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The Cantillon Effect: Because of Inflation, We’re Financing the Financiers
The Cantillon Effect: Because of Inflation, We’re Financing the Financiers
In the modern financial system, the current realization of the Cantillon effect looks quite similar to a regressive tax. The first to benefit are often corporations with plenty of investors, whether publicly traded or financed through private equity. Next, raw goods benefit from increased prices, including already heavily subsidized industries such as steel and aluminum. Technology also benefits, for it is utilized as an intermediate good for many companies. Even within the raw goods and technology sectors, the quickest corporations to turn investments into production—larger corporations like Amazon or Microsoft, which have the infrastructure to expand—benefit disproportionately.
·fee.org·
The Cantillon Effect: Because of Inflation, We’re Financing the Financiers
Wield Words as Weapons: The Power of Alliteration
Wield Words as Weapons: The Power of Alliteration
Using alliteration in your writing is a beautiful balance between subtlety and annoying your reader. But if you get it right, you can craft killer prose that gets your audience to read exactly the way you want.
·dabblewriter.com·
Wield Words as Weapons: The Power of Alliteration
Gen Z Trends 2025: What Marketers Need to Know
Gen Z Trends 2025: What Marketers Need to Know
Explore Gen Z trends for 2025. Discover key insights for marketers to connect with this unique, tech-savvy generation effectively.
·camphouse.io·
Gen Z Trends 2025: What Marketers Need to Know
Future Cars Worth Waiting For: 2025–2029
Future Cars Worth Waiting For: 2025–2029
Our sneak peek at the most promising cars, trucks, and SUVs of the next few years including the Corvette SUV, the Mustang Raptor, and the Nissan Maxima.
·caranddriver.com·
Future Cars Worth Waiting For: 2025–2029
Supreme Court further endorses Trump as king
Supreme Court further endorses Trump as king
Another day, another Supreme Court ruling that shows the court’s conservatives are 100% down with whatever President Donald Trump wants to do. This time, they gave Trump the green light to ...
·dailykos.com·
Supreme Court further endorses Trump as king
How being crushed by a 14,000lb snowplough made Jeremy Renner a nicer person: ‘I’ve never been more vulnerable, open and loving’
How being crushed by a 14,000lb snowplough made Jeremy Renner a nicer person: ‘I’ve never been more vulnerable, open and loving’
He was known as a tightly wound Hollywood tough guy, on and off screen – and then the star found himself fighting for his life. He talks about ‘bullying his body’ into recovery, and how the accident changed him
·theguardian.com·
How being crushed by a 14,000lb snowplough made Jeremy Renner a nicer person: ‘I’ve never been more vulnerable, open and loving’
Where Do New Words Come From?
Where Do New Words Come From?
Sometimes words are created for specific purposes, but they can become part of a language if people find them useful or simply entertaining.
·psychologytoday.com·
Where Do New Words Come From?
Poor Predictors: Job Interviews Are Useless and Unfair
Poor Predictors: Job Interviews Are Useless and Unfair
Job interviews are designed to help select the best candidates for the job. Alas, as a means of predicting future performance and success, they are hopelessly deficient.
·psychologytoday.com·
Poor Predictors: Job Interviews Are Useless and Unfair
GraphQL vs REST: Which One You Shoold Choose Now | Axon
GraphQL vs REST: Which One You Shoold Choose Now | Axon
Don't know main difference between GraphQL and REST? Is GraphQL better than REST? ⚡ Discover all the information you want in our GraphQL vs. REST comparison.
·axon.dev·
GraphQL vs REST: Which One You Shoold Choose Now | Axon
Benga: 'Nobody wants to come clean, let alone an artist'
Benga: 'Nobody wants to come clean, let alone an artist'
Last year, the pioneering dubstep DJ and producer was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia. Now, he’s speaking out on mental health issues in clubland
·theguardian.com·
Benga: 'Nobody wants to come clean, let alone an artist'
What are flotsam and jetsam?
What are flotsam and jetsam?
Flotsam and jetsam are terms that describe two types of marine debris associated with vessels.
·oceanservice.noaa.gov·
What are flotsam and jetsam?
Number formatting in Europe vs. the U.S. – Language Editing
Number formatting in Europe vs. the U.S. – Language Editing
Read this post to understand how number formatting in Europe differs from that in the U.S. in terms of the decimal point vs. decimal comma and the thousands separator.
·languageediting.com·
Number formatting in Europe vs. the U.S. – Language Editing