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Wed, 28/08/2024 - 21:36

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has warned the British people that the October Budget is going to be ‘painful’. He has once again blamed the Conservative Party for reckless economic mismanagement, which has left a £22 billion black hole in the nation’s finances. It is undoubtedly true that successive Conservative governments managed the UK economy particularly […]

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Wed, 28/08/2024 - 19:05
Harris’ nomination locks in another Boomer presidency. This single generation — those born in the nineteen years between 1946 and 1964 — is guaranteed another presidency. 36 consecutive years, not counting the Biden Interregnum (he’s technically too old). Despite being a Boomer, you may have noticed that she’s the young, exciting candidate. Yes, the generational […]
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Wed, 28/08/2024 - 18:00
Vania Esady and Stephen Burgess A summary measure for UK households’ resilience High levels of household debt have been shown to amplify recessions. For example, in the global financial crisis (GFC), UK households with more debt tended to cut back their spending disproportionately, amplifying aggregate demand effects and potentially making the recession worse. High levels … Continue reading A summary measure for UK households’ resilience
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Wed, 28/08/2024 - 17:00
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Wed, 28/08/2024 - 16:30
Today (August 28, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest – Monthly Consumer Price Index Indicator – for July 2024, which showed that the annual inflation rate has fallen from 3.8 per cent in June to 3.5 per cent in July, a significant decline which continues the downward trend. That trend has…
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Wed, 28/08/2024 - 10:57
Short Take: Why We Have a Second Amendment in the USA

In the two hundred years before the American Civil War there were more than 250 slave revolts involving more than 50 slaves. Most involved between 50-150, but some we much larger.

So, Sean Paul, what does this have to do with the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms?

Everything to do with slavery, and nothing to do with holding our government accountable. Seriously, do you honestly think a couple thousand Texans with AR-15s could out fight an armored brigade? GTFOH.

The Second Amendment was specifically designed so that white slave holders had enough firepower–not pitchforks–to put down any serious slave rebellion. Look what they did to Gabriel Prosser in 1800?  Bet you never heard of him, have ya?

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Wed, 28/08/2024 - 10:00
Jack Smith went to a new Grand Jury and got a superseding indictment in the January 6th case in light of the Supreme Court’s immunity case. Donald Trump seems to be surprised by this: (FYI: It was Trump’s DOJ in 2020…)
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Wed, 28/08/2024 - 05:39
You Can’t Make Good Decisions If You Believe Lies

Nate Wilcox recently wrote about the signal to noise ratio in the information we receive:

Coming in a context of other tweets about Germany’s up is down policies declaring Jews who oppose genocide in Palestine to be anti-semites, a nominally left wing publication disinforming their readers about Brazil’s Lula, relentless economic gaslighting, a seemingly cooked-up online conflict between Black Americans and Palestinians, and the MI6 blaming Russia for the UK’s recent racist pogroms…