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5 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jerome Powell took over as head of the Federal Reserve in 2018 pledging a plain-spoken, language-of-the-people approach to talking about monetary policy. FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell takes his seat to testify before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress” on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque It turns out that’s a bit...

Lambert: Herd animals. By Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Quantedge Presidential Professor, Department of Economics, University of California – Berkeley, Tho Pham, Lecturer in Economics, University of Reading, and Oleksandr Talavera, Professor of Financial Economics, University of Birmingham. Originally published at VoxEU. While the effectiveness of central bank’s verbal communication is well documented, little is known about the effectiveness of communication via non-verbal channels. This column disc...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A schematic visualization of the ferritin nanoparticle with shortened coronavirus spike proteins, which is the basis of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate from Stanford. view more  Credit: Duo Xu Before the pandemic, the lab of Stanford University biochemist Peter S. Kim focused on developing vaccines for HIV, Ebola and pandemic influenza. But, within days of closing their campus lab space as part of COVID-19 precautions, they turned their attention to a vaccine for SARS-Co...

 E-Mail COVID-19 antibodies preferentially target a different part of the virus in mild cases of COVID-19 than they do in severe cases, and wane significantly within several months of infection, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford Medicine. The findings identify new links between the course of the disease and a patients immune response. They also raise concerns about whether people can be re-infected, whether antibody tests to detect prior infection may underestimate the bread...