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EconPol
Economy and politics: policy, power and the mechanics underneath.
85EconPol
Housing as Financial Asset Fuels Eviction Protests in Europe
The District trade show and summit in Madrid was billed as one of the largest real estate events in Europe, attracting as many as 15,000 people ranging from investment firms to developers. Its size is part of its...
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86EconPol
EU Opens Door to UK Return But Sets No Terms
"Welcome back." Two words, in English, delivered with a smile at a news conference in Madrid on Wednesday. The speaker was the French president, Emmanuel Macron. The subject was the suggestion, floated by Andy Burnham,...
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87EconPol
UK Banks Lead Europe In Coal Financing After Glasgow
Pledge and the Loan Book In November 2021, global leaders met in Glasgow for Cop26 and pledged to "phase down" coal use. They pledged to "phase down" coal use. Four years on, the banks that finance the fuel have moved...
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88EconPol
Operation Rosny Ends Quietly But May Define Political Donations
Most people who follow a corruption inquiry keep score in resignations. A hearing that ends a premiership was worth holding; a hearing that ends quietly was not. That is the commonsense ledger, and the Independent...
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89EconPol
Starship Reaches Orbit for First Time on 14th Flight
A rocket that reaches orbit is a different machine from one that merely climbs and falls back. The answer arrived on a single morning over Texas. It arrived despite an engine that had already failed on the way up....
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90EconPol
What-Content-Creation-Degrees-Teach-and-Cannot-Teach
Destiny McGowan graduated in July with a degree in content creation from Nottingham Trent University. She is 21. She says she always wanted to be an entrepreneur. The course, in her account, delivered skills that can be...
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91EconPol
Gene-edited non-browning banana awaits UK approval
Tropic, an agricultural biotechnology firm based in Norwich, has developed bananas it says keep their freshly peeled colour long after they are cut. Tropic says the fruit could cut food waste: a banana discarded for a...
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92EconPol
England First Home Scheme Requires 16850 Deposit From Savers
England's first time buyer policy now rests on a gap between what a home costs and what a saver can put down. The government has announced the "Your First Home" scheme, aimed at helping first time buyers in England onto...
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93EconPol
New Found Glory Guitarist Chad Gilbert Dies at 45
Chad Gilbert was a founding guitarist of the US rock band New Found Glory. He has died at 45. His family announced the death on Sunday. In their statement, they said he "passed away peacefully in his sleep." 1]. Gilbert...
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94EconPol
Hockney Sleeping Dachshund Painting Heads to Auction
David Hockney painted him in 1995 Stanley, his own dachshund, curled up on a cushion, eyes shut. For roughly three decades the canvas stayed in private hands, and it is now one of only six of the Dog Series paintings...
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95EconPol
Afrikaner Ambassador Rejects White Genocide Claim
"Is he talking about us?", Roelf Meyer recalls thinking. 1] Meyer is South Africa's ambassador to the United States, and he is, in his own words, a born Afrikaner. He was appointed in April, after relations between...
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96EconPol
Trump administration removes 760000 from ACA over fraud claims
For as long as governments have kept records, a person's standing before the state has rested on a line in a book a parish register, a tax roll, an insurance roster. What the book never shows is the person on the other...
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