Rubric 03
EconPol
Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.
121EconPol
Fed Hikes Rates As Mortgage Costs Climb Again
Every morning, before most households have finished their coffee, lenders across the country reprice what it costs to borrow against a home. The lender posts a number, the borrower decides whether to accept it, and for...
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122EconPol
How Nineteen Months Shifted Power to Beijing
When Xi Jinping arrives in Washington on Sept. 24, the pageantry will obscure a harder fact: over the past nineteen months, the balance of power has shifted measurably toward Beijing. The Iran conflict of President...
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123EconPol
Hanoi EV Startup Hires Before Selling Scooters
The drawer is open, and what sits inside is not a blueprint. AVES, a Hanoi startup, says its first electric motorcycles and e bikes will go on sale in summer 2027. Until then, the only substantial documents the company...
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124EconPol
Fed Hikes Once But Insists It Is Not a Campaign
On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2023. The increase was 0.25 percentage points. 2] That lifted the central bank's target range for the federal funds rate to 3.75 % to 4 %....
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125EconPol
Lawsuit Asks Who Pays After Texas Abortion Ban Death
Link in the Chain A circuit breaker engineered to trip only after the wiring has already melted is not a safety device; it is a receipt for the fire. Texas's near total abortion ban operates on a similar logic: the...
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126EconPol
Thirlwall Inquiry Finds Complete Safeguarding Failure in Letby Case
A neonatal unit a hospital ward for newborn babies, especially premature or ill ones is the quietest loud place in any hospital. Incubators hum through the night, alarms chip away at the silence, and the patients inside...
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127EconPol
UK Wage Growth Lifts State Pension Above Tax Threshold
The wage data lands in the morning, and the number inside it is 3.9%. That is the growth in total pay across the British workforce over the last year. By the afternoon, that single figure has effectively set the state...
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128EconPol
Families Seek Saudi September 11 Records As Trump Promises Review
A manila folder costs a few cents and weighs almost nothing. It can still hold the difference between what a state knows and what its citizens are permitted to read. That is what a group of families is now asking for:...
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129EconPol
Global Democracy Downturn Reaches Eleven Straight Years
The health of a democracy can be measured. The yardstick has a fifty year memory and covers 174 countries, and this year's reading for the United States is the lowest in half a century. The measurement is not a...
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130EconPol
Oil Above 108 Pushes US Treasury Yields to 5 Percent
Petrol and diesel prices in Britain hit new highs for the Iran war on Monday. Petrol and diesel in Britain hit new highs for the Iran war, according to the RAC, with the average cost of petrol climbing to 169.68p a...
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131EconPol
TransUnion Changes Score Range But Credit File Stays the Same
Breaks and a Number Appears Britain's credit reporting system is about to run a quiet demonstration of the same principle: the structure stays exactly as it was, and something latent becomes legible. TransUnion, one of...
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132EconPol
Two Crypto Fortunes Land in One Party Account
"Everything was totally above board." 3] That is the sentence Robert Jenrick carried onto the Laura Kuenssberg show, and it is now doing all of the work. It has to cover £72m, arriving in two instalments of £36m each It...
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