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Trump is using lies about immigrant crime waves to create a massive law enforcement apparatus that operates under his orders.
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Jewish children who were ‘hidden’ in Christian families during the Holocaust have much to teach us about memory and trauma
- by Carolyn Ariella Sofia
Silvia Federici’s 1975 essay, ‘Wages Against Housework’, begins with a problem. Many women, Federici writes, are reluctant to support a campaign for housework to be waged, despite all they stand to gain from such a cause. Wages are not an obvious good; women discuss waged housework with difficulty and hesitation. But this hesitation often speaks […]
A few weeks ago I wrote this blog post – Japan – the challenges facing the new LDP leader – Part 2 (October 9, 2025) – documenting the viability of a fiscal expansion in Japan given the availability of idle labour resources, which are in short supply. I noted that the recent estimates from the…
The market for futures on Australian Government Securities (AGS) is one of Australia's key markets for trading interest rate risk, and turnover in AGS futures is substantially greater than turnover in AGS themselves. We examine liquidity in the market for futures on AGS using granular 'tick-level' data that captures trades and changes at the top of the order book from October 2019 to June 2025. We find liquidity deteriorated at the onset of COVID-19 and around the end of the RBA's yield target. Nevertheless, the market for AGS futures functioned well in the period, with market participants always able to transact (albeit sometimes at higher transaction costs). For 'news' events in the period – such as monetary policy decisions and economic data releases, which are inherently uncertain – we find liquidity tended to deteriorate briefly following these events but recovered before day's end. By contrast, for 'flow' events – such as pre-announced purchases and sales of AGS, including syndicated issuance – we find liquidity improved in anticipation of these events and smooth trading conditions were maintained.
Drunk adulterer, Barnaby Joyce, is tipped to be named as heir apparent to racist bigot Pauline Hanson as leader of the fringe band of lunatics that is One Nation. ”Pauline has done a fantastic job of building up One Nation... Read More ›
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – October 19, 2025 by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] Are We […]
Yours truly has been offering a crash course on causality to fellow researchers at Malmö University over the past couple of years. If you’re curious, the course PowerPoint is available here: Causality – a crash course. Many research questions in the social sciences today are fundamentally about issues of causality. What is behind the rise […]
Fans and writers have always been obsessed with Doctor Who ending, but the show and the character have always found ways to "regenerate."
Fam and I are visiting my 96-year-old Uncle George tonight. We love him. His complicated and somewhat meandering stories have been music to my daughter’s ears since she fell asleep in a cab at age six listening to him lament his wife’s death. George is my late mother’s only sibling, and the only survivor of […]
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Big Tech’s Pentagon payday, Citizens United strikes back, and more from The Lever this week.
Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while the Trump administration spends millions to militarize American cities.
The post Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School appeared first on The Intercept.
Within ten minutes I regretted my decision to walk to Creedon Street in the outback town of Broken Hill. At first, I thought it was the shoes. Stupid things I’d bought on the internet, they were little more than plastic-coated cardboard soles strapped to my ankles with nylon laces. The desert sand scratched between my […]
While honoring the Doctor Who Christmas Special, Steven Moffat posted that he believes the show's return is "inevitable" (but not his).
Charitable trust/archivist Film is Fabulous! has been hinting that they may have found lost episodes of Doctor Who in private collections.
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My father was an engineer who designed robots. When I first learned what he did, I imagined the Robot from “Lost in Space,” and asked him to make me one. When I turned 13, I realized that the pick-and-place robots he designed replaced assembly-line workers, and asked how he, who’d been a socialist in his impoverished […]
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The Trump administration has made it clear that it fears mass, nonviolent protests more than anything else.
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