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Please Come With Me (2019)
In this exploration of love, commitment, and trust, a long-time couple is forced to navigate the delicate waters of their relationship and the life-changing events they experience over the course…
In a small town, a young, tight-knit group of friends fall in and out of love over the course of one intoxicating, music-filled summer night.
Fast Color (2018)
A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is…
Firecrackers (2019)
Lou and her best friend Chantal plan to get out of their isolated, run-down town and move to a city far, far away. When Chantal's unstable and possessive ex violates…
Two dysfunctional couples are terrorized by a group of violent individuals during a vacation at a modern desert home.
A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity,…
Genre: Drama, Music
Through Black Spruce (2018)
In a story told from two different perspectives, Will Bird recounts the events which led to him being in a coma, while his niece Annie recounts her attempt to help…
The Dark Within (2019)
A disturbed man with unknown psychic abilities tries to unravel the mystery of his parent's disappearance while battling his own demons.
Making Babies (2018)
After years of "manually" trying to conceive, John and Katie Kelly put their bodies, wallet and marriage through the ringer of modern infertility treatments.
A pair of high-frequency traders go up against their old boss in an effort to make millions in a fiber-optic cable deal.
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I Love My Mum (2018)
A mother and son duo get inadvertently shipped in a container from London to Morocco with nothing but their pajamas. The adventure takes them through Spain and France on a…
The Professor (2019)
A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible…
Ophelia (2018)
Ophelia comes of age as lady-in-waiting for Queen Gertrude, and her singular spirit captures Hamlet's affections. As lust and betrayal threaten the kingdom, Ophelia finds herself trapped between true love…
Ice Dragon: Legend of the Blue Daisies (2018)
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The Public (2018)
An act of civil disobedience turns into a standoff with police when homeless people in Cincinnati take over the public library to seek shelter from the bitter cold.
This omnibus film tell six stories about the terror of six Indonesian ghosts: Ustaz (Kiky Armando) who is tested by Pocong terror; A woman (Putri Ayudya) is visited by Bajang…
Spy Cat (2019)
Marnie is a chubby cat, treated like a princess and getting everything she wants. When she is forced to make her own way in the world, she realizes who she…
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A doting wife goes through a hard time trying to save her husband who is possessed by two spirits.
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Mirai No Mirai (2018)
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Polis Evo 2 (2018)
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The Nightmare Gallery (2018)
An anthropology professor's obsession with a paranormal mystery threatens her job, marriage, and sanity as she fights to find a missing student.
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Nightmare Cinema (2018)
A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist…
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy. English born Joan Stanley, a Soviet and communist party sympathizer, becomes employed as a British government…
Troublesome Night series director Yip Wai Ying returns to the horror genre in the 2018 scarefest The Cursed. Surgeon Jia'er (Annie Liu, Hungry Ghost Ritual), who grew up in an…
Jaran Goyang (2018)
Furious after getting rejected by a famous dangdut singer Elena, Dirga resorts to using black magic "Jaran Goyang" from his aunt in order to get her love.
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T-34 (2018)
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The Tale (2018)
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A scheming con artist poses as the innocent babysitter "Amber" to steal from a wealthy occult enthusiast with a reclusive son, Kevin. Her crew arrives to clean out the house…
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Photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz.
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What do you do when you come across information you don't want to hear, don't like, and/or disagree with?
For some of us, that doesn't happen very often. It isn't too difficult to avoid people or media that don't fit our particular worldview. Whether that means carefully choosing friends, or only listening to certain talk radio stations, or only watching certain TV channels, or only visiting certain websites, or only accepting certain Facebook friends, we are usually pretty good at filtering out the unknown or undesirable according to our own person beliefs.
While I can't exactly blame people for doing that—it's an easy way to stay within your "comfort zone"—I do believe it is an unfortunate loss for those people. Information that doesn't fit with your worldview can't hurt you unless you are argumentatively weak enough to suffer damage when presented with an opposing viewpoint. If you are afraid of listening, then you probably can't back up your own beliefs, and you really ought either to be challenged or else to spend some time fleshing out your worldview post haste.
