Sketchy ads, like those for miracle weight loss pills and suspicious-looking software, sometimes appear on legitimate, well-regarded websites. It turns out that most websites don’t actually decide who gets to show ads to their viewers.…
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The screening of local government debt is currently in progress. Are you worried that the revealed scale of the issue will escalate, so creating a local debt crisis? The problem of local government debt is…
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If you’ve seen photos of a teapot shaped like an avocado or read a well-written article that veers off on slightly weird tangents, you may have been exposed to a new trend in artificial intelligence…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry gives a speech before he attends a meeting at the foreign ministry building (SRE) in Mexico City, Mexico February 9, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File…
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Six weeks into the war with Ukraine, Russia’s economy seems to be holding up better than initially expected. Despite unprecedented sanctions and an exodus of Western companies, the Russian ruble – a widely followed indicator…
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Since the invention of Bitcoin in 2009 the global cryptocurrency market has grown from nothing to a value of around US$2 trillion. From a price of US$1 in 2011, Bitcoin rose to an all-time high…
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© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden returns a salute as he steps from Marine One upon arrival at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 11, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S.…
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Inflation continues to surge at the fastest pace since the early 1980s, placing more pressure on the Federal Reserve to lift interest rates. The consumer price index, a broad measure of prices of goods and…
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Federal Reserve board member Lael Brainard said on April 5 that Fed policy-makers could start shrinking its balance sheet “at a rapid pace” from May. Brainard declared that “it is of paramount importance to get…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The shadow of a worker is seen next to a logo of Russia’s Rosneft oil company at the central processing facility of the Rosneft-owned Priobskoye oil field outside the West Siberian…
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