The typical Australian will change careers five to seven times during their professional lifetime, by some estimates. And this is likely to increase as new technologies automate labour, production is moved abroad, and economic crises…
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Jeremy Green, The political economy of the special relationship: Anglo-American development from the gold standard to the financial crisis, Princeton University Press, 2020, 368 pages On the eve of World War I, London’s financial markets…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A gas pump is seen hanging from the ceiling at a petrol station in Seoul June 27, 2011. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak 2/2 By Laura Sanicola NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices fell…
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The Biden administration is likely celebrating a better-than-expected jobs report, which showed surging employment and wages. However, for millions of working Americans, being employed doesn’t guarantee a living income. As scholars interested in the well-being…
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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the tech giant will shift from being a social media company to becoming “a metaverse company”, functioning in an “embodied internet” that blends real and virtual worlds more…
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2/2 © Reuters. A pump attendant is seen next to a discount advertisement for gasolines at a Petrochina petrol station in Shenyang, Liaoning province, China June 24, 2019. REUTERS/Stringer 2/2 By Chen Aizhu and Muyu…
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Fervent proponents of cryptocurrencies and the blockchains they run on have promised a lot. To them, these technologies represent salvation from corporate power over the internet, government intrusions on liberty, poverty and virtually everything else…
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At first glance, a recently granted South African patent relating to a “food container based on fractal geometry” seems fairly mundane. The innovation in question involves interlocking food containers that are easy for robots to…
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The Central Bank of Argentina The Argentine government reimposed currency controls on September 1, in a bid to stem capital outflows and the abrupt depreciation of the peso. In a statement, the Central Bank of…
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© Reuters. Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Crude prices pulled back from some of their three-day loss as Middle East tensions help put a floor under the market ahead of Friday’s U.S. jobs report for July.…
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