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EconPol
Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.
133EconPol
Sweden Election Hangs on One Seat
One ballot, folded, marked, dropped into a box, is the smallest unit of Swedish democracy. Multiplied by millions, that arithmetic now holds the country's next government in suspense. With 84% of votes counted, the left...
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134EconPol
Reform UK 72 Million Unconditional Gift and Legal Trap
The donation at the centre of the affair is defined by a single word: unconditional, according to reporting by . A gift with no conditions attached can be spent on anything at all a car, a salary, a lawyer, a leaflet, a...
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135EconPol
Crypto Billionaires Give Reform UK Record 72 Million Pounds
Two cryptocurrency billionaires have given Reform UK £72 million in 48 hours — the largest donation total in British political history. The question is what that money buys, and what rules it tests? In the past 48...
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136EconPol
AI-Deepfake-Scams-Target-Influencers-Brands
Two teams are working on the same face, and they are not working to the same clock. One team has a model trained on years of public video and a screenshot tool. The other has a manager, a report form, and a phone number...
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137EconPol
Coinbase Brings Stablecoins to Over 1000 Community Banks
Stablecoins can be held outside the banking system. The next thousand plus adopters of stablecoin payments are banks. Both statements are true at once, and the bridge between them is a partnership between Coinbase...
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138EconPol
Coral Records Reveal Stronger El Nino Events
There was a Pacific before the satellites, and almost nobody was counting. Until the 1980s, when satellite observation began, the surface temperature of the ocean was not measured in a way that scientists today regard...
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139EconPol
Dyno Tests Send 36 Illegal Electric Bikes To Crusher
The speed was never printed on the frame. That is how 36 e bikes ended up in police custody on Sydney's northern beaches. One of them belonged to a 14 year old boy from Warriewood, and NSW Police said the machine was...
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140EconPol
Sarmada Blast Kills 14 at Syria Weapons Storage Site
Smoke was still coming off the ground hours after the first blast. Crews could not get to everyone quickly: the site held materials that could easily explode, and one detonation produced others, while the resulting...
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141EconPol
Fourth Plane Never Arrived That Is the Entry That Matters
Children count the objects in front of them and ask about the one that is missing. A child given four planes will want to know where the fourth one went, not where the first three ended up. Adults have trained that...
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142EconPol
CIA Lost Its Enemy Then Found A War
Forty minutes. That is how long Margaret Henoch waited on the morning of 11 September 2001 before she concluded that no order was coming from the top of the Central Intelligence Agency. 1] She was a counter intelligence...
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143EconPol
Trump Five Thousand Dollar Promise Raises Legal and Fiscal Questions
In American politics, a sum of money offered from a stage before an election has a name, and the name carries most of the legal weight. Call it a campaign pledge, and it is ordinary politics as unremarkable as a promise...
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144EconPol
England Tourism Tax Plan Centers on Fiscal Devolution
Most people in England assume that the money they pay for local services is raised and spent locally. The numbers do not support that assumption. According to the latest OECD data, just 6 % of national taxes in the...
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