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This extract from Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture by Alice Sherwood explores a tragic effect of information asymmetry. Malaria. Its epithet: the “unsurpassed scourge of humankind” is well …
Murderous mimicry Read More
Environmental, Social and Governance thinks it’s an adjective but tries to be a noun. Jason Miklian and John E. Katsos explain why it means so much more. Or less. Joe …
All or nothing Read More
In prepared testimony for a Senate Banking Committee hearing slated for Tuesday morning, the chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation reveals that the 10 largest deposit accounts at Silicon Valley Bank …
‘The Billionaire Bailout’: FDIC Chair Says the Biggest Deposit Accounts at SVB Held $13 Billion Read More
The European Union knows all too well what it means to be the target of economic coercion. Russia’s move to cut off gas flows to Europe is one example. China’s boycott and blockade of Lithuanian …
The EU is wielding a new weapon in its trade battle with China Read More
Crypto businesses have warned for months that the Biden administration is quietly moving to push them out of the U.S. Now, with the collapse of three crypto-friendly banks, they say …
Crypto sector sees an existential moment in the U.S. Read More
Jason van Tol tells a story of the true price of policy. Tragedy struck recently in my friend’s kindergarten class. Savanah, the single, working grandmother of Davey, one of the …
Time to spend Read More
US federal debt has its limits. Richard Vague tells the tale. One of the great melodramas of American politics erupts in Washington when the federal debt approaches its statutory limit and …
The debt ceiling melodrama Read More
Boris Johnson’s outside earnings have now hit £5m in the six months since he left office, new figures suggest. His latest disclosures, which came as he was grilled by MPs …
How Boris Johnson raked in £5m in 6 months after leaving office Read More
Climate change is generating major economic problems in the United States, the Biden administration said in an annual report published this week. The assumptions that higher-income countries like the U.S. would …
Climate change could spur severe economic losses, Biden administration says Read More
As inflation rises above 20%, middle-class Nigerians are forming WhatsApp groups to buy food items in bulk directly from producers and share among themselves. For Cecelia Anahobi, a single mother …
How Nigerians are using WhatsApp groups to fight food inflation Read More