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It’s the Hollywood sensation we’re all enjoying: cinema megastars lured to a TV screen near you | Fiona Sturges ⊕⊕

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

The stars get big audiences and complex characters to develop. We’ve lucked out in this golden age of streaming shows, and so have they

Shrinking, the TV series about Jason Segel’s Jimmy, a grieving p…

4 months ago

Big farmers grab the lion’s share of US government support, and recent cuts have chipped away at small growers’ markets and margins

The most significant food system failure since the pandemic was not …

Five Economic Reasons to be Thankful ⊖

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a story from Calculated Risk › Calculated Risk

Here are five economic reasons to be thankful this Thanksgiving. (Hat Tip to Neil Irwin who started doing this years ago)

1) The Unemployment Rate is at 4.4%

The unemployment rate was at 4.4% in Se…

5 months ago

Nearly 42 million people in danger as federal government shutdown continues and Snap funding to end 1 November

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Two decades ago, Sara Carlson, then a mother of three, was newly…

Note: CR is on vacation, and I will return on October 21st.

In December 2007, most analysts were still dramitically underestimating the probably losses for lenders and financial institutions.

Here …
CNBC star Andrew Ross Sorkin has warned that the US economy could be on the verge of another Great Depression .

7 months ago

It was a decade that saw the end of prohibition but also the start of the Great Depression and the looming threat of war, an unusual period for commerce, summed up in Taschen’s latest look at America…

Black spaces of the Great Depression: scenes of African American life in the 1930s – in pictures ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Depictions of rural life in the south during the Great Depression have been predominantly focused on whiteness, a fuller picture rarely seen. In a new exhibition, the private homes and public gatheri…

9 months ago

The Man of Steel – played with square-faced soullessness by David Corenswet – has an uninteresting crisis of confidence in Gunn’s cluttered, pointless franchise restarter

Here is a film occupying the …

10 months ago

From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort | Simon Jenkins ○

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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International

Keir Starmer is not blameless when it comes to Brexit, but he is moving in the right direction. Even the Tories attacking him know that

For the Tories to attack Keir Starmer’s first step towards a Bre…

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