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The countdown is underway before the heads of state and government of the EU countries at next week’s summit in Brussels must decide how to finance Ukraine over the next two years. Here, a “replacement loan” from the frozen Russian funds would be the best solution. So says Minister of Economic Affairs Stephanie Lose (V), ahead of the EU countries on Friday being expected to formally approve a long-term freezing of the Russian funds by qualified majority. – It is not an option to do nothing. We must do something to help Ukraine. – There is no perfect solution, so…
Sam works on innovation policy at Progress Ireland, an independent policy think tank in Dublin, and runs a publication called The Fitzwilliam. Most relevant to us, on his personal blog, he writes a popular link roundup; what follows is an abridged version of his Links for November. Blogs and short links 1. Is Google search getting worse? The quality of evidence around this is remarkably poor. 2. On the game theory of $1 margarita night. As this post describes, it would be great to have a standing social occasion every week at the same time and place that could serve…
UEFA Europa Conference League8:00 PMDecember 11, 2025League Stage – 5Tallaght StadiumReferee: Martin Matoša, Slovenia Copy and paste this HTML code into your webpage to embed. Shelbourne World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Crystal Palace World Class 0 Solid 0 Bang Average 0 Lucky 0 Shocking 0 Turn off spoiler to view match statistics0.40Expected goals (xG)3.89Passing264 (78%)Accurate passes476 (89%) Turn off spoiler to view match events 13 G Wessel Speel 6.5 4 D Kameron Ledwidge 6.3 29 D Paddy Barrett 6.0 8 D Mark Coyle (C) 48′ Foul 6.0 25 D Milan Mbeng 6.3 27…
Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla addressed the team’s offensive challenges after a 116-101 defeat at the hands of the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday. “I thought for the most part we found advantages, missed them… then they turned their pressure up a little bit,” Mazzulla said, reflecting on the team’s difficulty converting opportunities. Mazzulla noted […] The post Joe Mazzulla reflects on Celtics’ struggles in loss to Bucks appeared first on TalkBasket.net.
In a recent “Meet the Press” appearance, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) joined a growing number of Republicans who are speaking out against Obamacare. One of his lines of attack: that the Affordable Care Act fueled health care consolidation. “What Democrats did 15 years ago was they radically changed all health care in America. They moved all physicians under hospitals. They changed all the reimbursement programs. They shifted everything in,” Lankford said Nov. 9. This is one of a collection of Republican talking points related to the ACA that’s been regularly reprisedand there’s a reason for it. Democrats have been promised…
Just under two months ago, GDPNow’s estimate of the contribution of final sales to private domestic purchasers (sum of consumption and fixed investment) to GDP growth (q/q AR) was 2.84%, close to the Survey of Professional Forecasters’ median; now it’s 2.15%. Figure 1: Final sales to private domestic purchasers (black), GDPNow nowcast (light blue square), November Survey of Professional Forecasters median (tan), 2023-24 stochastic trend (gray), all in bn.Ch.2017$ SAAR. Source: BEA, Atlanta Fed 12/11, Philadelphia Fed, and author’s calculations. This entry was posted on December 11, 2025 by Menzie Chinn.
Rangers’ Europa League campaign looks destined to end in the league phase stage following their latest defeat, while Celtic were also beaten. Rangers are on the brink of exiting the Europa League following a 2-1 loss to Ferencvaros. Danny Rohl’s side have still yet to win in the league phase and their latest defeat let them six points adrift of the qualification spots for the knockout rounds with two games to play. Bojan Miovski’s spectacular volley in the 27th minute gave Rangers the lead, but they were pegged back in first-half stoppage time by Bence Otvos’ deflected effort. Ferencvaros, managed…
Christine Malchow and her two dogs were saved by her neighbors from rising floodwaters. The creek near her home rose 2 to 3 inches on Wednesday.A Washington state resident and her two dogs were saved from rising floodwaters in King County on Wednesday.Christine Malchow was out for a walk with her pets when they were caught in a flooded street near the Snoqualmie River.WASHINGTON DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY AS ATMOSPHERIC RIVER DRIVES HISTORIC FLOODING, WITH MORE RAIN AHEADAccording to a Twitter post by Malchow, the Tokul Creek near her home rose to 2 to 3 inches combing with the Snoqualmie…
In a bygone age, prominent conservatives in the United States clung to any number of well-worn complaints about the country’s Western European allies. According to these Cold War U.S. ideologues, Europeans taxed too much and spent the money on overly generous social security programs that supposedly rendered them soft while inhibiting innovation and growth. Frequent were the warnings that Europe was abandoning the ethos of open and competitive markets that had made it a bastion of capitalism and was edging steadily, if somewhat stealthily, toward a socialist dead end. In a bygone age, prominent conservatives in the United States clung…
by Calculated Risk on 12/11/2025 04:40:00 PM From Cotality U.S. home equity dips further this fall Cotality … today released the Homeowner Equity Report (HER) for the third quarter of 2025. The report reveals a mixed picture of homeowner equity gains across the United States.Borrower equity decreased year over year, declining by $373.8 billion or 2.1%. That decline translates to an overall net equity to $17.1 trillion for homes with a mortgage. Homeowner equity peaked at close to $17.7 trillion in the second quarter of 2024 and has since oscillated between $17 trillion and $17.6 trillion.”As the pace of home…