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It is so important to get on with our own reforms to improve productivity and growth. All the levers are now in our hands

Natural gas prices, already climbing over the past year, rose further in the wake of Russia’s invasion of ...

Bitcoin price was pushed by about 20% when Musk changed his Twitter bio to #bitcoin. It slumped over 18% when he tweeted the prices ‘seem to be high.

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Climate Change Weekly #397 Opinion polls conducted over the past two decades show climate change consistently at or near the bottom of the public’s list of concerns. For instance, a United Nations poll surveying more than seven million respondents from 195 countries asked participants to rank their top 16 policy priorities. Quality education ranked first, and “Action Taken on Climate Change” ranked dead last, receiving 300,000 fewer votes than “Access to Telephone and Internet,” which...

The Court of Appeal has exonerated some of the huge numbers of wrongfully convicted sub-postmasters and mistresses in Britain

Cryptocurrencies: A bubble or harbinger of a cashless world? Cryptocurrencies: A bubble or harbinger of a cashless world? Bangalore Mirror Bureau / Updated: Apr 4, 2021, 10:38 IST The US Treasury described Bitcoin a “decentralised virtual currency”. For every transaction through Bitcoin, for example, some personal information from the user is used to create a kind of password. A ‘hash’ is given for every Bitcoin transaction, with a ‘public key’ and a ‘private key’. Each of thes...

There are several false narratives about economic history, involving topics ranging from the recent financial crisis to 19th-century sweatshops.But probably the biggest falsehood, as explained in this video by Prof. Lee Ohanian, is .03/17/2021 17:08:22PM EST.