings: Delay and replay | Today, more than half of low-income countries eligible for relief under the Debt Service Suspension Initiative (DSSI) are either in debt distress or at high risk. Several emerging markets have either recently restructured (Argentina and Ecu... |
| Feb 26, 2021 | Cloudy with a chance of tariffs: the impact of policy uncertainty on the global economy | Ed Manuel, Alice Pugh, Anina Thiel, Tugrul Vehbi and Seb Vismara
Average tariffs on goods traded between the US and China increased by 15 percentage points from early 2018 to 2019. By making it more costly to buy goods from abroad, higher t... |
| Feb 25, 2021 | Women Are Leaving The Job Market In Droves. What Is Needed To Help Them Return? | Woman working from home and helping daughter with school workgetty |
| Feb 17, 2021 | Helping Young Premier League Soccer Players Navigate Social Media Has Never Been More Important | SWANSEA, WALES - FEBRUARY 10: Yan Dhanda of Swansea City in action during The Emirates FA Cup Fifth ... [+] Round match between Swansea City and Manchester City at the Liberty Stadium on February 10, 2021 in Swansea, Wales. Sporting stadium... |
| Feb 17, 2021 | Sports In The Age Of Covid-19: How It Has Had To Adapt | Ground staff disinfect a Premier League football before the English Premier League football match ... [+] between Newcastle United and Leeds United at St James' Park in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, north east England on January 26, 2021. (Photo by ... |
| Feb 16, 2021 | First There Was WFH—Now It’s WFA | Photo Illustration by Filip Radwanski /SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images |
| Feb 4, 2021 | Moedas digitais de governos correm sério risco de fracassar, alertam economistas | As autoridades financeiras de muitos países ao redor do mundo estão estudando e experimentando as chamadas CBDCs, moedas digitais de bancos centrais. Contudo, segundo os economistas Peter Bofinger e Thomas Hass, esse tipo de criptomoeda cor... |
| Feb 3, 2021 | Will the Reserve Bank turn the cash rate negative? And what will happen if it does? | Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe.
Few people expected the Reserve Bank to adjust its cash rate at its first meeting of the year on Tuesday, and for good reason.
It has been saying loudly that it is “not expecting to increase the cash rate ... |
| Feb 3, 2021 | Automation Won’t Take All The Manufacturing Jobs – And Covid Proves It. Here’s How | Spare part delivery drone at garage storage in leading automotive car service center for delivering ... [+] mechanical shipping component part assembling to customer. Modern innovative technology and gadgetgetty |
| Feb 2, 2021 | Equity In The Workplace Requires Equity In Caregiving | Actor Colin Farrell is not just a celebrity. Perhaps more importantly, he is a loving caregiver to ... [+] his two sons.Getty Images |
| Jan 7, 2021 | Why central banks need new tools for dealing with market dysfunction - speech by Andrew Hauser | From Lender of Last Resort to Market Maker of Last Resort via the dash for cash: why central banks need new tools for dealing with market dysfunction
Speech given by
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| Dec 30, 2020 | CBDCs: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? | In 1987, Nobel laureate James Tobin proposed the concept of a retail central bank digital currency. The idea was that central banks should create a public payments “medium with the convenience of deposits and the safety of currency.”
It was... |
| Dec 28, 2020 | Биткоин по $27 000: Новый финансовый порядок? | Пандемия COVID-19, как лакмусовая бумажка, продемонстрировала все слабые места общества, и традиционная финансовая система стала одним из них. Где тонко, там и рвется – и весь мир сейчас находится на пороге величайшего экономического кризис... |
| Nov 23, 2020 | The vaccine breakthroughs at Pfizer and Moderna are the latest examples of how immigrants have been driving billions in American innovation for decades | Behind both Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine and the potential Moderna vaccine are a group of incredible scientists, biotech CEOs, and venture capitalists funding the effort – many of whom are immigrants.
