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Jun 26, 2024 | 
halifaxcourier.co.uk | Dean Baker
Watch more of our videos on Shots! and live on Freeview channel 276Visit Shots! nowHalifax and District Amateur Radio Society Ensures Smooth Communications for Cragg Challenge 2024The Halifax and District Amateur Radio Society (HADARS) once again played a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of the Cragg Challenge 2024. This event, which includes a series of physically demanding challenges, takes place on the infamous 8km climb, renowned as the longest continuous climb in England.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
invesbrain.com | Kirk O'Neil |Dean Baker
Huge retail chains such as Target ( ( (TGT) , Walmart WMT) and Walgreens Boots Alliance WBA) since the Covid pandemic have closed some of their stores for a variety of reasons, but financial distress leading to bankruptcy has not been the case for these companies. Theft and organized crime were identified as the reasons why Target in October 2023 closed nine stores in four states. Walgreens in early 2022 and 2021 closed seven stores in San Francisco because of crime.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
invesbrain.com | Dean Baker
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA [April 17, 2024] - The National Comprehensive Cancer Network ® (NCCN ®)-an alliance of leading cancer centers-is announcing 2024 award recipients that include individuals and groups who have made significant and noteworthy impacts on improving cancer care and supporting NCCN's mission to help all people with cancer to live better lives.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
invesbrain.com | Jena Warburton |Dean Baker
The inflation hawks took March's CPI as cause for celebration, inflation may not be dead yet. There is no doubt that it was a disappointing report for those hoping we could put the pandemic inflation behind us, but there still is not much basis for thinking the Fed needs to get out the nukes and start shooting big-time. The key point to remember is that this inflation continues to be driven overwhelmingly by rent.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
invesbrain.com | Jena Warburton |Dean Baker |Fulvia Fringuellotti |Saketh Prazad
Fulvia Fringuellotti and Saketh PrazadFollowing the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, the stock prices of U.S banks fell amid concerns about the exposure of the banking sector to interest rate risk. Thus, between March 8 and March 15, 2023, the S&P 500 Bank index dropped 12.8 percent relative to S&P 500 returns (see right panel of the chart below).
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
invesbrain.com | Roger Montgomery |Dean Baker |Jena Warburton
UVA Health researchers have discovered a potential explanation for some of the most perplexing mysteries of COVID-19 and long COVID. The surprising findings could lead to new treatments for the difficult acute effects of COVID-19, long COVID and possibly other viruses. Credit: Dan Addison | UVA CommunicationsUVA Health researchers have discovered a potential explanation for some of the most perplexing mysteries of COVID-19 and long COVID.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
invesbrain.com | Tyler Durden |Dean Baker |Colin Salao |Veronika Bondarenko
In March 2021, the world was struggling to find its legs amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Sports leagues were trying their best to keep going. It started with the NBA creating a bubble in Orlando in late 2020, playing a full postseason in the confines of Disney World in arenas that were converted into gyms devoid of fans. Other leagues eventually allowed for limited capacity seating in stadiums, including the NCAA for its Men's and Women's Basketball tournaments.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
invesbrain.com | Dean Baker |Colin Salao |Veronika Bondarenko |Daniel Kline
In March 2021, the world was struggling to find its legs amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Sports leagues were trying their best to keep going. It started with the NBA creating a bubble in Orlando in late 2020, playing a full postseason in the confines of Disney World in arenas that were converted into gyms devoid of fans. Other leagues eventually allowed for limited capacity seating in stadiums, including the NCAA for its Men's and Women's Basketball tournaments.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
invesbrain.com | Daniel Perez |Daniel Pérez |Dean Baker |Trevor Abes
Unions and collective action have long served as a vehicle for ensuring prosperity for working families and creating a . Despite these critical functions, workers engaged in collective action, like strikes, have historically been barred from accessing safety net programs like unemployment insurance (UI). In a welcome development, state lawmakers are beginning to rethink this convention, recognizing the dual roles of UI in stabilizing the economy and unions in securing broad-based economic growth.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
invesbrain.com | Dean Baker |Trevor Abes |Tyler Durden
Brian Murphy, a former FBI agent who once led the intelligence wing of the Department of Homeland Security, reflected last summer on the failures of the Disinformation Governance Board - the panel formed to actively police misinformation.
