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  • RBA Speech: Inflation Targeting and Economic Welfare

    Address by Philip Lowe to Anika Foundation Luncheon

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  • NPR Planet Money: Fed Cut

    The FED has lowered rates “But this decision by the Fed is controversial because right now the US economy seems to be doing fine — and cutting rates if the economy doesn’t need help is risky. So, should it be lowering rates right now? Today Cardiff and Stacey debate the wisdom and discuss the whys and wherefores of a rate cut now.”

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  • Fontaines DC – Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

    Fontaines D.C. are a rock band from Dublin, Ireland. This performance was recorded at Kex Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves 2018.

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  • The Atlantic: Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think

    “The data are shockingly clear that for most people, in most fields, professional decline starts earlier than almost anyone thinks.”

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  • BBC podcast: A History of Music and Technology – Sound Recording

    ‘Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason tells the story of how we first captured sound, giving birth to a global recording industry.’

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  • Do banks have pricing power?

    How to measure pricing power and competitiveness in an increasingly concentrated US banking system?

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  • The Coast Guard Just Busted a Garlic-Smuggling Operation in the Caribbean

    Unlike other forms of smuggling that often involves illegal or banned substances, garlic is smuggled primarily for economic reasons.

    “As part of the recent trade war between China and the United States, the U.S. imposed tariffs on Chinese garlic of 10 percent.”

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  • Museum Dedicated Exclusively to Poster Art Opens Its Doors in the US

    Poster House has opened in New York and is the first museum that displays only poster art.

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  • NPR: Chubb Insurance no longer underwriting coal industry

    “Chubb insurance says it will no longer underwrite coal-fired power plants, the first major U.S. insurer to do so. It’s a big victory for a campaign that’s been pressuring the industry over climate change.”

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  • IMF Working Paper – Enabling Deep Negative Rates to Fight Recessions: A Guide

    “The experience of the Great Recession and its aftermath revealed that a lower bound on interest rates can be a serious obstacle for fighting recessions. However, the zero lower bound is not a law of nature; it is a policy choice. The central message of this paper is that with readily available tools a central bank can enable deep negative rates whenever needed—thus maintaining the power of monetary policy in the future to end recessions within a short time.”

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