Business Insider spoke with Mode... |
| Nov 19, 2020 | Grid Modernization: We Must Rebuild Our Innovation Engine | The present grid paradigm has reached its sundownAlexander Popov via Unsplash |
| Oct 26, 2020 | The Big Choices When Designing Central Bank Digital Currencies | The increased interest in central bank digital currency (CBDC) has led to a surge in ideas and research about the topic, so much so that it’s all but impossible to keep up with everything that’s been published lately. All this information b... |
| Oct 26, 2020 | Is home working good for you? - speech by Andy Haldane | Is Home Working Good For You?
Speech given by Andy Haldane
Chief Economist and Member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)
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| Oct 23, 2020 | Money Reimagined: 'They Starve': The Ugly Side of the US' KYC-AML Obsession | At a 2015 blockchain event, Nairobi-based bitcoin pioneer Elizabeth Rossiello answered an audience question about the impact on Somalians of a recent shutdown in remittance inflows after the U.S. government had labeled the country a “high-r... |
| Oct 20, 2020 | What Digital Banks Can Do To Help Narrow The Racial Wealth Gap | Co-Founder and CEO of Varo Money, industry executive turned disruptor, reinventing banking. |
| Oct 19, 2020 | Deglobalisation, disrupted education and debt: economic policy challenges following the pandemic Speech at Harvard University | 1 Introduction
2 The COVID-19 crisis and the economic policy response
3 Potential long-term ramifications of the crisis
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| Oct 10, 2020 | The Corporate Bond Market Crises and the Government Response | October 07, 2020 The Corporate Bond Market Crises and the Government Response
Steven Sharpe and Alex Zhou†
The Covid-19 pandemic led to acute stress in the global economy and, as a consequence, many parts of the global financial system. In ... |
| Oct 6, 2020 | U.S. Congress calls for antitrust reforms to limit powers of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google | Members of Congress investigating the activity of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google say antitrust law reform is needed to safeguard democracy and “ensure that our economy remains vibrant and open in the digital age.” The findings come fro... |
| Oct 6, 2020 | U.S. Congress calls for antitrust reforms to limit powers of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Members of Congress investigating the activity of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google say antitrust law reform is needed to safeguard d... |
| Sep 30, 2020 | Monetary Policy for all? Inequality and the Conduct of Monetary Policy | By Niels-Jakob Hansen, Alessandro Lin, and Rui C. Mano
Inequality in both advanced economies and emerging markets has been on the rise in recent decades. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated and raised awareness of disparities between the ... |
| Sep 25, 2020 | Building Supply Chain Resilience For A Post-Covid-19 World | As President of Innover, Amit has responsibility for all aspects of the company’s financial, growth, Product & Service strategy & execution. |
| Sep 21, 2020 | China's path to normalisation in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic | Prepared by Alexander Al-Haschimi, Apostolos Apostolou and Martino Ricci
This article will trace the decline and subsequent recovery of China's economy following the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). It employs high-frequency data to ... |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Covid-19 briefing: heterogeneous impacts of the pandemic | Andrea Šiško
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spawned a literature analysing its impact on macroeconomic aggregates. But there's also been work that seeks to look at heterogeneity of impacts across industries, households and individuals. T... |
| Jul 25, 2020 | Big Tech: Time For A ‘New Platform Deal’? | For most of us, the COVID-19 crisis has been truly awful. But for Big Tech, it’s actually been ... [+] pretty good, if markets are anything to go byShutterstock |
| Jul 6, 2020 | 10 Financial Lessons Tech Entrepreneurs Should Learn | CEO and Founder of QA Madness, overseeing tech startups and seasoned players` business processes and software quality assurance globally. |
