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Thu, 06/04/2023 - 18:00
Natalie Burr The challenge of measuring financial conditions Imagine you were tasked with thinking about how financial conditions have changed over a policy tightening cycle. Different economists would come to very different conclusions, and none would necessarily be wrong. Why? Because measuring financial conditions is challenging – for a variety of reasons. A financial conditions … Continue reading The challenges of measuring financial conditions
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Thu, 06/04/2023 - 15:55
Yves here. This post confirms something Lambert has highlighted in the context of elections: that nurses are one of the most effective union groups. Here they are combatting abusively low hospital staffing levels. Not only will this campaign help slow the decline of the quality of care, it should help slow the exodus of nurses, […]
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Thu, 06/04/2023 - 09:33
Broadcaster slammed for falsely implicating immigrants The BBC has been hammered for feeding into racist stereotypes in its report of the conviction of twenty-one people in the West Midlands on child sex abuse charges. All those convicted are white Britons – yet the BBC illustrated the article with a headline image showing Palestinian flags: After […]
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Thu, 06/04/2023 - 09:30
Republicans are suddenly concerned about their anti-abortion zealots ruining everything. And in the process they are proving that abortion politics were always about winning and not about any “principle” that life begins at conception. Now that they are losing and they don’t like it: