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From 1960 to 1980 --> Inflation increased from 2% to 13%.From 1980 to 2000 --> Inflation dropped from 13% back to 2%.Inflation cycles are much longer and it creeps in
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#NPEC21 the statistics show that the request for homebirth increased in 2018/2019, a large increase in 2020 because of #COVID19. Demand for the service is again expected to increase in
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There are 3 ways HY investors tell us they are looking to generate excess returns this yr & all 3 on show this week. 1) Reach for yield. Rekeep book
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Canada - The average age of a death by or with covid-19 is higher than life expectancy.Deaths among those over 80 account for 70.4% of deaths by/with covid-19, but only
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A new CDC weekly COVID survey and a whopping 14.5% of school-aged children tested positive, a much higher rate than other age groups. School-aged children (5-17) have now had the
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1/5For over 15 years Chinese regulators have implemented one reform after another aimed at taming the wildly speculative Chinese stock markets in an attempt to make them converge with more
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A very broad big economic theory I loosely hold... for the past X decades, the global economy has had a speed limit set by inelastic energy supply. When things start
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Ok freelancers and consultants, we need to have a talk about the whole “charge more!” thing. I get it. We all feel undervalued and it’s true that people - especially
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Breaking: @DHSOIG slammed Puerto Rico's power utility for failing to control costs of rebuilding the electrical grid after Hurricane Maria, leaving itself open to gouging by contractors Cobra and Whitefish.
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Appeared on BBC news this evening. We managed the surge in March and April by cancelling routine surgery, however, with around 4.5 million people waiting, we need to try to
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1/9Of course regulators worry about Ant's disruptive potential. Its overwhelming success had less to do with its technological innovation and more to do with the fact that a lightly regulated
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We’ve reached another sad milestone in this pandemic. The US has surpassed a record of more than 60k Covid-19 hospitalizations for the 2nd consecutive day. (1/12) But there is some
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Picking up on yesterday's thread on NHS Test and Trace data, PHE's weekly surveillance report now out with data to 6th September.Thread/https://twitter.com/ADMBriggs/status/1304179872760291331 For week 31/08 to 06/09, there were 970
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Liquidity is fueling the stock market rally says everyone. What is this liquidity? How does it get created? How does it fuel stocks, commodities? (Thread)Hit the ‘re-tweet’ and help us
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I guy I once worked with had a tattoo in Arabic on his arm which read: The hate keeps you warm. He was a veteran with 2 tours of duty
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successful investing in any nascent industry can be summed up as 1. where along in the S-curve are you (is it inflecting positively? is each incremental datapoint de-risking the overall
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