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Human Development
Jul 10, 2026
Peter Singer
If fairness in sports required a level playing field that all who wish to compete could afford, that would be a reason for banning expensive performance-enhancing drugs. But it would be a…
News release Under plans in a consultation published today, funded reinsurance – which involves UK life insurers paying a large up-front premium to a reinsurer in return for future payments – would be treated more like other investments that UK life insurers hold, ending a regulatory inconsistency. As a result, UK life insurers using funded…
We develop a general-equilibrium model of the global economy that integrates heterogeneous firms competing in product markets with countries that allocate capital around the world. Combining a hedonic demand system on the product side with a mean-variance portfolio system on the asset side, we obtain almost closed-form solutions for the equilibrium of the model. We…
Week ended September 4, 2026 | investingLive market education Technology remained strong this week, but its leadership became narrower and more crowded. Materials showed an earlier improvement as buying began spreading beyond metals and mining. In our weekly sector assessment, Technology moved from Heating Up to Overcrowded, while Materials moved from Watch to Early Accumulation….
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