Why coal-fired power stations need to shut on health grounds
Dec 01, 2016 02:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The Senate inquirys report into the planned closure of coal-fired power stations will no doubt shed light on the compelling health reasons to close them. Coal-fired stations are a health hazard to their local...
A licence to print: how real is the risk posed by 3D printed guns?
Dec 01, 2016 02:05 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
3D printed guns are back in the news after Queensland Police reported last week that they had discovered a 3D printer in a raid on what appeared to be a large-scale weapons production facility as a part of Operation Oscar...
Why literature matters in debate about race and immigrants
Dec 01, 2016 01:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
The people who voted for Donald Trump did so for a variety of reasons, but chief among them was the sense of their having been economically abandoned for several decades. Trump has promised to restore their economic...
Mexicans are migrating, just not across the US border
Dec 01, 2016 01:36 am UTC| Insights & Views
Mexican migration to the U.S. is in decline. The Pew Hispanic Research Center has found that since 2009, more than one million native-born Mexicans living in the U.S. returned to Mexico. But many other Mexicans never...
ECB would react to “shocks” caused by the Italian referendum
Nov 30, 2016 12:18 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Central Banks
ECB meeting on 8th December will be largely influenced by developments in Italys politics as we head into Italian referendum scheduled to take place on 4th December. At its semi-annual financial stability report last week,...
Nov 30, 2016 09:39 am UTC| Research & Analysis Insights & Views
The Aussie plummeted today after the mixed housing related data. AUDUSD is dropped a little at 0.7465 after the Australian Bureau of Statistics earlier reported thatbuilding approvals dropped 12.6% in October, confounding...
Nov 30, 2016 07:46 am UTC| Technicals Insights & Views
From last two weeks, although the rallies have hit 49.17 levels, theprice behavior have remained well between 46.27 and 45.54 (i.e. price range between the last weeks open to this weeks open) The break above 46.30...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects