Workers made big money, and this brought prosperity to far-flung regions producing gold, coal, gas and other commodities. The central bank is now free to set interest rates without political interference and the exchange rate is no longer fixed. The economic outlook for China, Australia's ...
COVID-19 pandemic responses have brought unprecedented challenges to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and a quantitative, multi-dimensional assessment of the impacts of these responses on SDG progress is required. Here, we use an adaptive multi-regional inpu...
In the aftermath of the Second World War, Europe was weak, the US was facing a situation where the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons and China was developing its own atomic bomb. At the same time, the US was facing a recession and the spread of communism – at home as...
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Taking a closer look at behaviours across these four segments, we see important but well-known recession trends. The first is a spike in “planfulness” when it comes to shopping, which we see in our quantitative survey data and ethnographic research. While we have been referring to COVID-...
Bankers dig in as recession looms in Europe 06:21 New YorkCNN Business— Just one month ago, Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said that the central bank was not “actively considering”raising interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage pointto fight inflation. But after Friday’scon...
Christy Tan, head of markets strategy and research for Asia at National Australia Bank, notes a fundamental shift in China towards "consumption that is more indoor-based than outdoor-based." To date, it has been livestream- ing that h...
law firms already have raised associate salaries in anticipation of increased demand for business, after responding to the pandemic with pay cuts, furloughs of administrative staff and other cost-cutting measures. Relatively few law firms orlaw jobshave disappeared, unlike during the Great Recession. ...
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While Steven Kastrissios' blistering revenge movie The Horseman has recently made it to DVD and Blu-ray in the U.S. and U.K., many fans of the genre back in its home country of Australia have yet to see the film in all its gory glory on the big screen. That is slowly changing,...