Tarana Burke’s #MeToo movement has evolved in the four years since it exploded on the national scene with the Weinstein scandal. From a flurry of #MeToo-related headlines in 2017, the movement has now produced a…
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Join the FSB’s virtual workshop on the lessons for financial stability from the COVID-19 pandemic. The workshop will be held on Wednesday 1 September at 13:00 (CEST) and will cover market and institutional resilience, operational…
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The Kimberley region is host to Australia’s oldest known rock paintings. But people were carving engravings into some of these rocks before they were creating paintings. Rock art sites on Balanggarra Country in the northeast…
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The decisions made by the Federal Reserve can upend stock markets, but they barely touch US households’ expectations on inflation, job status or personal finance, research published on August 5 finds. Policy decisions only appear to…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Another week, and the story in oil is hardly any better. U.S. crude scraped together a tiny gain for the week, while Brent couldn’t even manage that. The…
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Warren Buffett, who turns 91 on Aug. 30, 2021, is a billionaire at a time when outrage over the excesses of extreme wealth is growing in tandem with billionaires’ fortunes. But based on what I…
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What do cyberspace and outer space have in common? As we make clear in a new report to the Department of Defence, both are new frontiers for national security that blur traditional ideas about borders,…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A coal-burning power plant can be seen behind a factory in the city of Baotou, in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, October 31, 2010. REUTERS/David Gray/ 2/2 By David Stanway…
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Once considered a utopian ideal, a basic income guarantee has become a distinct political possibility, as the South African government scrambles to respond to growing hunger, and anger in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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A special anti-money laundering police unit conducted a search of the Central Bank of Paraguay (BCP) on July 13. Reports in Paraguayan media suggest the search was the first in the central bank’s history. The…
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