I am not implying that anyone who avoids some information is by definition afraid of hearing it. I know this is not true. You might want to avoid some outside influences because you are still trying to figure out exactly what you believe. You might have already heard a particular viewpoint, and you don't feel the need to spend time hearing it again at the moment.
However, I propose that if you only think you disagree with a particular viewpoint, but you haven't heard it in its entirety yet, then it is not a good idea to dismiss it or make any assumptions.
We do this with politics, economics, history, religion, sports, and just about anything else that can be argued in any way. It is chiefly visible with politics, and slightly less so with religion (less only because many people seem to be more willing to tolerate disagreements, though under the surface they are often even more dogmatic by comparison).
I often read articles that I empathize with but do not agree with. I find that when I disagree with someone, it usually isn't because they want an end result that I don't (though this does happen occasionally). It's usually because they have made assumptions that I don't believe are correct, or they have jumped to a conclusion that doesn't follow from their foundation. In the latter case, it doesn't always mean they are wrong, but it does mean they are missing some information and at least may be wrong because of it.
Sometimes though, listening completely to an opposing viewpoint can have a different affect: it can do any one (or more) of the above things to your own argument. There have been many times when I read or heard something that illuminated my own logical fallacies, incorrect assumptions, or missing information. If I had dismissed the opposing argument off-hand just because I thought I understood it or felt sure enough in my own viewpoint, I would still be wrong.
At the same time, I always believe that I could still be wrong.
There are no complex philosophical areas of my life where I am 100% confident that I am right. I am pretty sure in a few cases, but in many others, I only have some basic ideas or opinions that are incomplete. Whether they are right or not, I don't feel confident enough to argue either way because I simply don't know. It is in these areas that I am most eager to listen to anyone else's viewpoint. But even in areas where I do feel confident, I am still always willing to listen to someone who disagrees, because it means I will either further solidify my argument through logical defense, or else I will learn where my argument is weak and then educate myself—possibly changing my opinion as a result.
The moment you believe you have the absolute correct answer to any question, you stop learning new things about it. This can be a problem even in areas as static and concrete as mathematics, which is about as absolute as you can possibly get in this world. People are still discovering new things about mathematics because they never assume that they know 100% of the existing solutions. 99.9%, perhaps, but never 100%.
I am not advocating relativism here, or saying that your worldview (especially religion) must always be in a state of flux. I am only saying that it is a good idea always to keep your mind open to challenges.
If your viewpoint is right, then you will be able to defend it.
If it is incomplete, you will be able to complete it.
And if it is wrong, then you will be willing to change it.


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Jimmie Allen, Wife Alexis Talk Marriage and Parenting
by Jessica Nicholson
Jimmie Allen and his wife Alexis opened up about marriage, life and parenting for PEOPLE's family issue. The couple held a public wedding ceremony with family and friends in May 2021 in their shared homestate of Delaware, but revealed to PEOPLE that they actually wed during a private ceremony on June 18, 2020–which happened to also be Allen's birthday.
"We've actually been married for a year," Alexis told the outlet, adding, "Actually being publicly Mr. and Mrs. has been really exciting! I thought it was going to be the same, but I feel like it's a new honeymoon stage for us. We get to wear our rings out in public."
They are parents to 17-month-old daughter Naomi Bettie, 7-year-old Aadyn, from Allen's previous relationship, and will soon welcome another daughter this November.
"That's like nine more years of Disney princesses!" Allen told PEOPLE. "I'm obsessed with Disney World. I've always wanted to go inside a Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique."
He says his relationship with Alexis changed his outlook on marriage.
"I wanted to be a dad and do music, that's it. I never wanted to get married," Allen said. "The whole husband thing was not something I ever wanted to do. But Alexis changed that. Now, I like it. It gives me some security — she can't just be like, 'I'm done.' Divorce is a lot of paperwork!"
