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Fri, 06/03/2026 - 06:19

While CNN censors reports of failing Israeli interceptors, Iran is writing the handbook for how to defeat the US - Israeli empire. From destroyed US FAD radars to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the repercussions of this imperialist aggression against the Islamic Republic have massive global implications and is revealing the true nature of the Arab Gulf states and their commitent to Zionism as explained by political analyst Sharmine Narwani.

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Fri, 06/03/2026 - 03:15

A wide range of anonymous X (Twitter) users have reported that their real names are suddenly being Googled in Israel shortly after they began criticizing the country for its actions in Palestine. Some connected the phenomenon to Au10tix, the software X requires users (even anonymous ones) to use in order to verify their real identities. Au10tix is an Israeli company founded and staffed by former Israeli spies from the elite Israeli military intelligence group Unit 8200.

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Fri, 06/03/2026 - 01:00
Eduardo Maqui, Nicholas Vause and Márcia Silva-Pereira In recent decades, the corporate bond market has grown from a relatively niche source of finance for UK corporations to a central pillar alongside bank loans. This transition raises an important question: as with bank credit conditions, have supply conditions in the corporate bond market come to significantly … Continue reading Bond financing conditions and economic activity in the UK: aggregate and firm-level evidence
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Thu, 05/03/2026 - 22:47

At the Right To Food Commission’s conference in Knowsley, the effects of nearly five decades of neoliberal capitalism were demonstrated by a conveyor belt of academics, community representatives, medical professionals, and one of the tiny number of politicians prepared to be honest about the situation Britain finds itself in. Earlier this year, Ian Byrne MP […]

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Thu, 05/03/2026 - 20:00

Ever since the Cold War, we’ve been living in a world dominated by one superpower: the United States. The US is home to the world’s most formidable military, serves as the headquarters of finance, and writes the rules of international trade — all premised upon its control over our most critical technologies. But this unipolar […]

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Thu, 05/03/2026 - 20:00
Manuel Gloria and Chiara Punzo The expansion of non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) is transforming the financial landscape and introducing fresh challenges for financial stability and oversight at the same time as creating opportunities. Using a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model, we find that while NBFIs may enhance long-term welfare for households and entrepreneurs in … Continue reading Monetary policy, state-dependent bank capital requirements and the role of non-bank financial intermediaries
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Thu, 05/03/2026 - 16:26
I finally arrived back home late last night, so I am catching up today. Part 2 of the series I started on Monday will appear next Monday. Yesterday (March 4, 2026), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest – Australian National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and Product, December 2025. The data shows that…
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Thu, 05/03/2026 - 15:23
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 18 calls for papers for conferences (some are partly and fully funded) and special issues, 11 summer schools, 9 postdoc positions, 4 PhD scholarships, 2 visiting posts, 2 job openings, a research grant, and an award in economic sociology, […]
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Thu, 05/03/2026 - 12:33
THERE WAS A popular gotcha back in the day for which tech utopians showed a special fondness. In the late 2000s and early 2010s, with conservative critics still noisily alarmed at the internet and social media, proselytisers for the new technology would dip back into history and unearth some comparable commentator whose own example was comically self-defeating.
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Thu, 05/03/2026 - 09:52
Cook ¼ cup chopped onion and 2 tablespoons chopped green pepper in 2 tablespoons butter or margarine till tender; blend in 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour. Add: one 16-ounce can tomatoes, cut up; 1 teaspoon sugar; ¼ teaspoon salt and dash pepper. Cook and stir till bubbly. Pour into 4 individual casseroles. Arrange 3 Deviled Egg […]