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Oil prices slip as economic fears offset tightening crude supplies By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An employee demonstrates a sample of crude oil in the Yarakta Oil Field, owned by Irkutsk Oil Company (INK), in Irkutsk Region, Russia in this picture illustration taken March 11, 2019.…

Poverty in 2021 looks different than in 1964 – but the US hasn’t changed how it measures who’s poor since LBJ began his war

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson famously declared war on poverty. “The richest nation on Earth can afford to win it,” he told Congress in his first State of the Union address. “We cannot afford…

Studying social media can give us insight into human behaviour. It can also give us nonsense

Since the early days of social media, there has been excitement about how data traces left behind by users can be exploited for the study of human behaviour. Nowadays, reseachers who were once restricted to…

Europe’s climate masterplan aims to slash emissions within a decade By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: General view of electricity pylons and power lines leading from the Uniper coal power plant in Hanau, Germany, early morning November 23, 2016. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) –…

The UK–Australia trade deal is not really about economic gain – it’s about demonstrating post-Brexit sovereignty

As expected, the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, and his Australian counterpart, Scott Morrison, have now agreed “in principle” to a free trade agreement. The fine details are still not out in the open, but…

Disclosures and Data: Building Strong Foundations for Addressing Climate-Related Financial Risks

FSB Chair Randal K Quarles speaks at the Venice International Conference on Climate Change by : Source link

O CBDC, O crypto! Wherefore art thou regtech?

Putting more investment and energy into regtech, instead of solely focusing on crypto and CBDC, would help to secure more of the expected benefits from digital evolution by : Source link

From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors – a brief cultural history of UFOs

On June 25, 2021, the U.S. government released a nine–page preliminary report on UFOs, or, as it is now calling them, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs. The report is the latest notable event in what…

U.S. Treasury’s Yellen to push development banks to step up climate financing effort By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Smoke billows from the chimneys of the Belchatow coal-fired power station in this May 7, 2009, photo. REUTERS/Peter Andrews/File Photo By David Lawder VENICE (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on…

space tourism takes off with Branson’s inaugural flight

With British billionaire Sir Richard Branson’s successful flight to the edge of space, he and his company Virgin Galactic have firmly established themselves in the history books as space tourism pioneers. While not the first…

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Oil prices slip as economic fears offset tightening crude supplies By Reuters

Poverty in 2021 looks different than in 1964 – but the US hasn’t changed how it measures who’s poor since LBJ began his war

Studying social media can give us insight into human behaviour. It can also give us nonsense

Europe’s climate masterplan aims to slash emissions within a decade By Reuters

The UK–Australia trade deal is not really about economic gain – it’s about demonstrating post-Brexit sovereignty

Disclosures and Data: Building Strong Foundations for Addressing Climate-Related Financial Risks

O CBDC, O crypto! Wherefore art thou regtech?

From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors – a brief cultural history of UFOs

U.S. Treasury’s Yellen to push development banks to step up climate financing effort By Reuters

space tourism takes off with Branson’s inaugural flight

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