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Amita got home late from her job at school, so I put on the next episode of Atlanta for her and I to watch while she ate. It was a great 40 minutes of television.
If you are an American and you haven’t already voted in the 2022 mid-term elections, please get out and vote tomorrow. Now, more than ever, we need to vote for politicians and parties who will bring down emissions, set aside land for reforestation, and adapt to existing temperature rise. We can do this, but we … Continue reading Vote to Fight Climate Change
White Christian nationalism has been shown by researchers to be strongly connected to authoritarianism and...
I really didn’t know what to expect when Joseph Laycock and I bought our tickets...
Economic issues are a primary part of Trump's appeal to his base
As incitements to genuine fear and trembling, credible invocations of the end of the world are hard to top. So when President Joe Biden mentioned the war in Ukraine and Armageddon in the same breath at a Democratic Party fundraiser, the whole world jumped. Amid a wave of news clips filled with swooning commentary and verbal handwringing, the White House staff rushed to do damage control.1
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Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) have garnered growing interest in recent years and are making inroads into traditional finance. One purported benefit of DLTs is their ability to bring about “atomic” settlement. Indeed, several recent private sector projects (SDX, Fnality, HQLAx) aim to do just that. But what exactly is atomic settlement? In this post, we explain that atomic settlement, as it is often defined, combines two distinct properties: instant settlement and simultaneous settlement, which should be kept separate.
David McWilliams and I sat down in front of a splendid, heartwarming, boisterous Kilkenomics audience to talk about Technofeudalism but also Ukraine, Britain and Europe. The ersatz audio recording is not of the highest quality (sorry!) but it is not terrible either (especially if you have a good headset). Apologies for this but one of […]
The post Discussing Technofeudalism, Ukraine & Britain with David McWilliams in Kilkenny – audio appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
Higher interest rates can improve net interest margins, but higher rates can also generate risks that banks must properly manage.
This week, Cathy from Velvet Crisis was published in The Guardian saying how she'd joined a band as part of the unglamorous music project, so here's a blog post about what Velvet Crisis have been doing.
Australia punches above its weight in the medical research space. The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the main government granting agency in the field of medical research. On October 16th, it was announced that future mid-level and … Continue reading
In defending the Stage 3 tax cuts in parliament, Angus Taylor inadvertently highlighted the real benefits for low-middle income earners comes from Stages 1 and 2.
The post Not even the Liberal Party can defend the Stage 3 tax cut on its own merit appeared first on The Australia Institute.
New research from public policy think tank The Australia Institute shows that two thirds of South Australian voters support the removal of Christian prayers from the opening of Parliamentary sittings. The Australia Institute surveyed of a representative sample of 616 South Australians in September, asking about the opening prayers and the recent addition of an
The post Replace Parliament Prayers with Minute’s Silence: SA Voters appeared first on The Australia Institute.
It’s Sunday afternoon and there is a boat for sale in Cairns, it looks like a tough old sea kindly boat. I will be back to work tomorrow. So, I will kick the can down the track. Accumulating my stash for a bigger and …
The latest enterprise agreements figures show small signs of wage growth and once again the benefits of being in a union
The post Some small signs of better wage rises appeared first on The Australia Institute.
What do you get if you combine the vaudevillian skills of ventriloquism and
miming? I’ll be honest…
It is not controversial to say that the UK’s immigration system is utterly broken. The reason is very plain but seldom noted – decades of cuts in which the cheapness of the system is crazily prioritised over the system working. The costs to the economy of the system not working are simply enormous. I have […]
The post Rampant Deprofessionalisation appeared first on Craig Murray.
No. They seem to be unable to answer a first year textbook question more accurately than chance.
“What is a debt, anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.” David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 …
The post Don’t let the black hole debt doomsters suck us in with their lies. Enough is enough. appeared first on The Gower Initiative for Modern Money Studies.
