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© Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images And then there were none. On Thursday, the European Central Bank became the last of the major central banks to announce a large programme of quantitative easing, involving the purchase of over €1tn of assets, mostly eurozone government bonds, in the next 18 months. Is… Read entire story.
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@sandymaxey points me to a new report from the North Carolina Justice Center that is making my head spin. Picking Losers shows that the state’s flagship development program, the Job Development Investment Grant (JDIG), has seen 62 of its 102 projects fail in the period from its inception in 2002 until 2013. That …
Though trees across the globe are under threat from the logging and agriculture industries and changing climate, one tree in Alerce Costero National Park in Chile is believed to have survived for more than 5,000 years — and experts say it is the oldest living tree in the world. The tree, known as “Gran Abuelo” […]
This week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released the results of a survey showing that, of the approximately 30 million adults in the U.S. who remain without health insurance, 48{04524d497bea0ade6defd1388b5c9b25998d95475e2938b4fa9d615e63ad1540} would qualify for assistance purchasing such insurance (either tax credits or Medicaid). If you (or somebody you care about) doesn’t …