Interest rates: Monetary policy is always political as central banks opt to back the financial sector

Interest rates: Monetary policy is always political as central banks opt to back the financial sector

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. As the Bank of Canada prepared to announce its decision on interest rates in early September, Tiff Macklem, the bank’s governor, received imploring letters from premiers spanning both the country and the political spectrum. New Democrat David Eby…

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Will AI kill our creativity? It could – if we don’t start to value and protect the traits that make us human

Will AI kill our creativity? It could – if we don’t start to value and protect the traits that make us human

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. There’s no doubt generative AI’s ability to rapidly produce new texts, images and audio is shaking up creative jobs. In the long-running Writers Guild of America strike, a central sticking point has been the guild’s demand that AI…

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How to create a college internship where students actually learn − and don’t want to quit

How to create a college internship where students actually learn − and don’t want to quit

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. When Angelica landed a prestigious internship with a major corporation just outside of Houston, she was ecstatic about the opportunity to launch her career in finance. Such optimism was warranted, as research shows that students with internships are…

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The fight for 2% − how residuals became a sticking point for striking actors

The fight for 2% − how residuals became a sticking point for striking actors

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Streaming disrupted the entire entertainment industry, upending the DVD-purchasing, film-renting, moviegoing model of decades past. That shift has also changed how actors get paid. And some of the gains actors made through prior labor struggles – particularly through…

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No, the RBA review won’t mean handing the bank’s decisions to part-time outsiders

No, the RBA review won't mean handing the bank's decisions to part-time outsiders

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Misinformation is circulating about recommendations concerning the Reserve Bank board made by the RBA Review, of which I was a member. Among the claims are that the new monetary policy board we have proposed would “weaken” incoming governor…

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