In 2019, the Heywood Foundation launched its first fellowship in memory of the late cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood, giving a senior civil servant the opportunity to explore issues relating to public service and policy outside of their day job. Jenny Bates, then a director general in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, became the fourth […]
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It is payday Friday, and a popular shopping mall located in eastern Caracas is packed. But while the hallways look full and the display windows are brightly lit and well-stocked, many people enter and leave empty-handed. Shoppers walk around, browse, compare prices, but they buy very little. The exception is a store belonging to a […]
EUR/USD trading within range, testing resistance near 1.18. Source: TradingView The Euro dropped again during trading on Thursday as we reached the 50-day EMA. Interest rates in America rose overnight, so that brought in US dollar strength. I don’t know that this is anything more than just continued consolidation as we have reached the top […]
Doctors at the University of Maryland School of Medicine are tracking a nationwide rise in measles cases and how it will impact overall health and the economy. Dr. Meagan Fitzpatrick, an associate professor at the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health at the UMD School of Medicine, has been tracking a decrease in measles, […]
Fans are suspicious that since OpenAI bought TBPN, X is downranking the clips. Elon Musk, who owns the platform, has been openly sparring with the ChatGPT maker for months. When Semafor asked OpenAI’s Chris Lehane at Semafor World Economy in Washington, DC, last week, the chief global affairs officer told Reed Albergotti he “looked forward […]
It’s an essential insight about our world: Innovation drives economic growth. For the U.S. to thrive, it must keep innovating. But how, and in what areas A new book co-authored by MIT faculty members focuses on six key areas where technology advances can drive the economy and support national security. Those sectors – semiconductors, biotechnology, […]
Economic siege replaces air strikes The market drifted into Asia chasing TACO crumbs, only for a cohort of traders to look up and notice that Iran’s balance sheet was being quietly erased. That is not de-escalation. It is a change in weaponry. The war has not cooled; it has simply swapped noise for surgical economic […]
Holding money bunched in fist by Iana Miroshnichenko via iStock The dollar index (DXY00) on Tuesday rose by +0.29% and posted a 1-week high. The dollar moved higher on Tuesday on the stronger-than-expected US Mar retail sales and Mar pending home sales reports. The dollar gained further on Tuesday after stock prices slumped when Vice […]
Wall Street sees an oil shock and asks what it means for inflation, the Fed, and energy stocks. Households see an oil shock and ask a very different question: How do we make this month’s math work? That is the analytic failure at the center of this moment. The geopolitical conflict in the Middle East […]
