Gabija Zemaityte and Danny Walker Inflation has been high in many countries since 2021. Some have said that companies have increased their profits over that period: so-called ‘greedflation’. We use published company accounts for thousands of large listed companies to look for signs of increased profits in the data. Consistent with previous analysis of aggregate … Continue reading Profits in a time of inflation: what do company accounts say in the UK and euro area?
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Joe Biden’s response to the Hamas attacks of October 7 was to fuse the wars in Israel and Ukraine into a single struggle. Immediately after he returned from his visit to Tel Aviv, where he had both literally and figuratively embraced Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden addressed the US public from the Oval Office. “You know,” he […]
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If war is supposed to be the continuation of politics by other means, Israel’s assault on Gaza seems to be the continuation by other means of the absence of politics. It does not seem that Israel understands what its endgame is. Without a clear sense of an ending, there can be no answer to the […]
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One of the privileges of being civilized is that it gives you the right to do very uncivilized things to the barbarians. In his public address to Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on October 18, Benjamin Netanyahu remarked, “You’ve rightly drawn a clear line between the forces of civilization and the forces of barbarism.” History […]
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For almost all of its thirty-year duration, it seemed quite natural to think of the conflict in Northern Ireland, unfolding just a few dozen miles away from my hometown of Dublin, as an anachronism. The local joke was that when planes landed at Belfast airport, the pilot announced, “Welcome to Belfast. Put your watches back […]
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In the Jewish legend, the great warrior Samson ends up, as John Milton famously puts it, “eyeless in Gaza.” He is blinded by the Philistines and harnessed to a huge millstone, forced to drag himself around and around in circles, always moving but unable to go anywhere. Eventually, in the most spectacular of suicides, he gets […]
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The Indian government has been accused of assassinating a Sikh activist in Canada. This is all too believable in the light of Modi’s Hindu nationalism and authoritarianism.
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Cooking time: 30-35 min. Ingredients: (4 pers.)¾ kg falukorv (sausage)1 tbsp. butter or margarine2 yellow onions½ tbsp. flour1 can peeled tomatoesdiced leftover meatsaltwhite pepperpaprika¾ kg potatoes1½ dl milk, boiling2 tbsp. butter or margarinesaltpeppernutmeg Preparation:
Ingredients:1 pound yeast dough4 pounds onions, chopped fine¾ to ½ cup olive oil2 cloves of garlic1 fresh sprig, or ½ teaspoon dried thyme1 bay leaf12 anchovies, well desalted12 black olivesfreshly ground black pepper Instructions: The real pissaladière is made with yeast dough. You may be able to purchase some at your baker’s. If not, here […]
Plain Boiled Rice Preparation time: 5 minutesCooking time: 14-20 minutesTo serve: 4 You will needboiling salted water8 oz. long grain rice Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil and shower in the rice. Boil gently in an uncovered pan until tender, this will vary from 14-20 minutes according to the rice. Test […]