The words “Liz Truss” and “mini-budget” have become shorthand for financial recklessness and economic chaos. But what was it about the former prime minister’s economic management that was so disastrous? Truss’s premiership was defined by…
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By Colleen Howe BEIJING (Reuters) – Oil rose in early Asian trading on Thursday on rising expectations the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September, and as the market rebounded from a selloff related…
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How can we explain and predict human behaviour? Are mathematics and probability up to the task, or are humans too complex and irrational? Often, people’s actions take us by surprise, particularly when they seem irrational.…
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India looks set to return Narendra Modi as prime minister for a third term. But not in the way that he might have wished – or expected. Modi had hoped to win 400 of the…
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South Africans do not have a deep culture of coalitions. There have been a few coalitions at provincial and municipal levels but most of these were quite unstable. The outcome of the 2024 national election…
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When astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of radio waves originating from across the vast expanse of the universe. We call them “radio transients”: some erupt only once,…
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Central banks are focusing their external communications more on traditional media than social media for a second consecutive year, the Communications Benchmarks 2024 find. The average proportion of external communications implemented via traditional media –…
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Investing.com– Oil prices fell slightly in Asian trade on Wednesday, remaining at four-month lows after industry data pointed to an unexpected, bumper build in U.S. inventories. The data, which came after a string of weak…
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Heathrow Airport in the UK currently uses more energy than the entire west African country of Sierra Leone. Despite Africa accounting for less than 4% of all global greenhouse gas emissions, many of its countries…
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Remarks by Nellie Liang, US Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, and Chair of the Financial Stability Board Standing Committee on Assessment of Vulnerabilities, at the OECD – FSB Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence in Finance, Paris,…
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