Rubric 03
EconPol
Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.
25EconPol
Coinbase Brings Stablecoins to Over 1000 Community Banks
Coinbase Brings Stablecoins to Over 1000 Community Banks Stablecoins Arrive Without a Blockchain Stablecoins can be held outside the banking system. The next thousand plus adopters of stablecoin payments are banks. Both...
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26EconPol
Coral Records Reveal Stronger El Nino Events
Coral Records Reveal Stronger El Nino Events A Thousand Years in the Skeleton There was a Pacific before the satellites, and almost nobody was counting. Until the 1980s, when satellite observation began, the surface...
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27EconPol
Dyno Tests Send 36 Illegal Electric Bikes To Crusher
Dyno Tests Send 36 Illegal Electric Bikes To Crusher What a Dyno Machine Made Visible 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...
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28EconPol
Sarmada Blast Kills 14 at Syria Weapons Storage Site
Sarmada Blast Kills 14 at Syria Weapons Storage Site Smoke Rises Over Sarmada's Storage Site Smoke was still coming off the ground hours after the first blast. Crews could not get to everyone quickly: the site held...
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29EconPol
Working Students Face Cost of Living Crisis
Working Students Face Cost of Living Crisis The Question Behind the Question "Can you really juggle a job and study for a degree?" That is the question a video puts to its audience. Read it fast and it sounds like...
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30EconPol
Fourth Plane Never Arrived That Is the Entry That Matters
Fourth Plane Never Arrived That Is the Entry That Matters The Line That Stops Short 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...
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31EconPol
CIA Lost Its Enemy Then Found A War
CIA Lost Its Enemy Then Found A War The Silence Before A Different 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...
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32EconPol
Trump Five Thousand Dollar Promise Raises Legal and Fiscal Questions
Trump Five Thousand Dollar Promise Raises Legal and Fiscal Questions The Legal Weight Of A Campaign Promise In American politics, a sum of money offered from a stage before an election has a name, and the name carries...
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33EconPol
England Tourism Tax Plan Centers on Fiscal Devolution
England Tourism Tax Plan Centers on Fiscal Devolution The Taxman In England Is Almost Entirely National Most people in England assume that the money they pay for local services is raised and spent locally. The numbers...
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34EconPol
Trump 5000 Dollar Dividend Pledge Has No Paymaster
Trump 5000 Dollar Dividend Pledge Has No Paymaster The Arithmetic That Stayed in a Drawer The most revealing part of the Dallas speech was not on the podium. It stayed in a drawer, unopened: a mechanism for moving money...
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35EconPol
Cartoon Two Bills and Gas Reservation Divide Coalition
Cartoon Two Bills and Gas Reservation Divide Coalition The Cartoon That Stayed Up for a Month The microphones are set up in the same corridor at the same hour, and someone always has to explain what was said the day...
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36EconPol
Safety Researcher Quits Over AI Superintelligence Risks
Safety Researcher Quits Over AI Superintelligence Risks When a Safety Researcher Walks Out Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, has resigned in protest. He said he resigned because Anthropic and his previous...
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