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Sat, 24/05/2025 - 03:15

“The Trump administration on Thursday said it would halt Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation of the administration’s efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president’s agenda.”New York Times

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Dear “PRESIDENT” Garber,

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Fri, 23/05/2025 - 23:42
Från näringslivshåll påpekas ofta att Sverige har mycket höga skatter. Särskilt marginalskatten, som i genomsnitt uppgår till som mest 52,7 procent, brukar vara föremål för kritik. Med tanke på allmänhetens låga kunskap om vad marginalskatt är, har det fått en förvånansvärt stor spridning. Det har sannolikt lett till en felaktig uppfattning om hur höga inkomstskatterna […]
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Fri, 23/05/2025 - 23:00
Economic theory is built on equilibrium assumptions. Perhaps this term once connoted the rest point of a dynamic process. But in modern parlance, an equilibrium assumption posits a relation between the beliefs and behavior of different agents without explicitly describing a process which causes this relation to hold. Competitive equilibrium assumes prices clear markets, without […]
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Fri, 23/05/2025 - 12:48

After the dwindling of the Catalan independence movement, a new force has emerged in the region: Aliança Catalana, a far-right party mixing Catalan nationalism and anti-immigration rhetoric. Led by Ripoll town councillor Sílvia Orriols, the party is gaining traction and reshaping the political conversation in Spain. The rise of this tendency is yet another example […]