| Jun 29, 2020 | Making the case for macroprudential tools for the market-based finance sector: lessons from COVID-19 - Governor Gabriel Makhlouf | Making the case for macroprudential tools for the market-based finance sector: lessons from COVID-19 - Governor Gabriel Makhlouf
29 June 2020Speech Remarks delivered to Bruegel online event on 'The need for market-based finance after COVID-... |
| Jun 26, 2020 | Credit Card Debt And False Hope In Covid-19 Recession | IRVINE, CA - MARCH 30: Credit cards are cut in half during a shreading ceremony at Christ Our ... [+] Redeemer Church in Irvine. (Photo by Mindy Schauer/Digital First Media/Orange County Register via Getty Images)MediaNews Group via Getty I... |
| Jun 25, 2020 | George Floyd, Robert E. Lee, BLM Global – And The Economics Of Diversity | |
| May 8, 2020 | Money Reimagined: Fed Spending Is Good for Asset Prices Like Bitcoin, But Lousy For Main Street | In early March 2012, three years after the biggest financial disruption in 80 years, with 8% of the U.S. workforce unemployed, with four million American homes foreclosed and with Europe tearing itself apart over fiscal austerity measures t... |
| May 3, 2020 | COVID and Cooperation: The Latest Canary in the Coal Mine | Editor’s Note: The COVID-19 crisis is a global one, and for all the horror stories from Italy, the United States, and other wealthy countries, the developing world is likely to be hit far harder. Containing, mitigating and curing the diseas... |
| Apr 27, 2020 | More USDT Minted by Tether Treasury. Will It Surpass XRP? | Stablecoin issuer Tether has minted 120 mln more USDT tokens for replenishing its inventory, according to the company’s CTO Paolo Ardoino.
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 120,000,000 #USDT (121,137,048 USD) minted at Tether Treasury
Tx: https://t.co/QK... |
| Apr 1, 2020 | Centre For Economic Policy Research COVID-19 Webinar | LBS's Professor Richard Portes and Deutsche Bank's Torsten Slok.London Business School / Deutsche Bank |
| Mar 16, 2020 | Congress' coronavirus relief bill still doesn't actually guarantee paid sick leave for most American workers | Advertisement
House Democrats touted paid sick leave as a centerpiece of their emergency legislation last week, but it doesn't actually cover most American workers.
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| Mar 5, 2020 | Paid sick leave could help prevent the spread of coronavirus - but 18 states have barred local governments from implementing it | Advertisement
Paid sick leave has generated huge attention over the past week as more cases of coronavirus are diagnosed in the US.
But 25% of American workers - or 32 million people - don't have access to paid sick leave from their employe... |
| Dec 3, 2019 | Lower Interest Rates And The Long-Term Outlook For Commercial Real Estate | |
| Apr 7, 2019 | Japan, the unlikely hero of global data governance | We’re currently witnessing a paradox when it comes to data privacy and open commerce. China and Russia are walling themselves off. For protectionist and national security reasons, they are putting up barriers to global engagement and commer... |
| Apr 7, 2019 | Japan, the unlikely hero of global data governance | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
We’re currently witnessing a paradox when it come... |
| Jun 5, 2018 | Study Shows That Wartime Program To Abolish Copyright On German Science Books Brought Significant Benefits To US | As Techdirt readers know, there is a ratchet effect that means copyright always gets longer and stronger. As well as being inherently unfair — why must the public always lose out when copyright law is changed? — there’s another unfortunate ... |
| May 9, 2018 | Switzerland is about to vote on whether to send its financial system back to the dark ages in a referendum to ban banks from creating money | AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam
A Swiss soccer fan cheers during the World Cup group H soccer match between Spain and Switzerland at the stadium in Durban, South Africa, Wednesday, June 16, 2010.
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| Sep 21, 2017 | Global debt levels pose risk of another financial crisis | By Steve Keen, Kingston University
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.”
