
Mar 13, 2017 06:59 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views Research & Analysis
As expected, theEuropean central bank (ECB)left all benchmark interest rates on hold following the latest Council meeting, with the main refi rate remaining at 0.0% and the deposit rate at -0.40%. According to the...

The Cherry Blossom Uprising: Monitory Democracy in Korea
Mar 13, 2017 06:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Political scientists trained or based in the Atlantic region have a bad habit of ignoring trends in our Asia-Pacific region. When they do pay attention to its dynamics, they often misleadingly measure them by their own...
The House health plan: Here's how the numbers don't add up for the poor
Mar 13, 2017 05:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Law Health
House Republicans introduced the American Health Care Act (AHCA), their proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA, also known as Obamacare). At a press conference, Speaker Paul Ryan called this bill an...

The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability
Mar 13, 2017 05:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Science
Our economy and society ultimately depend on natural resources: land, water, material (such as metals) and energy. But some scientists have recognised that there are hard limits to the amount of these resources we can use....
Dr Google probably isn't the worst place to get your health advice
Mar 13, 2017 05:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology Health
Who is your preferred source for health advice? Gwyneth Paltrow? Pete Evans? Or qualified medical practitioners like Dr Oz? I hate to break it to you, but if youre getting advice from any of these people, youre quite...

Curbing climate change has a dollar value — here's how and why we measure it
Mar 13, 2017 04:57 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
President Trump is expected to issue an executive order soon to reverse Obama-era rules to cut carbon pollution, including a moratorium on leasing public lands for coal mining and a plan to reduce carbon emissions from...
Could the individual insurance market go away in some states? Here's how that could happen
Mar 13, 2017 04:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
Much of the early analysis of the Republicans American Health Care Act (AHCA) has focused on the change in subsidies for people purchasing coverage in the individual health insurance market. The plan does away with...