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  • Inside Rome’s Secure Vault for Stolen Art

    18th November, 2020

    Some of the art is real, some fake, but it’s all had a brush with the criminal underworld.

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  • Financial Stability Factors and the Severity of the Current Recession

    13th November, 2020

    Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren’s remarks — part of the UBS European Virtual Conference 2020

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  • The unique world of North Korea’s kids TV

    13th November, 2020

    North Korean children get 30 minutes of dedicated programming every day, but it’s all carefully crafted to suit the country’s defiant, military-first philosophy.  BBC Monitoring’s North Korea expert Alistair Coleman takes a look.

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  • How one man spent 600 days walking the Silk Road to see the Caucasus and Central Asia by foot

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    23rd October, 2020

    In August 2018, anthropology graduate Daniele Ventola left Italy to embark on the biggest adventure of his life — a journey to China along the Silk Road — on foot.

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  • Challenges to the Fed’s New Monetary Policy Strategy

    23rd October, 2020

    Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis: a discussion on some potential challenges the FOMC may face in pursuing a flexible average inflation targeting approach.

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  • Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Pricing and Collusion

    22nd October, 2020

    Pricing algorithms are increasingly replacing human decision making in real marketplaces. To inform the competition policy debate on possible consequences, we run experiments with pricing algorithms powered by Artificial Intelligence in controlled environments (computer simulations).

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  • Lowy Institute Live: In Conversation with General James Mattis and Sir Angus Houston

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    18th October, 2020

    On Thursday 15 October 2020, the Lowy Institute’s Executive Director Dr Michael Fullilove hosted an in conversation event via live video stream with General James Mattis, one of America’s most experienced and influential military leaders. They were joined by Sir Angus Houston, former Chief of the Australian Defence Force.

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  • 10,000 Vintage Recipe Books Are Now Digitized in The Internet Archive’s Cookbook & Home Economics Collection

    14th October, 2020

    Cookbooks are windows into history—markers of class and caste, documents of daily life, and snapshots of regional and cultural identity at particular moments in time.

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  • The economics of vending machines

    11th October, 2020

    The pandemic has boosted interest in vending machine ownership. But just how lucrative is the business?

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  • How some older Americans are monetizing their #VanLife

    11th October, 2020

    With large parts of the economy still sputtering under the weight of the coronavirus pandemic, many people are having to scale back. But some older Americans were already living a minimalist lifestyle on the road — and some of them have leveraged their nomadic approach into income.

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