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Eurasia Review 

Does The Central Bank Determine Interest Rates? – OpEd

By Frank Shostak

Most experts agree that, through the manipulation of the short-term interest rates, the central bank can also determine the direction of the long-term interest rates. Some popular thinking alleges that the long-term interest rates are the average of the present and the expected short-term interest rates. Hence, it would appear that the central bank is the key in determining the interest rates. But is this valid?

Individual time preferences and interest rates

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Boing Boing 

Glitchy Trump is happy about the many, um, "Azerasians"at his Arizona rally (video)

Who needs Arizonans when you have "many Azerasians" at your rally!

Below is a terrific Trump teleprompter (?) fail yesterday in Scottsdale.

According to MeidasTouch's Aaron Rupar, perhaps Trump was referring to a group at the rally wearing "Assyrians for Trump" t-shirts. — Read the rest

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Eurasia Review 

The Largest Study Ever On UBI Was Just Conducted: The Results Are Disappointing For Advocates – OpEd

By Peter Jacobsen

In the 2020 election, an interesting candidate made his way onto the scene for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination: Andrew Yang. Yang made a splash in particular for his promise to give everyone $1,000.

Andrew Yang’s campaign strategy took a similar approach to Trump’s 2016 campaign in hyper-focusing on a single issue. For Trump, the single issue was immigration. For Yang, that issue wasuniversal basic income(UBI).

Yang’s version of UBI was alluring in its simplicity. Читать дальше...