Dollars Without Privilege
Imagining the Dollar Without Its Privilege - NYTimes.com:
On Tuesday, Britain became the first country to sign an agreement with China allowing investors in London to get a license that will allow them to invest directly in shares and bonds in renminbi. It’s a long way from there to the kind of open capital market China would need for its currency to become a reserve asset. . . . (read more at link above)
My Reading List
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A proposal to raise the minimum wage was killed in the Senate after 8 Democrats voted against the bill
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The proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders was abandoned in the Senate on Friday
after eight Democrats voted against raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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Live Updates as Claressa Shields Faces Off Against Marie-Eve Dicaire
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The boxers are headlining a pay-per-view event billed as featuring all
women.
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Land Rover is coming out with an extended Defender called the 130 - Roadshow
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It's just over a foot longer than the 110, which means the third row of
seats will be usable.
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March 5 COVID-19 Test Results and Vaccinations: 85 Million Doses Given So Far
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SPECIAL NOTE: The Covid Tracking Project will end daily updates on March
7th.
From Bloomberg on vaccinations as of Mar 5th.
"In the U.S., more Americans ...
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A first look at Coursera’s S-1 filing
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After TechCrunch broke the news yesterday that Coursera was planning to
file its S-1 today, the edtech company officially dropped the document
Friday eveni...
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Tesla’s Stock Tumbles Amid Sales Worries and Market Volatility
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Investors appear to be reconsidering the high share price as other
automakers offer more electric vehicles.
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Morrowind Mod Lets You Buy Argonian McNuggets
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McDonald’s is a massive fast-food empire with 38,695 locations spanning 122
countries. It’s become so ubiquitous in the real world that I’m sure the
corp...
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The Essential Sneakerhead Starter Pack, According to Jacques Slade
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If you’re even casually into sneakers, there’s a good chance you’ve seen
one of Jacques Slade’s videos in your YouTube recommendations. Maybe you’re
even...
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‘Hub and home’: New norm for workers is a grim reality for office owners
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In the face of the pandemic and workers’ reluctance to return to old
commuting habits, many blue-chip corporations are delaying making decisions
and reasse...
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SAT essay helped disadvantaged students
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Dumping the essay portion of the SAT could hurt the college prospects of
disadvantaged students, writes Jill Barshay on Hechinger Report. While
College Boa...
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Your genetics influence how resilient you are to the cold
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Some people just aren't bothered by the cold, no matter how low the
temperature dips. And the reason for this may be in a person's genes.
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Google speeds up its release cycle for Chrome
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Google today announced that its Chrome browser is moving to a faster
release cycle by shipping a new milestone every four weeks instead of the
current six-...
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PODCAST: Hexapodia IV: Checks for (Almost) Everyone! Wiþ Noah Smith & Brad DeLong
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AUDIO: The classical British social insurance state took large chunks of
human activity out of the marketplace and attempted to distribute them to
each acc...
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Next Relief Package Must Be Large Enough to Fight Virus, Relieve Hardship
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As policymakers debate the scope of the next federal response to COVID-19
and the economic crisis, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected a
str...
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Three steps to keep your YouTube account secure
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In the spirit of World Password Day, we encourage all creators to bolster
the security of their Google accounts. Unfortunately, over the past several
month...
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32+ Years...
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Huawei Working On 5G Radar Tech For Self-Driving Cars
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Current chairman Xu Zhijun said Huawei is working on millimeter-wave radar
and laser radar for use in autonomous vehicles as part of an “ecosystem” of
car-...
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Bifurcar 'blockchain': universos paralelos de cadenas ingobernables
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Los usuarios de Nano han demandado a sus desarrolladores por una pérdida de
criptomonedas valorada en 150 millones de euros. Si prospera, estarían
obligado...
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The Blog Moves On
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But the show goes on.
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The US Treasury’s missed opportunity
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The US Treasury recently published the first in a series of reports
designed to implement the seven core principles for regulating the US
financial system ...
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The 'Only' Profession to 'Celebrate What It Means to Live a Life'
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In another strange sign of the mounting culture wars, Viola Davis’s
emotional Oscars tribute to artists has become political fodder.
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The search for the best middle-class tax cut
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Say you want to help struggling middle-class families by cutting their
taxes. Say you want to figure out an actually helpful plan to do that, and
not just ...
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Jilly Cooper hits out at 'fatal' impact of local government cuts to libraries
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Cooper, who has an OBE for services to literature, has attacked David
Cameron for allowing more than 350 libraries to close across Britain
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IBM buys Ustream: is it a workforce communication play?
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IBM has added Ustream to a long list of video technology company
acquisitions in the recent past -- like Clearleap acquired last month --
buying the stream...
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Book Expo America, BookCon, Detroit Public TV Video
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Tweets about #BookCon2015 OR #BEA15
*Date: Fri May, 29 2015 11:00 AM CDT — Sun May, 31 2015 3:00 PM CDT*
*Detroit Public TV will bring live inside the boo...
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The World's Billionaires
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Carlos Slim Helu takes the No. 1 spot on Forbes' annual list of the world's
richest as a record 164 billionaires return to the ranking amid the global
econ...
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