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Thu, 16/11/2023 - 20:00
Gabija Zemaityte and Danny Walker Inflation has been high in many countries since 2021. Some have said that companies have increased their profits over that period: so-called ‘greedflation’. We use published company accounts for thousands of large listed companies to look for signs of increased profits in the data. Consistent with previous analysis of aggregate … Continue reading Profits in a time of inflation: what do company accounts say in the UK and euro area?
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Thu, 16/11/2023 - 18:27
The government, under its own new definition, is an extremist organisation. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th November 2023 As good citizens, we are told, we should report extremism to the authorities. It hasn’t always been clear what this term means, so we should be grateful to Michael Gove’s levelling up department, which […]
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Thu, 16/11/2023 - 14:43

THE 2025 SOCIAL JUSTICE KITTENS CALENDAR HAS ARRIVED!  It’s 2025, and the Social Justice Kittens are back with twelve inspiring new months, each one a stern, colorful reminder that while you enjoy a life of privileged comfort enabled by oppression, these defiant darlings continue their selfless fight for real progress! Never in human history has…

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Thu, 16/11/2023 - 12:46
Today (November 16, 2023), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Labour Force, Australia – for October 2023. Employment rose by 55 thousand and unemployment rose by 27,900 on the back of a 0.2 points rise in participation – usually a sign of a healthy situation. But the special monthly factors (referendum and…
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Thu, 16/11/2023 - 10:30
A hundred years later, they still want to root around in your medicine cabinet Trump wants to have it both ways in the election but I have no doubt that he will take revenge on the abortion rights movement the moment he gets into office. Here’s how he might do it: The next Republican president could effectively ban most abortions through a simple policy change at the Department of Justice, experts and advocates on both sides of the abortion debate say. While Republicans disagree about whether to pursue a national abortion ban that would face long odds in Congress, a GOP president may be able to unilaterally curb access to medication abortion across the country using an obscure 19th-century law. At issue is the meaning of the 1873 Comstock Act, which banned the mailing of “obscene” material like pornography, as well as abortion drugs and contraception. While the law has been cut down over the years, the abortion provision remained but was ignored while Roe v. Wade was in place.