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...Productivity-hype bubbles are usually separated by at least 25 years and usually form at the end of a secular bull market, when aggregate profits are coming under pressure, say Garthwaite et al....
...Given how volatile the data was during Covid-19, Williams et al suspended their estimates until May....
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its decision on interest rates at 2pm ET/7pm London today. Check back here for details and reaction....
...Saudi Arabia plans to launch a multibillion-dollar investment company within the PIF, two people familiar with the matter told the FT’s Samer Al-Atrush in Dubai and Samuel Agini, to scout more deals in the...
...It’s the central chapters, on effort and entrepreneurship, which give the strongest impression that our current leaders don’t like us very much....
...What about how concentrated the stock market gains are with Nvidia, Microsoft, Google et al? I mean, shouldn’t that weigh against this rally? What about that? Katie MartinMaybe yes....
...Everyone expects Jay Powell et al to say “no rate increase today, but maybe in a month”....
...And corporations of all types use longer-term currency swaps to hedge their own foreign currency bond liabilities (McBrady et al (2010), Munro and Wooldridge (2010)). The BIS’s suggestion?...
...The evidence we have suggests that as an inflation hedge bitcoin is useless (Smales, 2021), mostly useless (Conlon et al, 2021), randomly worse than useless (Matkovskyy and Jalan, 2020), or consistently...
...companies by Trove Research, a data consultancy....
...Need to know: Global economy Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of COP28 and head of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, promised to “supercharge” global climate finance, finalise a $100bn fund to...
...If we are right that consumer spending, despite some recent softening on the margin, is still at or above trend, that is another thing for Powell et al to fret over....
...as Argentinians, Venezuelans et al flee to a functioning country....
...In a tour de force for Scottish Ballet, however, choreographer Helen Pickett makes the case for translating Arthur Miller’s Salem-inspired The Crucible into dance — faux witches, Puritan paranoia et al....
...Prosecute fraud, maybe regulate crypto exchanges like casinos, and keep the SEC et al out of it. This is a disagreement about how to cordon off crypto so that when crypto burns, it is controlled....
...It’s a big week everywhere for central banks....
...There is for sure a debate to be had about when the Federal Reserve et al should have pivoted their stance more forcefully to tackle inflationary pressures, and what they should and shouldn’t do now....
...ExxonMobil’s stock market recovery first began when Pfizer et al announced that they had developed a strong slate of anti-Covid vaccines in November 2020....
...They look at Facebook’s past five years and its attempts — frequently belated, often ambiguous — to deal with the way that state actors (Russia et al), hoodlums (such as the Proud Boys), politicians (a list...
...You can understand why the US et al would make a big fuss about Russia avoiding its sanctions by flogging knockdown oil to India or cheap gas to China — though I would note in passing that Russia’s imperialist...
...Or, if the weather’s warm, try their signature Cappuccino Al Freddo, a frothy iced number whipped up in a milkshake maker....
...“You go from having a full game, on TV, at a set hour, [to] you can now break that content into highlights, clips, et cetera and deliver it over all kinds of media”, he said....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...A macroprudential-bulletin by ECB staff (Adachi et al, May 2020), noted that Libra could become a US$3tn collateral silo. Another alternative exists....
...The deflationary narrative of disruptive technology expounded by Brynjolfsson, McAfee et al runs deep....
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