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Sun, 25/12/2022 - 12:59
  • Oil and gas producers are diversifying their funding sources.
  • Energy asset securitization is a new type of funding that is quicking gaining in popularity.
  • Oil and gas securitization offerings could be beneficial to both investors and producers, Daniel Allison, energy finance partner with law firm Sidley Austin LLP, said. 
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Sun, 25/12/2022 - 09:36
A few years ago, right before the holidays, someone wrote in with a question for Dr. Lakoff: “When my family gets together for the holidays, how do I avoid getting into a political argument with my conservative grandfather?” “Don’t argue with your grandfather,” Dr. Lakoff answered. “Instead, ask him to tell you a story about a time […]
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Sun, 25/12/2022 - 07:33

Since coming to Washington more than three decades ago, I have spent much of my time working on retirement income. The biggest part of that story was defending Social Security, which leaders in both parties were anxious to cut. This defense was largely successful, as the efforts to privatize it in the 1990s and under […]

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Sun, 25/12/2022 - 04:56
I’m in the middle of a large consulting project on economics and climate change, and I’m also developing and delivering a set of seven “Mastermind” lectures, which you would have seen advertised on social media (a marketing firm is handling the messaging, which is why some people have thought it’s not me putting out the … Continue reading "Using accounting to prove the core propositions of MMT and Endogenous Money"
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Sun, 25/12/2022 - 04:37
from Dean Baker The idea of industrial policy has taken on almost a mystical quality for many progressives. The idea is that it is somehow new and different from what we had been doing, and if we had been doing industrial policy for the last half-century, everything would be better. This has led to widespread applause on […]
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Sun, 25/12/2022 - 00:53

Having entirely unexpected cause to become acquainted with the subject, I learn that all main railway stations in Germany have their own police stations. At Bochum, you have to walk round the outside to find a door with a buzzer, which nobody answers. Heading back into the station, I approach the first pair of policemen […]

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