This phrase may have religious roots, but there is no better way to describe the dominant sect in economics today than as wilfully blind. A decade after... |
| Aug 6, 2017 | Beyond the boring blockchain bubble | The silly season continues. Speculators are piling into the cryptocurrency space in the hopes of–sometimes very literally–making money fast. As I write this Ethereum’s value has halved since June but is still 20x since January. Litecoin is ... |
| Aug 3, 2017 | Trump's plan to slash post-crisis Wall Street rules puts America at risk | Reuters
U.S. National Economic Director Gary Cohn (L) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin end their briefing after unveiling the Trump administration's tax reform proposal in the White House briefing room in Washington, U.S, April 26, 201... |
| Jan 27, 2017 | Why Building a Diverse Workforce Requires Computer Science Mandates in Schools | In the Silicon Valley, they call it the “3 percent problem.” African-Americans and Latino/Hispanics make up a tiny fraction of the overwhelmingly white, male-dominated workforce of major technology companies. No leader of the top 10 U.S.-ba... |
| Jan 24, 2017 | Global productivity is slowing down: Three reasons why | There is a wide recognition by economists and policy-makers that “the large differences in income per capita observed across countries mostly reflect differences in labour productivity”.
Further, “productivity is expected to be the main dri... |
| Jan 24, 2017 | Global productivity is slowing down: Three possible explanations | By Roy Green, University of Technology Sydney and Renu Agarwal, University of Technology Sydney
There is a wide recognition by economists and policy-makers that “the large differences in income per capita observed across countries mostly re... |
| Dec 12, 2016 | New Research Argues it's Life That Makes Us Sad, Not Debt | Image via Flickr user Terry Madeley
According to a new study released by economic policy analysts Vox, it's your failed romances, toxic friendships, and mental health that's making you more unhappy than debt. The Origins of Happiness Report... |
| Oct 28, 2016 | Want More Startups? Build a Better Safety Net
Want More Startups? Build a Better Safety Net | (Bloomberg View) -- Back in 2012, Daron Acemoglu -- an economist I follow and greatly respect -- wrote a paper along with James Robinson and Thierry Verdier claiming to explain why Scandinavian countries are (supposedly) less innovative tha... |
| Aug 28, 2016 | Elephant Chart | I came across this chart today. Maybe all of you have seen it, but I hadn’t.
It is called “the elephant chart” because the shape of the chart looks like an elephant.
It was created by Christoph Lakner and Bruno Milanovic for their book, Glo... |
| Jan 31, 2015 | "World Order," by Henry Kissinger | Published by Penguin Press (2014)
Reviewed by Ali Wyne
In over six decades as a scholar, Henry Kissinger has trained his historical depth and panoramic worldview on an ambitious range of subjects. His undergraduate honors thesis probes the ... |
| Jan 14, 2015 | IBM unveils $1bn mainframe | The z13 is the first system to make practical real-time encryption of all mobile transactions at any scale, says IBM.
Computing giant IBM has unveiled the z13 mainframe computer, which it claims is one of the most sophisticated systems yet ... |
| Nov 1, 2014 | Why Is It Bad For Tech To Eat Jobs? | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Apr 28, 2014 | Кто сидит на нашей шее, Крым как «Феррари», как нефть кормила и убивала СССР, становись богаче или умирай молодым | Максим Авербух:
Кто сидит на нашей шее
1. Беларусь. $ 10 млрд. в год.
«Только за счет льготных цен на энергоносители Республика Беларусь в 2012 году сэкономила около $10 млрд.», – сказано в статье сотрудников института, опубликованной в вед... |
| Feb 10, 2014 | Двуглавый Центробанк наступает на те же грабли, переоценен ли рубль, норма отката, капиталистическое рабство | Андрей Нальгин:
О двуглавом Центробанке
В который раз на те же грабли...
Еще в 2008 году было четкое ощущение, что у ЦБ РФ две головы, и одна из них не знает, что делает другая. Тогда, напомню, Банк России, пытаясь удержать рубль от девальв... |
| Dec 9, 2013 | ЦБ бессилен против водки и коммуналки, Европа не виновата в нашей рецессии, США не нужны маленькие банки | Максим Авербух:
Вот видишь, что твоя булочка наделала!
Путин: наша рецессия есть следствие рецессии в Европе.
ФТС: сальдо внешней торговли с развитыми странами в январе-августе 2013 года по отношению к аналогичному периоду прошлого года сок... |
