The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea People who care for friends, children or other loved ones may avoid products and services that make caregiving easier – such…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A pump jack stands idle in Dewitt County, Texas January 13, 2016. REUTERS/Anna Driver By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters -Oil prices dropped on Wednesday but stayed above $70 a barrel, taking…
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Ghana’s current system of land administration generates a lot of conflicts for a number of reasons. Firstly, under Ghana’s customary land tenure system, multiple people can hold interest in the same land. This means that…
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In December 2001, Enron Corp. collapsed into bankruptcy – at the time the biggest U.S. publicly traded company to ever do so – following years of fraudulent accounting. Two decades later, Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes…
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The Federal Reserve has agreed to extend the dollar swap lines it re-established during the Covid-19 crisis to guard against further instability in 2021. The announcement came alongside the Fed’s latest monetary policy decision, where…
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© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – U.S. crude stockpiles fell by less than expected last week, but the bullish sentiment on energy since the start of the week remained intact amid signs China has…
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CC BY-ND The share of Americans living in poverty shrank to an estimated 9.2% in 2020, according to the Urban Institute, a think tank that closely tracks this rate with a widely used model. There…
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Galaxies – massive collections of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems – are a fundamental component of our Universe. Understanding how they have formed and evolved over cosmic eras remains one…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A sticker reads crude oil on the side of a storage tank in the Permian Basin in Mentone, Loving County, Texas, U.S. November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Angus Mordant By Jessica Jaganathan SINGAPORE…
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Most of America’s 107,000 gas stations can fill several cars every five or 10 minutes at multiple pumps. Not so for electric vehicle chargers – at least not yet. Today the U.S. has around 43,000…
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