The Sydney Book Review is my kind of book review. It’s online and free. Ever since I joined the blogging revolution in 2005 it’s seemed crazy to me (not to mention precious) that so many of our literary publications are … Continue reading
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Ten years ago, in May 2012, I pressed ‘publish’ on the first post on this blog. With Mirror Sydney I wanted to turn a reflective eye onto the city and the suburbs, and record observations of places that were in some way out of step with the more rapaciously-changing, exclusive version of the city. I […]
"Only Murders in the Building" returns June 28, only on Hulu.
Rural communities building back from the pandemic may need to gauge their local resources and set priorities for future investment.
"Only Murders In The Building" is the cover story for this month's Emmy Magazine.
Read the article here.
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May 16, 2022 When the Myth of Progress Unravels By Alfie Kohn The arc of history is long, but it bends toward catastrophic annihilation. — Barbara Ehrenreich The fact that five religious Supreme Court justices have eliminated women’s right to terminate a pregnancy — a protection representing “a half-century of progress toward a more equal society” — has ... Read More
Herewith an article that was published by INET a couple of weeks ago, and Evonomics more recently. I’m republishing it here as it’s my ‘blog of record’ as it were, but also because it enables me to make notes to … Continue reading
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The current study aims to investigate the impact of academic achievement on child labor. The study utilizes survey data collected from Palestinian children in West Bank schools who are in the primary grades (5th-9th).
In the second round of the Chilean presidential elections, the coalition led by Gabriel Boric secured a victory under the premise of delivering long-awaited reforms to a financially volatile, structurally fragile, and deeply unequal economic structure. In this policy note, Giuliano Toshiro Yajima sheds light on these three aspects of the Chilean economy, showing that its external and internal fragility feeds back on the excessive specialization and heterogeneity of the productive sectors, which in turn influence income and wealth distribution.
REFI Spring Conference
'Regenerative' is the new 'sustainable'.
If 'DeFi' means decentralised (i.e. blockchain) finance, 'ReFi' means Regenerative decentralised finance. It was under this banner that 50+ folks met last week in Austria, including superstars Art Brock & Eric Harris Brown (Holo founders) and Shaun Conway from IXO.
NEW PEARL JAM POSTER SALE TOMORROW!
My new Pearl Jam poster, for their 5/3/22 concert in San Diego, will go on sale tomorrow, Thursday May 12 at 10am Pacific time (11am MT/12pm C/1pm EST) at our new site:
printsandtherevolution.art
These are signed, silkscreen, 18 x 24” posters, numbered 1-100. There is a secondary, one-color image on the back of the poster as well as an official Pearl Jam stamp. (More images on our site.) Price is $100 plus shipping.
LIMIT ONE POSTER PER PERSON. In order to be fair, each person can buy one print. PLEASE do not order more than one. The interface for the site will not allow me to regulate that, but if we receive an order for more than one print we will VOID and REFUND the order. We hope you understand - we are trying to do this out of fairness.
The FOMC announced it will begin reducing the size of the Fed’s balance sheet in June 2022. How will such reduction work, and how long will it continue?
The Reserve Bank is pushing up interest rates to take money out of our hands.
The first increase in the current round will add about A$65 a month to the cost of paying off a $500,000 mortgage.
The second will add a bit more. If, as the bank’s forecasts assume, there are another four such increases this year, that’s a further $275 a month, and so on.
The point, in the words of the Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe, is to “slow the economy, to get things back onto an even keel”.
In a helpful video, the Governor explains that rate rises take money out of mortgagee’s hands directly, make it harder to borrow, make people “feel less happy”, and hit the prices of houses and other assets so people “don’t feel as confident and they don’t spend as much”.
APO Director, Brigid van Wanrooy, explains why she is relieved that the Australian Public Service has not gained traction as an issue for voters and what we can do instead to promote transparent and accountable public policy and services.
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