Policy
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News
E.C.B. Leaves Rates Unchanged but Keeps Door Open for September
The central bank left its key deposit rate at 3.75 percent as inflation in the eurozone is expected to fluctuate throughout the rest of the year.
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News
Inflation Data Is Coming Just Before the Fed Meeting. Will It Be a Game Changer?
Federal Reserve officials are poised to announce their rate decision and economic projections mere hours after the latest inflation release.
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News
European Central Bank Cuts Interest Rates for First Time Since 2019
The reduction comes as inflation in the eurozone cools, prompting the E.C.B. to move before the Federal Reserve in the United States, where rates remain high.
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Newyork
Harvard Should Say Less. Maybe All Schools Should.
Last fall, Harvard University’s leadership found itself at the center of a highly public, highly charged fight about taking an official institutional position in connection with the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the war in Gaza. First, critics ...
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US
Help! Our Cruise Operator Went Bankrupt and We Are Out $17,905.
A couple purchased an Arabian Sea voyage, but Vantage, the cruise company, went under. Their travel insurance was supposed to cover financial default, but the claim was repeatedly denied.
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Newyork
The Cruel Spectacle of British Asylum Policy
Last week Britain’s Parliament passed a law that seeks to redefine reality. The Safety of Rwanda Act declares Rwanda a “safe” country, regardless of the evidence to the contrary — and orders British courts to do the same. Its purpose is to allow the ...
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News
Europe’s Policymakers Get Ready to Lower Rates, Regardless of the Fed
European Central Bank governors are highlighting cooler inflation as a sign the bank could cut interest rates before the Federal Reserve.
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US
5 Takeaways From a Year of Medicaid Upheaval
In the year after a pandemic-era policy preserving Medicaid coverage lapsed, more than 20 million people were dropped from the program at some point.
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US
Senate Leaders Look to Curb ‘Judge Shopping’ But In Different Ways
Senators Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell don’t think the federal judiciary is doing enough, and each is introducing a bill to address the issue.
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US
An Effort to End ‘Judge-Shopping’ Turns Into a ‘Political Firestorm’
A policy meant to prevent plaintiffs from steering their cases to sympathetic judges has drawn widespread attention, with both Republicans and Democrats accusing each other of politicizing the judiciary.