The one-year Treasury rate and the five-year, five-year forward rate on Treasuries told different stories in 2022, depending on whether one looked at nominal rates or real rates.
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Philosopher Nathan Ballantyne (Arizona State University) and psychologist Norbert Schwarz (University of Southern California) have won a $3.4 million grant for their project, “Humility in Inquiry”. “The project focuses on humility in inquiry—the practices and processes that encourage humble, open-minded thinking,” says Professor Ballantyne. “The project’s aim is to support intensive collaborations between philosophers and scientists, and ultimately to establish a new paradigm of interdisciplinary research.” The grant supporting the research was awarded by the John Templeton Foundation. Professors Ballantyne and Schwarz will in turn be distributing subawards totaling $1.3 million. These will support research by multidisciplinary teams with members drawn from philosophy, psychological science, and related fields to address one or more of the themes of “Applying Epistemic Ideals, Science and Organizations, and Mindsets and Metacognitive Perspectives”.
Happy 2023, Drupal community! We have many exciting things in the works for the new year. We’re kicking off 2023 by developing an Open Web Manifesto, and we need your input. We are currently working to build our 3-year strategic plan, starting with this manifesto – and the Drupal community’s input is vital.
The Drupal Association believes that Drupal is a digital public good and a leader in Open Web principles. An open web is:
- an engine of economic empowerment
- a promoter of free expression
- a space for digital inclusion
We want your thoughts on what the “open web” means and how you think Drupal should promote these ideas in the future.
A wealth of new detail about the Twitter-government partnership.
Woodburning stoves are a beguiling but disastrous mistake. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th December 2022 It’s shame that has stopped me writing about it before. The shame of failing to think for myself and see the bigger picture, which is more or less my job description. Instead, I followed the crowd. In […]
Kristina Bluwstein, Sudipto Karmakar and David Aikman Introduction Inflation reached almost 9% in July 2022, its highest reading since the early 1990s. A large proportion of the working age population will never have experienced such price increases, or the prospect of higher interest rates to bring inflation back under control. In recent years, many commentators … Continue reading What does the rise in the inflation mean for financial stability?
Sian Norris reports as Kigali declares it will not welcome refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, undermining claims it is a safe country to deport migrant people
On 27 September 2022, Open Rights Group (ORG) held a roundtable with civil society – from women’s rights advocacy groups to organisations representing over-surveilled communities – to discuss some of the most concerning aspects of the Online Safety Bill, currently at the report stage in the House of Commons. Two particular issues were raised during the […]
The Hardy Boys are public domain now! And there's nothing they can do about it.
Disney goes back to the office.
This is the clear result of the enormous increase in property prices – driven largely by the banks’ desire for profit. A mortgage that was limited to about three times annual income in the 1990s is now frequently and remarkably seven times annual income. No wonder one in forty mortgagees are in arrears – a... Read more
The 40-year-old is yet to broach the awkward accusation.
Religious schools that once begged for limited monetary support now demand and receive a disproportionate amount of government funding, ensuring permanent disadvantage to public school children. read now...Jeff Beck has died! A masterful musician. Very sad. We move on. I read an interesting research paper recently – “The Great Retirement Boom”: The Pandemic-Era Surge in Retirements and Implications for Future Labor Force Participation – published in the…
Yglesias out with another idea today:
New debt ceiling workaround just dropped — an idea for folks who find the platinum coin too silly. https://t.co/COhytbTHgv
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 11, 2023
I guess: With policy rate at 5%; they sell a 1 year 10 face value with a coupon of 95 then people would pay 100 and get redeemed for 10... they would make the 5%... iow they would pay 100, get coupon for 95 then get back 10 at redemption in 1 year... pay 100 and get back 105 within a year...
USD savers would have their USD savings in the Treasury General Account at the Fed instead of in Treasury Securities accounts at the Fed… TGA account would probably maintain a VERY high balance…
Tennis player and supposed public health menace Novak Djokovic was deported last year under the guise of "rules are rules", but sport-related COVID "rules" have been bent throughout the pandemic. read now...Goddam it all, anyway. This one hurts. The music world has lost one of its greatest vocalists. That is not a typo. Jeff Beck could make a guitar speak, in every sense of the word. He rarely stepped up to the mic during the course of his 60+ year career, but whenever he set his fingers to a fret board, he told you a story; sometimes joyous and life-affirming, sometimes sad and melancholy…but it never meandered into masturbatory self-indulgence. Every note held import, serving a distinct narrative that had a beginning, a middle, and an end. Like all great artists, he was loathe to dawdle too long in a comfort zone; he never stopped exploring, pushing the boundaries of his instrument ever-further with each performance (whether on stage or in the studio). While he was generally relegated to the “rock” section, he could slide effortlessly from blues, boogie, and metal to funk, R & B, soul, jazz and fusion (more often than not, all within the same number).
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Drupal 10 is here!
Thanks to collaboration from more than 2,000 contributors and over 600 organizations across the world, Drupal 10 was released on December 15.
The latest version of Drupal has upgrades to both the front-end and back-end design, with the Olivero front-end theme and the Olivero admin theme now default. The WYSIWYG editor has been updated to CKEditor 5, with significant improvements to in-place editing controls and great pluggability.
Huffington Post reports on the latest House atrocity: House Republicans are set to vote on a pair of abortion bills this week, just a few months after their disappointing performance in the 2022 midterm elections that even some top Republicans like former President Donald Trump attributed to extreme abortion policies. […] The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act would require physicians to provide life-sustaining care to infants born after an attempted abortion and threatens doctors with criminal penalties if they don’t comply. Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) reintroduced the legislation earlier this week, along with original Republican co-sponsors Reps. Steve Scalise (La.) and Kat Cammack (Fla.). “All children should have the right to receive life saving care, especially those who survive an abortion,” Wagner said in a Monday statement. “The Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act will provide common sense protections for innocent children and their mothers and will ensure all babies receive the essential care they need at an incredibly vulnerable moment.
