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Cause and effect

by T.A. Cotterell | Mar 25, 2022 | The Storyteller, zLead Article

How cricket reflects our age. A game of cricket is an extended narrative. It’s also an exercise in cause and effect. Luck aside, if you play a bad shot, you may be dismissed; if you bowl a bad ball, you will probably be hit for runs and vice versa. There is a causal...

Why working from home (WFH) could be inciting inequality

by Robert Stassen | Mar 24, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Analyst

As with other innovations, it carries risks as well as benefits. Originally published August 2021. There is this great cartoon where a man sits behind a laptop having a Zoom call at his kitchen table perfectly shaven and dressed in a shiny shirt with tie, but under...

The cost of war

by Renaud Foucart | Mar 24, 2022 | The Economist, zEditor's pick, zLead Article

How Russia’s economy will struggle to pay the price of invading Ukraine. The invasion of Ukraine has placed Russia on the verge of bankruptcy. Interest rates have doubled, the stock market has closed and the rouble has fallen to its lowest level ever. The...

How the Fed painted us into a corner

by Robert F Mulligan | Mar 23, 2022 | The Economist, zLead Article, zNewsletter

The Federal Reserve System manages the US’s money supply, increasing or decreasing bank credit and other circulating media to reach a target interest rate usually announced at meetings of the Open Market Committee, which meets eight times a year. They met this week,...

During the Cold War, US and Europe were just as divided over Russia sanctions

by Kirill Shakhnov | Mar 22, 2022 | The Analyst, zLead Article, zNewsletter

Here’s how it played out. It’s impossible to predict how the crisis in Ukraine will progress, but the rupture in relations between Russia and the West is unlikely to heal any time soon. At the very least, trade between these two sides is going to be badly...