White House economic adviser struggles with question on monetary policy A video clip of White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Jared Bernstein appearing to struggle with a question about the necessity of monetary policy went viral. 05/4/2024 - 6:21 am | View Link
Joe Biden's chief economist left baffled after struggling to explain how money works In a recent cringe-inducing moment, Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to President Joe Biden, found himself in hot water as he struggled to explain the basic concept of how ... 05/4/2024 - 2:11 am | View Link
Weekly Commentary: Instability Gold and silver have recently made powerful upside moves. Commodities generally show signs of life. Having taken a backseat during the financial asset melt-up, hard assets are beginning to show their ... 05/3/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
DPI, lawmakers at odds over funding for reading programs Gov. Tony Evers signed into law a sweeping bill to remake how Wisconsin teaches reading. Nine months later, several roadblocks exist ahead of the new literacy programs the law promised as lawmakers, ... 05/2/2024 - 11:30 pm | View Link
Rates Spark: Payrolls day, and it’s potentially a big one for rates Post the FOMC, the information value from US payrolls is amplified in our opinion. It’s a report that can always generate volatility. We think this one has the capacity to create a lot of discussion. 05/2/2024 - 10:39 am | View Link
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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