Gábor Pintér Are larger trades more or less expensive to execute in bond markets than smaller trades? This is an old and unsettled question in the literature on financial markets. The aim of this blog post is to provide novel answers to this question, based on our recent research using transaction-level data from the UK … Continue reading Do larger bond trades cost more to execute?
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I’ve written about the increasingly popular theory of degrowth communism. Its message is simple: capitalism’s drive for profit is destroying the planet and only “degrowth communism” can repair the damage by slowing down social production and sharing wealth. Humans need to find a “new way of living”, and that means replacing capitalism. However, there are serious …
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Following the disappointing conclusion to the Bruce Lehrmann trial, it's important to remember the toxic culture developed by the Morrison Government within the walls of Parliament House. read now...The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has emailed The Grayzone a defense of the Azov Battalion and refused to condemn the Pentagon for honoring a veteran of the group who sports Nazi-inspired tattoos. A November 9 email from the Anti-Defamation League to The Grayzone provided a twisted defense of Ukraine’s Azov Battalion. Despite its self-proclaimed “anti-hate” mission, the ADL insisted in the email it “does not” consider Azov as the “far right group it once was.” The Azov Battalion is a neo-Nazi […]
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Given the Australian Government has eroded the right to disobey non-violently, climate activists need to consider other clever ways to escalate their campaigns. read now...No one seems to care about a logical contradiction at the heart of housing affordability debates
In discussions about the significant differences that we have observed over the last 30 odd years between the conduct of economic policy in Japan and elsewhere, the usual response from mainstream economists, when challenged to explain the outcomes in the…
Supermarket executives were up on Parliament Hill this week, appearing before the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food’s inquiry into food inflation grocery chain profits. They repeated the now-familiar argument that supermarkets have not caused food inflation, they have merely passed along higher input costs to their customers; their profit margins have been stable, it is claimed. Don’t believe them. [...]
Political figures in France have publically expressed their delight that the French baguette has been added to the UN's protected heritage list. read now...The post The Ice Kings Audiobook appeared first on Doctor Who Magazine.
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Time Magazine has awarded Scott Morrison it’s coveted ‘People of the Year’ award for their unique ability to take on
FSF tech team member Michael McMahon discusses the team's year-round jobs and responsibilities, and how it is all done in freedom and to support and strengthen the freedom of the free software community.
I sat down with Chris Oestereich for a fairly long interview. He’s split it into three parts and the first is primarily about American politics.
The build up of savings during the pandemic is over - now we need strong income growth to keep the economy going as the Reserve Bank tries to slow it.
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In this edition of CEPR Sanctions Watch: the Afghan Fund meets, but relief for Afghanistan remains far as winter draws near; the UN General Assembly condemns the US embargo against Cuba by a vote of 185 to 2; Biden appears to revert to Trump’s “maximum pressure” strategy in Iran; sanctions against North Korea have “abjectly […]
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In a functioning democratic and political media ecosystem, it would have been front page news:...