The press talked up the UK's drop in the Corruption Perception Index. But the UK has long been an engine of corrupt conduct around the world.
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How we become convinced that life demands our devoted love.
So the IMF has come late to the transitory inflation party. What was obvious months ago is now at the forefront of IMF forecasts. Better late than never I suppose. It is becoming clear that most indicators are still not predicting a major demand-side collapse in most nations. Growth has moderated slightly and the forward…
So the IMF has come late to the transitory inflation party. What was obvious months ago is now at the forefront of IMF forecasts. Better late than never I suppose. It is becoming clear that most indicators are still not…
Generosity or greed? The roots and fruits of venture capital might not be what you have been led to believe.
A report condemning the Adani Group's history of alleged fraud, bullying and criminal acts has the potential to destroy what's left of the company's reputation. read now...Hitler came to power 90 years ago this week. Tom Orsag argues that his rise was not inevitable and that working class unity in action could have stopped the Nazis.
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"I want to show Australians that I'm not a robot"
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Right-wing unions help regime kill motion With the help of right-run unions, the Labour party’s right-wing regime has defeated a motion brought in support of striking workers, fair treatment for working people, support for the poor and vulnerable and to repeal the Tories’ new anti-worker law. The motion read: Strikes (Composited Motion) Leyton & Wanstead, […]
I’ve worked as an English teacher at a second-ary school in London for the past eighteen years. The job has changed immensely in that time. The workload has increased year on year. Schools are responding to pressure from Ofsted and an accountability agenda, which, in practice, means asking educators to do bureaucratic tasks, taking them […]
Civil servants touch the lives of everyone in the UK. It’s really rewarding, knowing what we’re doing is making an impact. The work is often intellectually demanding, and it can be difficult to switch off when you’re not at work. There are a huge range of roles in the civil service, and the jobs are […]
Rory Dames is one of many soccer coaches recently outed as an abusive predator, with teams now speaking out against the toxic culture of the sport in the U.S. read now...Valiant attempts have been made to measure happiness and wellbeing. People much smarter than me have developed fancy indices, and people even smarter than that, such as our own Nicholas Gruen, has called bullshit on many of them. What I … Continue reading
Here he goes again: Donald Trump’s presidency was filled with low points, but his 2018 summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Helsinki stood out as especially indefensible. After a private meeting with the autocratic leader, in which the American president took interpreters’ notes for reasons that were never explained, the Republican held a disastrous press conference in which Trump defended an American adversary, took cheap shots at his own country, and sided with Putin over the judgment of American intelligence professionals. Soon after, The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence officials “were unanimous in saying that they and their colleagues were aghast at how Mr. Trump had handled himself with Mr.
ECB President Christine Lagarde lets the cat out of the bag.
“As the sole issuer of euro-denominated central bank money, the Eurosystem will always be able to generate additional liquidity as needed,” Lagarde said in response to a question by an Italian member of the European Parliament.
“So, by the definition, it will neither go bankrupt nor run out of money. In addition to that, any financial losses, should they occur, would not impair our ability to seek and maintain price stability....
Alan Greenspan testified to a congressional committee about the Fed's ability to do this, adding that the issue was availability of real resources rather than affordability…
Some people still don't get it. They can't get beyond the idea of money being a"thing" and can't fathom the concept of money as entries on a spreadsheet, now a digital spreadsheet and created merely by stroking a keyboard.
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*Well, they haven’t killed us yet
The specialized division that included SCORPION, the anti-crime unit responsible for beating Tyre Nichols.
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