by Kean Birch* Unicorns are private companies valued at over US$1 billion. The term was first used by venture capitalist Aileen Lee in 2013 and has since become a cultural trope of its own. According to the business analytics firm CB Insights, there were close to 1,000 unicorns in the world at the end of […]
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A friend sent me this article documenting Sam Bankman-Fried’s now well known text exchange with Vox journalist Kelsey Piper. I couldn’t help but think of Alasdair MacIntyre’s characters. As MacIntyre put it in After Virtue: What is specific to each culture … Continue reading
U.S. gasoline prices have outpaced overall consumer prices in recent decades, but rising gas prices don’t appear to be driven by long-term growth in consumer demand.
My latest cartoon for The Boston Globe.
To combat persistently low wages growth, the Government has put forward its Secure Jobs Better Pay Bill, currently before the Senate. The most contentious reform within the Bill is ‘multi-employer bargaining’. We’ve heard employer groups call it a ‘seismic shift that will increase strikes’. On the other hand, unions are calling the reforms moderate. What
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Matthew Guy's Liberals, their cooker friends and accompanying media protection racket have run a cheap anti-Dan Andrews election campaign in Victoria, but will it make a difference? read now...I’m trying something a little bit different with this post with respect to the writing process… I’ve found myself writing less on the blog but still putting more longer format writing on other platforms such as Instagram and LinkedIn. I’m perhaps a carnival barker always in search of an audience. So this is being written […]
I have a new cartoon in this week’s print edition of The New Yorker:
As a researcher, I’ve tracked the ascendance of White Christian nationalism in the United States...
Cartoon for The Washington Post
The latest wages price index figures show that for the first time since 2013 wages grew by more than 3% in the past year.
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It was a big announcement day yesterday! And our Saucer Country campaign is going amazingly! Secret Invasion It’s now been announced that I’m writing the novel of the acclaimed Marvel comic series Secret Invasion, which was originally written by Brian Michael Bendis with art (on the main title) by Leinil Francis Yu. The novel will ... Read More
Invisible but essential to the global recycling industry, the cardboard collectors of Miami-Dade earn a living by breaking down each piece of cardboard by hand, with no guaranteed income or labor protections.
The Federal Open Market Committee is the Fed’s monetary policymaking body. How does the FOMC voting rotation work, and who votes at FOMC meetings?
Julian Reynolds Moves in oil prices have significant implications for the global economic outlook, affecting consumer prices, firm costs and country export revenues. But oil futures contracts tend to give an imperfect steer for the future path of oil prices because, at any given time, futures contracts may be affected by a wide range of … Continue reading What is the information content of oil futures curves?
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Business groups like the ACCI and AI Group say they want higher wages, but their recommendations for minimum wage rises show they rarely want real wages to rise
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The current energy market structures, including the short-run-marginal-price-on-all nature of the current wholesale market, are not fit for a transition to a renewables-dominated system.
The present emergency responses to the energy crisis across Europe are unsustainable and are generating acute economic and political tensions, which could grow. The UK moved from targeted fiscal supports to a more general price cap on electricity, which, due to its cost (to government) is now set to end after this winter, with a search for new approaches. In the EU, following an acute focus on gas prices, attention is turning to the scale of unequal cost burdens and windfall profits in the European electricity market, precipitating urgent debate about reforms that could also align with the need to further accelerate the move away from fossil fuel generation.
Moving away from fossil fuels, towards a system with a far greater contribution from variable renewables, means that the current system is not fit for purpose.