The Financial Times
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Martin Wolf
– Nov 29, 2020, 5:50 AM
This has been an exceptional year. Last week's spending review showed how extraordinary it was for the UK. As the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, remarked, the Office for Budget Responsibility “forecast the economy will contract this year by 11.3…
Among the many transformations taking place in the U.S. economy, none is more salient than the growth of gigantic Internet platforms. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Twitter, already powerful before the COVID-19 pandemic, have become even more…
The Financial Times
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Chris Giles in London
– Nov 28, 2020, 9:00 PM
The UK has spent more money fighting coronavirus than almost all comparable countries but still languishes towards the bottom of league tables of economic performance in 2020 and deaths caused by the virus, according to Financial Times research. On…
How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control A pragmatic philosophy more popular than ever—here are 52 ancient lessons to help you overcome adversity and find tranquility in the modern world Stress often comes from situations that are beyond…
The New York Times
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David Brooks
– Nov 26, 2020, 7:43 AM
In a recent Monmouth University survey, 77 percent of Trump backers said Joe Biden had won the presidential election because of fraud. Many of these same people think climate change is not real. Many of these same people believe they don't need to…