Allen also shared that he received some solid relationship advice just prior to the passing of his father, James Allen, in late 2019.
"Before my dad died, he was in the hospital. Lex came and she met my dad, and he liked her. He pulled me to the side, and said, 'Listen, you mess up a lot when it comes to relationships. Don't let this one go.' I said, 'All right.'"
Alexis revealed that early on in her relationship with Jimmie, she knew it was a good sign when Allen made her career goals a priority even as he was working toward his own aspirations as a music artist.
"When we met, I was just graduating. I had to study for my NCLEX to officially become a nurse. And he took the time, right before he went on tour, to study with me even though he had no idea what he was doing. And it made me realize — this is someone who really cares about me, who cares about my future even though he's still working on his," she said.
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Need for Speed Unbound promises to blend highly-realistic cars with 'the freshest street art'
screenshot leak spoiled the surprise, Electronic Arts has officially unveiled Need for Speed Unbound, a new addition to the long-running racing series coming in December that promises to blend "elements of the freshest street art with the most realistic looking cars in Need for Speed history."
I was a little iffy on Need for Speed Unbound's look when I first saw the leaked screens, but the trailer has me a lot closer to buying in. Keeping the cars as realistic as possible (at least visually) while surrounding them with highly-stylized characters and decidedly-unrealistic visuals is definitely an interesting approach to the genre: At the very least, it's a distinct break from the all-out hyper-realism that racing sims typically pursue.
The campaign, unfortunately, sounds a little less than innovative: "A robbery at a family auto-shop tears two friends apart and marks the rise from rookie to top racer on a journey to win the ultimate street race and reclaim the priceless car that was stolen." I mean, that's basically just a plot from one of the early Fast and Furious movies, right?
Multiplayer will also be a big part of Unbound, as players "connect with the online street racing community in underground meetups" and tear-ass through the city of Lakeshore in an online freeroam mode. Naturally, there will be cops.
A$AP Rocky, who will feature prominently in the Need for Speed Unbound soundtrack—that's his new track in the trailer, called Shittin Me—will also be in the game as part of a brand-new event in which you'll have to "prove your skills… in style." Speaking of which, there will of course be all sorts of customization options up for grabs, for both your car and your driver, although there's no indication of how they'll be earned or what sort of monetization scheme (if any) Unbound will employ.
Need for Speed Unbound is set to launch on December 2 and will be available for PC on Steam, Epic, and Origin. For a closer look at what's in store, including some Lakeshore points of interest and a full list of in-game cars, head over to ea.com.
(Image credit: Electronic Arts)
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"We need to train our children on self-rescue in emergencies and improve their self-confidence" said Dr Habibi, Head of the Youth organization of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) at the opening session of a five-day training workshop on Child Protection in Emergencies organized jointly by IRCS and UNICEF Iran office in Tehran on 30th October. He added: "the Youth Organization of the Red Crescent Society is currently active in 3500 kindergartens and pre-schools training 5-7-year-olds on basics of rescue and help in emergencies using songs, playing and painting. We are also training 400,000 high school students each year on 8 major skills of rescue and help in emergencies".
In this ceremony, Deputy for Students and Youth affairs of IRCS Youth Organisation, Dr Amir Lalehgaani, appreciated UNICEF's long-standing support and cooperation with the IRCS and said the exchange of knowledge and expertise among different organizations and stakeholders would help minimize physical and mental harms among children in the aftermath of crises.
Participants of the workshop ranged from deputies of the Youth Organization of IRCS from different provinces, to experts from the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Interior, the State Welfare Organization and Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation.
Workshop Facilitator was Ms. Joanna Wedge an international expert who has more than 15 years of experience in coordinating trainings for the Child Protection sub-clusters.
