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Exclusive-White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy planning to step down -sources By Reuters

Exclusive-White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy planning to step down -sources By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: White House Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy holds a news conference in the parking garage at Union Station in front of new EV charging stations in Washington, U.S., April 22, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn…

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Elon Musk’s bid spotlights Twitter’s unique role in public discourse – and what changes might be in store

Elon Musk’s bid spotlights Twitter’s unique role in public discourse – and what changes might be in store

Twitter has been in the news a lot lately, albeit for the wrong reasons. Its stock growth has languished and the platform itself has largely remained the same since its founding in 2006. On April…

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Distributed ledger technology in regulatory reporting

Distributed ledger technology in regulatory reporting

Satisfying regulatory demands can be made cheaper and more straightforward via distributed ledger technology as regulatory reporting has a transformational effect on the regulatory value chain. Maciej Piechocki, Moritz Plenk and Noah Bellon of BearingPoint discuss the challenges…

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Surprise! There might be salmonella in your chocolate

Surprise! There might be salmonella in your chocolate

In the past three months, more than 150 cases of salmonella food poisoning across Europe have been linked to Kinder chocolate products. Most of the cases have been in children under ten years old. Health…

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In North Carolina, Biden defends handling of inflation By Reuters

In North Carolina, Biden defends handling of inflation By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks while visiting a POET Bioprocessing plant in Menlo, Iowa, U.S., April 12, 2022. REUTERS/Al Drago By Jeff Mason GREENSBORO, N.C. (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Thursday…

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Elon Musk argues Twitter would be better off in private rather than public hands – corporate governance scholars would disagree

Elon Musk argues Twitter would be better off in private rather than public hands – corporate governance scholars would disagree

Billionaire Elon Musk says he wants to take Twitter private by buying 100% of its publicly held shares in a deal worth US$43 billion. In a letter to the board, he said that Twitter can’t…

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U.S. oil drilling, output moving higher with energy prices By Reuters

U.S. oil drilling, output moving higher with energy prices By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A rig hand works on an electric drilling rig for oil producer Civitas Resources, at the Denver suburbs, in Broomfield, Colorado, U.S, December 2, 2021. REUTERS/Liz Hampton/File Photo By Liz Hampton…

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Corporate do-gooder efforts can boost sales as long as they’re tied to corporate harm

Corporate do-gooder efforts can boost sales as long as they’re tied to corporate harm

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Customers spent more buying stuff from companies that engaged in corporate social responsibility than those that didn’t – as long as…

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Time might not exist, according to physicists and philosophers – but that’s okay

Time might not exist, according to physicists and philosophers – but that’s okay

Does time exist? The answer to this question may seem obvious: of course it does! Just look at a calendar or a clock. But developments in physics suggest the non-existence of time is an open…

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Tackling ‘dead-end’ monetary policy – Central Banking

Tackling ‘dead-end’ monetary policy – Central Banking

A 1% inflation target should not be feared The current monetary policy challenge could be defined as follows: if we accept, as central bankers do, that inflation – which now stands at around 1.0–1.5%, ie,…

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