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Vital Signs: economy limps towards more rate cuts

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imageWe knew China couldn't keep growing so fast.Aly Song/reuters

Vital Signs is a new weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data impacting global economies.

This week: China’s GDP growth stalls; IMF...

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Friday essay: Jane Austen's Emma at 200

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imageAt the time of publication, Emma’s longevity was far from guaranteed.The Shopping Sherpa

Pride and Prejudice (1813) is by far Jane Austen’s most popular novel but, for literary critics, Emma (1816) is more often ranked as her greatest achievement. Or – in an era in which phrases such as “great books,” like “great...

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Mysterious blobs in our Milky Way could be part of the missing matter

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imageCSIRO's Compact Array telescope under the Milky Way.Alex Cherney, Author provided

A plethora of missing matter problems besieges astronomy. Most famously, dark matter, which was postulated to solve the problem of why galaxies spin so fast (among other things), is thought to comprise some 23% of the mass-energy of the universe.

It is yet to be...

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