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What happens if the US election polls are wrong?

  
The Times - 09.30.2020 Original article ›
Henry Zeffman | Graphics By Ryan Watts, Daniel Clark
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This report in The Times shows that small polling errors can swing the election either way into large wins for Republicans or Democrats. A polling error of just 3 points is all it takes for a big win on either side in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

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Nigeria Protests: What’s Happening and Why Are People Demonstrating?

  
WSJ - 10.21.2020 Original article ›
Joe Parkinson
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Protests in Nigeria by young people against a police unit called Anti Robbery Squad that is supposed to fight crime and carjackings and allegations of extortion against the unit.

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Coronavirus: What are Germany's updated lockdown measures? | DW | 15.04.2020

  
DW.COM - 04.15.2020 Original article ›
Elizabeth Schumacher

Moderna and Pfizer Are Reinventing Vaccines, Starting With Covid

  
WSJ - 11.17.2020 Original article ›
Peter Loftus, Jared S. Hopkins, Bojan Pancevski

The Californians Are Coming. So Is Their Housing Crisis.

  
NYTimes.com - 02.12.2021 Original article ›
Conor Dougherty

Germany warns: AI arms race already underway | DW | 07.06.2021

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DW.COM - 06.07.2021 Original article ›
Richard Walker

Millions of Americans Are Unemployed Despite Record Job Openings

  
WSJ - 08.10.2021 Original article ›
Ana Rivas, Danny Dougherty
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About 5.7 million Americans fewer Americans were on payrolls in July 2021 even as the unemployment rate drops each month and job openings increase. There is a mismatch between job seekers goals and job openings. The service sector, especially in hospitality and leisure industry, is not seen as a favored goal by some job seekers because of its precarious nature and uncertainty of income security, health risks, during the pandemic. Job seekers were looking for stability in income, health and other goals. The US added 943,000 jobs in July 2021, yet this gives an incomplete picture of the health of the jobs part of the economy.

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Americans Are Getting Covid-19 Boosters—No Questions Asked

  
WSJ - 09.29.2021 Original article ›
Robbie Whelan

Tata’s Potential—and Problems—Are Symbolic of India Itself

  
WSJ - 09.26.2022 Original article ›
Megha Mandavia

Beijing Risks Economic Self-Harm by Weaponizing the Yuan

  
WSJ - 08.05.2019 Original article ›
Mike Bird
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China lets the yuan drop to below 7 to the dollar as it responds to president Trump threat of additional tariffs of 10% on $300 billion of Chinese goods. Previously the People's Bank of China, China's central bank, defended seven to to the dollar. The weaker Chinese currency would be an offset to the tariffs on Chinese goods.

This has risks for China as in the capital flight from China in 2015-2016. Debt denominated in foreign currencies has built up under an illusion of currency stability, especially for property developers in China with about $55 billion of such debt, according to Moody's.

China's other response was to suspend agricultural purchases from the U.S.

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When Help Does Harm

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Wall Street Journal - 03.17.2009 Original article ›
Matthew Rees, Matthew, Rees
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In "Dead Aid," a book by a native of Zambia and World Bank consultant, Dambisa Moyo, she says about $ 1 trillion in aid has gone to Africa since independence began around 1960, and there is so little to show for it. IT has helped sustain corrupt regimes in Africa, and much of the last 50 years have been wasted, and in many areas it has been a humanitarian disaster. Her personal experience helps her write about this. Her mother is chairwoman of aZambian bank, and her father runs an anticorruption organization. She believes that economic growth is aprerequisite for democracy, and that democracy lasts longer as per capita income increases.
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Elites are the real problem in the US, not conspiracy theorists

  
The Times - 06.12.2022 Original article ›
Matthew Syed
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The problem of elites in the US controlling most of the wealth and funding of candidates is discussed in The Times by Matthew Syed. The distortions in the American system of democracy and lack of funding of infrastructure, basics of education, healthcare, and public services, the misallocation of capital by capital markets in the current state, a reversal of everything Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and FDR- Truman set out to do, that is a result of the current situation prevailing in America.

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Period-Tracker Apps Aim for Anonymity Following Roe v. Wade Decision

  
WSJ - 06.26.2022 Original article ›
Cordilia James, Shara Tibken

Young Americans Are Dying at Alarming Rates, Reversing Years of Progress

  
WSJ - 05.17.2023 Original article ›
Janet Adamy

Surgeon General Warns That Social Media May Harm Children and Adolescents

  
NYTimes.com - 05.24.2023 Original article ›
Matt Richtel, Catherine Pearson, Michael Levenson

Half-Empty a Year Ago, Cruises Are Now Packed Like Sardines

  
WSJ - 05.25.2023 Original article ›
Jacob Passy

Why Are Markets So Calm? It’s Revenge of the Quant Funds

  
WSJ - 05.29.2023 Original article ›
Caitlin Mc Cabe

Taking Aim at Trump, Koch Network Will Back G.O.P. Primary Candidates

  
NYTimes.com - 02.06.2023 Original article ›
Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Kenneth P. Vogel

For Remote Workers, These U.S. Cities Are Great Places to Live

  
WSJ - 02.11.2023 Original article ›
Ray A. Smith, Tom Corrigan, Jason French

What Layoffs? Many Employers Are Eager to Hang On to Workers.

  
NYTimes.com - 02.27.2023 Original article ›
Sydney Ember, Ben Casselman

Why Gas Bills Are Going Crazy—With No End in Sight

  
WSJ - 03.15.2023 Original article ›
David Uberti, Ryan Dezember

High Commodity Prices Feed a Boom in the U.S. Farm Belt

  
WSJ - 12.21.2022 Original article ›
Jesse Newman, Jacob Bunge

Auto-Loan Interest Rates Are Skyrocketing. No One Told Credit Unions.

  
WSJ - 12.27.2022 Original article ›
Ben Eisen
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Auto loan interest rates hit a high of 8.5% by Jan 2023. Credit Unions that offer lower rates have increased their share of auto loans to 28%.

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Your Coworkers Are Less Ambitious; Bosses Adjust to the New Order

  
WSJ - 12.31.2022 Original article ›
Lindsay Ellis, Ray A. Smith
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The reduction in unpaid overtime work and working weekends as companies add more people is the new trend shown here in WSJ.

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Semiconductor Subsidies, Tariffs Are the Price of Reducing Dependence on China

  
WSJ - 07.27.2022 Original article ›
Greg Ip

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