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Tue, 08/08/2023 - 18:00
Nicholas Vause and Carolin Pflueger Recently, Pflueger, Siriwardane and Sunderam (2020) proposed a new measure of investor risk perceptions based on the cross-section of stock prices. Using that measure, they found that when risk perceptions are high, the cost of capital of risky firms is high and subsequently real investment and employment decline in the … Continue reading Risk perceptions and economic activity in the United Kingdom
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Tue, 08/08/2023 - 14:38

More than 100 ASU members at anti-poverty charity the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Melbourne went on strike for a full day in their campaign for a better enterprise agreement.

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Tue, 08/08/2023 - 14:35

THE question on everybody’s lips has been answered. Residents and visitors alike are invited by the City of Coffs Harbour to attend the official opening of Yarrila Place, the new building housing a state-of-the-art museum, art gallery, library and the council’s offices, on Saturday 16 September 2023. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s...

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Tue, 08/08/2023 - 14:33

THE old saying about walking a mile in someone’s shoes before you can truly understand them is what encouraged Jacqui Parker and Nicole Laupepa to start the ‘Walking Together Project’. It is aimed at giving young people from all cultural backgrounds the tools they need to walk with First Nations Australians in unity. Advertise with...

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Tue, 08/08/2023 - 14:31

COMMEMORATING the life of botanical legend, the late Alex Floyd, a group of his friends and long-time fellow residents at Marian Grove Retirement Village in Toormina, gathered in the property’s lovely gardens to plant two trees marked with a plaque. As part of National Tree Day, on Sunday 30 July, members of Coffs Harbour Regional...

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Tue, 08/08/2023 - 14:28

COFFS Coast tourism offers and business owners were voted tops across numerous categories at the North Coast Tourism Awards. The gold, silver and bronze award winners were announced on Thursday 27 July at Plantation House, part of Tropical Fruit World, in the Tweed. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your...

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Tue, 08/08/2023 - 13:55

A CEREMONY marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War will be broadcast nationally on August 18. On January 11, 1973, the Governor General Sir Paul Hasluck signed the documents that ended Australia’s participation in the Vietnam War. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message...

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Tue, 08/08/2023 - 11:41

I got back into Broken Hill on Saturday night and slept like the dead. That journey home absolutely kills. Yesterday I just loved being home. Having a shower in my own shower, eating with Re & H on the couch, watching some telly and going to bed. In my own freaking …

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Tue, 08/08/2023 - 10:00
*sigh* One by one, the giants continue to fall: William Friedkin, the Oscar-winning director behind The French Connection and The Exorcist who was one of the most admired directors to emerge from a wave of brilliant filmmakers who made their mark in the 1970s, died Monday. He was 87. Friedkin died in Los Angeles, his wife, former producer and studio head Sherry Lansing, said. His pictures, which also included 1977’s Sorcerer, 1985’s To Live and Die in L.A. and 2006’s Bug, were marked by an exceptional visual eye, a willingness to take what might have been a genre subject and treat it with high seriousness and a sense of how sound could add a subterranean layer of dread, mystery and dissonance to his stories — a haunted and haunting quality that lifted his visceral works into another realm, conveying a preternatural sense of “fear and paranoia, both old friends of mine,” as he said in his 2013 memoir, The Friedkin Connection. Fear and paranoia. I’m not a religious person, but I distinctly remember jumping out of my seat and shouting “JESUS CHRIST!” about a dozen times the first time I saw The Exorcist.
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Tue, 08/08/2023 - 09:30
I don’t know quite what to make of all this but I’ll just throw it out there for you to mull over: Apparently, quite a few people think the indictments are simultaneously trying to stop Trump while also upholding the rule of law and defending democracy. I’m pretty sure that prosecutors trying to stop the Trump campaign would not be in keeping with either of those two things. I guess some people are confused. People may decide they don’t want an indicted criminal suspect for president but nobody is trying to stop him from running or stop anyone from voting for him. Are they suggesting that he shouldn’t be prosecuted because he is running for president even if there is evidence against him? This distinction between MAGA Republicans and Non-MAGA Republicans is not particularly useful at this point. If you are willing to vote for Trump then I fail to see the difference. Yep. 68% think Biden is illegitimate based upon nothing but bullshit from Donald Trump and his henchmen. That’s the ballgame. More Democrats than Independents or Republicans are concerned about both. That certainly says something, I’m not sure what.