Category: Economics

Honda HR-V adalah salah satu model SUV kompak andalan Honda yang berhasil mencuri perhatian banyak penggemar otomotif. Dengan desain yang modern, teknologi mutakhir, dan performa yang tangguh, HR-V menjadi pilihan ideal bagi mereka yang menginginkan kendaraan praktis namun tetap stylish. Mobil ini telah berevolusi sejak pertama kali diperkenalkan pada tahun 1999 dan kini menjadi salah…

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Rep. Andy Kim (D-NJ) speaks to climate activists outside the Capitol during the vote for the Inflation Reduction Act. 2022. Up until the DNC anointed Kamala Harris as their standard bearer, they were pushing their devotion to saving democracy. Then Democrats became all about joy at their convention, in large part by ignoring the massive…

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 Director David H. Petraeus of the Central Intelligence Agency rings the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on September 18, 2012, CIA’s 65th anniversary. (Ben Hider/NYSE Euronext) For many months economists and market strategists have suggested that a pending Federal Reserve “pivot” from policy stasis to sustained rate cutting will boost equity prices…

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Krit Chanwong and Scott Lincicome In a new Cato policy analysis out today, September 19, we show that state and local corporate subsidies have increased substantially in recent years, even though their economic costs typically exceed any plausible regional benefits. The paper finds, among other things, that the growth of these corporate incentives is likely…

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David Inserra Last week, Australia dropped its revised Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill 2024, and it’s about two sandwiches short of a picnic. The bill appears to draw some of its inspiration from the EU’s Digital Services Act in terms of creating significant responsibilities and regulations. And if past is prologue, what happens in Australia…

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Romina Boccia Germany’s constitutional debt brake, or Schuldenbremse, is a critical fiscal policy tool designed to limit structural government deficits. Instituted in 2009 following the global financial crisis, the debt brake has returned German public debt to sustainable levels while providing a fiscal anchor for the country’s economy. In contrast, the United States lacks such…

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Robot foot soldier of Skynet, the apocalyptic artificial superintelligence of the Terminator film franchise. Maybe it’s a law of history: every innovation faces opposition. The early nineteenth-century Luddites wrecked textile machinery because it took their jobs. Our innate suspicion extends to trade, too, which is, after all, just another technology for turning one thing into another. Apartheid-era…

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Lemper ayam adalah salah satu jajanan tradisional Indonesia yang telah dikenal dan digemari oleh masyarakat luas sejak lama. Dengan bahan utama ketan yang lembut dan isi daging ayam yang gurih, lemper menjadi camilan favorit untuk berbagai kesempatan, mulai dari acara keluarga, arisan, hingga perayaan besar. Artikel ini akan membahas asal-usul lemper ayam, cara pembuatannya, variasi,…

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Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at a press conference. 2024. The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced a 50 basis point cut in its federal funds rate target on Wednesday. The move marks a reversal at the Fed, which had held its target rate range at 5.25 to 5.5 percent since July 2023….

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Jeffrey A. Singer Brian Mann of NPR News reports today on encouraging new data released by the National Center for Health Statistics showing that overdose deaths from all drugs have dropped from a high of nearly 112,000 just over a year ago to 97,309 by April 2024, a drop of more than 10 percent. Overdose…

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