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The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is among the kinds of disruptions economic experts say may happen as the Federal Reserve winds down its “easy money” policies.
Date Time Children learned ‘little or nothing’ during school closures, despite online learning School closures in the last year have led to serious learning losses, with primary-age school pupils making virtually no progress studying at home, according to a new study by researchers at Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, published in Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Learning losses were particularly pronounced in families with low levels of education. The findings come from data gathered in the Netherlands, where schools closed for eight weeks in t...
Tech Asa Fitch, Elizabeth Koh, The Wall Street Journal) A year into the pandemic, the work from home world of the cloud and broader tech shift in everything from cars to consumer electronics are driving real-world economic activity in the form of skyrocketing demand for semiconductor chips. For a deeper dive on the geopolitical ramifications of increased chip manufacturing, read: The Struggle over Chips Enters a New Phase ( The Economist) Ben Tarnoff and Moira Weigel, The New York Times) This month, social media companies made a decision with global ramifications: they banned Donald Trump fro...