Always, but always, plot your data. Remember that data quality is at least as important as data quantity. Always ask yourself, “Do these results make economic/common sense”? Check whether your “statistically significant” results are also “numerically/economically significant”. Be sure that you know exactly what assumptions are used/needed to obtain the results relating to the properties […]
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The Rail, Maritime and Transport Union (RMT) has called further strike action as part of a long-running, bitter dispute with train operating companies over pay, job losses and cuts that would destroy the railway as we know it. The dispute has gone on for almost a year, costing the British economy northwards of £1.25 billion […]
Political messaging expert Anat Shenker-Osorio breaks down the art of reframing the debate for progressives to win.
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- by Tess Wilkinson-Ryan
#CoFi is now a thing!
Report on the first Collaborative Finance Gathering at the Commons Hub, Austria, May 22-28, 2023.
It was an honour to be asked by the Commons Hub to design a conference and I took the opportunity to bring together crypto-people with some working on more traditional complementary currency innovations. I arranged the mornings so that each one covered a different 'structure' of credit (a taxonomy I have yet to write about), namely mutual credit, mesh credit (i.e. ripple/trustlines systems), local voucher systems, and multilateral offset clearing, in which invoices are aggregated and cancelled out as far as possible.
Vladimir Putin is in a catch-22: unable to win any kind of 'victory' that he can sell to his domestic audience, while creating folklore about this 'special military operation'
Artificial intelligence has already made its way into newsrooms – what are the risks?
The G15 housing associations have been the subject of constant scandals in the past two years over the poor quality of their homes
Episode 8 for my – Podcast – Letter from The Cape – is now available. In this episode we examine the veracity of the progressive call to ‘Tax the Rich’ which proponents think will provide the government with more spending capacity to improve health and education services. We learn that there is no zero-sum game…
The UK's real problem never had anything to do with the EU – but was about the lack of capable and honest political leadership, according to the former diplomat who resigned from the Foreign Office over Brexit
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