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UK Only Article: standard article Fly Title: From the archives Rubric: Why mortgage subsidies are a bad idea IN THIS week’s print edition, we explore how mortgage subsidies have encouraged banks to lend more to homeowners and less to firms, with pernicious economic consequences. The Economist has long been a … Read entire story.
Source: Economic Issues
Growing up, our biggest fear was “the bomb.” Dr. Strangelove came out the year I was born. Not to worry though, see a bright flash … just duck and cover. Yep, your desk will so shield you from a thermonuclear blast. This week, I interviewed historian Niall Ferguson. He believes we’re several years into a second Cold War. Fellow geopolitical gangster […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, the Democratic Georgia prosecutor who brought charges against former President Donald Trump over efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, faces a rare Republican challenger in her bid for reelection in the state’s most populous county. Courtney Kramer, a lawyer who interned in the White House […]
Oil has bounced close to 20{04524d497bea0ade6defd1388b5c9b25998d95475e2938b4fa9d615e63ad1540} off its recent lows, but one look at its longer-term chart shows that it still has a long way to go to get back to levels it was at just six months ago. At its lows, oil got down to 50{04524d497bea0ade6defd1388b5c9b25998d95475e2938b4fa9d615e63ad1540} below its 200-…