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Anna Paulson, director of research at the Chicago Fed, talks about the collaborative nature of economic research at the Federal Reserve.
The bank panic is proving to be an exercise in class warfare that may well wind up further strengthening the right.
About that militia.
A nice protective blanket of TV.
Biden pushes for an assault weapons ban.
I regularly encounter mainstream economists who are confounded by the dissonance that the body of theory they have been working in introduces and then seem to think they have come up with new ideas that restores their credibility. The more extreme version of this tendency is called plagiarism in academic circles. But the less extreme…
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An AEC form reveals Optus made questionable political "donations" after Gladys Berejiklian was appointed a senior executive to the foreign-owned telco last year. read now...
I want the fossil fuel industry to stop breaking the law and pay for their crimes against people and the planet. read now...China’s support (along with India and various other nations) makes it impossible to take out Russia with sanctions, just as Russia’s support makes it impossible to take out China with sanctions or blockade.
The fundamental issue here is the West still thinks it’s 2000 — that China isn’t the major industrial power & that Russia isn’t a fuel, mineral and food exporter. The West isn’t /needed/. For a long time you could only get things you had to have from the West.
"What else do you call it when an elected official is given an envelope filled with money after a meal at the PRC Embassy or after an inauguration?"
While there is a great deal of goodwill in the arts, more must be done to identify and address practices, systems and structures that might result in disability discrimination. read now...
Disney snaps back Ronnie D abused his power. So Disney decided to do it too: Gov. Ron DeSantis’ handpicked board overseeing Disney World’s government services is gearing up for a potential legal battle over a 30-year development agreement they say effectively renders them powerless to manage the entertainment giant’s future growth in Central Florida. Ahead of an expected state takeover, the Walt Disney Co. quietly pushed through the pact and restrictive covenants that would tie the hands of future board members for decades, according to a legal presentation by the district’s lawyers on Wednesday. The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District’s new Board of Supervisors voted to bring in outside legal firepower to examine the agreement, including a conservative Washington, D.C., law firm that has defended several of DeSantis’ culture war priorities. “We’re going to have to deal with it and correct it,” board member Brian Aungst Jr. said. “It’s a subversion of the will of the voters and the Legislature and the governor. It completely circumvents the authority of this board to govern.” Oh no! How can this be????