Author: Daniel snow
New Zealand dollar falls as RBNZ cuts rates by 50bps, UBS lowers forecast Source link
The leadership of Russia must understand that its attempt to rebuild Europe’s last empire is doomed to fail. Source link
Asia FX ticks up as Fed minutes flag likely rate cuts; yen holds near 8-mth low Source link
UK Treasury bars ministers from using emergency reserve to fund public-sector pay rises Source link
Authoritarian creep reaches a new phase Source link
Health care premiums are expected to double for millions of Americans on Obamacare next year if the law doesn’t change in time. Neera Tanden walks Ezra Klein through the policy stakes of the government shutdown. Source link
One of the ironies of this fight is that Democrats are shutting the government down to protect and extend tax credits that heavily disproportionately benefit red states, because in a bunch of these red states they didn’t expand Medicaid, and it means more people get the tax credits. So you have more than 10 percent of the population now, in Florida, in Texas, in Georgia, in South Carolina, in Utah, using the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies. Talk to me a bit about both the policy and the politics of that. I mean, the politics of health care has been really…
Readers respond to a guest essay about vaccine debates. Also: Attorney General Pam Bondi’s performance; wildfire smoke and our health. Source link
This man is days away from being executed for a crime a lot of evidence suggests he did not commit. His name is Robert Roberson. “Roberson has spent more than two decades on death row.” “He is set to be executed in less than two weeks.” It’s 2002. Robert Roberson had a 2-year-old daughter named Nikki. And she was sick. She had a high fever and pneumonia. He says he woke up one night and she’d fallen out of bed. He comforted her, put her back to sleep. But when he woke up in the morning, she had turned blue.…
Emerging market portfolio inflows drop to $26 billion, lowest level since May, IIF says Source link