Campaigners have a second judicial review hearing in the High Court on Tuesday 21 March 2023 to challenge the Government over the immigration exemption in the Data Protection Act 2018. The ways the exemption may have been used by the Home Office and private companies working to control immigration include refusing requests by individuals for […]
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Though Silicon Valley Bank contributed to its own demise, the root cause of this crisis is the fact that private banks own government bonds. If they didn’t, then SVB would still be solvent. Its bankruptcy was the result of the price of Treasury bonds falling, because The Federal Reserve increased interest rates. As interest rates … Continue reading "A Simple Solution to the Banking Crisis That No Country Will Implement"
Liz reminded me that I don’t need to publish some abstract essay every day; I can just, you know, blog. Having said all that about my implicit middle-classness, I’m writing this in a J.G. Ballardian brutalist lair somewhere near Sonoma. It’s all glass, infinity pools, uncovered concrete and plastic cows, surrounded by wildfire-scorched desolation. The […]
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As the dust settles on the Robodebt Royal Commission, an examination of how the scheme was orchestrated clearly shows its architects should face prison time. read now...
Paul Keating's Press Club criticism of the AUKUS agreement revealed the true nature of our mainstream media. read now...We have some bad news I don’t think this is even hitting the front pages but it should: Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made up of the world’s leading climate scientists, set out the final part of its mammoth sixth assessment report on Monday. The comprehensive review of human knowledge of the climate crisis took hundreds of scientists eight years to compile and runs to thousands of pages, but boiled down to one message: act now, or it will be too late. The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said: “This report is a clarion call to massively fast-track climate efforts by every country and every sector and on every timeframe. Our world needs climate action on all fronts: everything, everywhere, all at once.” In sober language, the IPCC set out the devastation that has already been inflicted on swathes of the world.
“They're basically saying the same thing over and over and over again. It's a pattern"
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“They're basically saying the same thing over and over and over again. It's a pattern"
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One question for Christopher Timmermann, a cognitive neuroscientist at Imperial College London.
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It’s timely that Who Cares? has landed in our bookshops just as public hearings by the Robodebt Royal Commission wind up this month.
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A Black in power man trying to get a white man No surprise: it’s working. He pulled that chain and they came running: Bump writes: One of Donald Trump’s less-appreciated political skills is getting his supporters to view attacks on him as attacks on them. His supporters have often seen him that way, viewing criticism of Trump’s presidency or of him personally as an attack on the political movement he leads and, therefore, on them. The tactic works. Or: It generally does. When Trump’s primary frustration was the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and possible overlap between that effort and his campaign, turning the probe into a perceived attack on his supporters was tricky. Sure, there was a lot of “the Deep State is out of control and could do this to you,” but it’s not clear that this really landed. Instead of building his base’s reserves of empathy, the Russia probe drew from them. Instead of Trump making everyone the victim, he mostly fell back on complaining about being a victim himself. Since he lost the 2020 election, though, he’s had better luck.
“I Rupert, take you, Ann Lesley, to be my lawful wedded wife, and seek to dissolve this marriage due to unreconcilable differences"
“I Rupert, take you, Ann Lesley, to be my lawful wedded wife, and seek to dissolve this marriage due to unreconcilable differences"
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What is missing from the debates over monetary policy today is the understanding that the Fed was not established to control inflation. It was created to prevent financial crises by acting as a lender of last resort in times of distress. Indeed, that’s exactly what the Fed is doing now — opening up its lending facilities to banks in need. But rather than focus on maintaining financial stability, the Fed has become obsessed with controlling inflation, something it cannot really do without causing either a recession or a financial crisis (or both).
What the Fed needs to do is abandon misguided economic theories that have subverted its primary goal of financial stability to inflation targeting. Rather than change interest rates to control inflation it should pivot to a policy of stable interest rates with the goal of maintaining financial stability. The current experience is yet another stark example that unstable interest rates are inconsistent with financial stability. This approach is counterproductive and unnecessary since we have more effective tools for macroeconomic stabilization, such as fiscal policy..…
A theory I’ve been wondering about this too. It’s rather bizarre. He’s in the midst of what is already a tough primary fight and his twitter game was instrumental in his 2016 campaign. But despite Elon Musk’s entreaties to return he’s not back on the platform for some reason where he still has a massive following.It just seems unlikely that he’s content with Truth Social where his engagement is tiny by comparison. Today in the Bulwark, Kimberley Whele discusses that SEC investigation I mentioned the other day in which Trump may be implicated in a money laundering crime to do with his Trump Media company. In the process she notes that this may be the reason he’s not returning to twitter: Donald Trump is involved in yet another probe that could potentially result in criminal charges against him or his associates, this one a yearslong federal investigation by the SEC and DOJ relating to the creation and funding of his Truth Social platform. A final twist in the criminal probe involving Trump Media involves the former president’s use of social media.