The trainer of this workshop was Ms. Joanna Wedge an international expert who has more than 15 years of experience in coordinating trainings for the Child Protection in emergencies and sub-clusters. Four Iranian facilitators, experts on child protection in emergencies, assisted her in conducting the training. The key topics discussed in the workshop included Child Protection Minimum Standards in Emergency, Development and strengthening of Child Protection Strategies, physical and psychosocial protection and community-based strategies for child protection.
The five-day workshop held in Tehran from 30th October to 3rd November 2016 was part of the joint UNICEF- IRCS 2015-2016 work plan and second in a series, the first of which was held in Kish Island in December 2015. The workshops are expected to pave the grounds for further cooperation between IRCS, UNICEF, and other key actors in the emergency sector to strengthen national coordination on Child Protection in Emergency preparedness and response.


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While Canada is not the first country to come to mind when terrorism incidents are discussed, it would be a mistake to believe that Canada is immune to the existing terrorism threat. Canada has fallen victim to both terrorist attacks and multiple terrorist attempts, such as in the Toronto 18 case (R v Amara, R v Ahmed, R v Gaya, R v Khalid). Post 9/11 case law demonstrates that there is a judicial shift in how terrorists are sentenced, which is directly effected by the amendments made to the Criminal Code. It is through the implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Act 2001, that terrorism offences can be prosecuted under specific terrorism offences. .
It was in 1970 that James Cross and Pierre Laporte were kidnapped by The Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ). The government's reaction to this event was one of importance. The Canadian government declared a state of emergency by relying on the War Measures Act. Over 6000 troops were sent into Montreal after this was deemed an emergency.
In terms of the sentencing of those involved in the October Crisis, the perpetrators received what are believed to be lenient sentences. Firstly, the individuals who kidnapped and killed Pierre Laporte were convicted of multiple serious offenses under the Criminal Code, including murder. Subsequently, they were all paroled by 1982. Secondly, those who kidnapped James Cross were granted the opportunity to go to Cuba in exchange for the diplomat's release. They received up to three years incarceration when they came back to Canada. The law as it existed before the enactment of the Anti-Terrorism Act 2001 was applied in the cases of the FLQ. An important point to note is that there were temporary measures (the War Measures Act) that were relied upon during this crisis. It was not until the ATA was implemented that permanent measures could be taken in bringing terrorists to justice.
Canada responded to the 9/11 attacks by enacting for the first time the ATA 2001. This Act created multiple terrorism crimes in the Criminal Code and laid out sentencing guidelines. Essentially, the ATA created a new class of offenders. The Toronto 18 cases will be of focus.
Fahim Ahmad was convicted of three terrorism offences: participating in the activities of a terrorist group, importing firearms for the benefits of a terrorist group, and knowingly instructing six individuals to carry out a terrorist attack. Ahmad was sentenced to 16 years imprisonment, with time served in pre-trial custody deducted at a rate of two for one.
Saad Khalid pleaded guilty, but refused to admit that he knowingly participated in a terrorist activity that would likely cause death or serious bodily harm. The trial judge laid a 14-year sentence of imprisonment down to Khalid. The Court of Appeal raised the sentence from 14 to 20 years. It was found that the sentencing judge did not impose a sentence that accurately reflected Khalid's involvement and the severity of such crimes. Additionally, the sentence failed to reflect the essential role Khalid played as a member of the Toronto 18.
Zakaria Amara too was a mastermind and leader in the Toronto 18 bomb plot. He was driven by Jihadist ideologies, and educated himself on bomb making. He pleaded guilty to the following counts: participating in the activity of a terrorist group and intent to cause an explosion that is likely to cause bodily harm for the benefit of a terrorist group. For the first count, the appellant received a 21-month term of imprisonment. He was credited for time served pre-trial, for a total of 7 years 3 months. On the second count, Amara received a sentence of life imprisonment, with a parole ineligibility of 10 years.
Saad Gaya pleaded guilty to one count of intending to cause an explosion that is likely to cause bodily harm for the benefit of a terrorist group. He was sentenced to 4.5 years imprisonment; with a credit of 7.5 years for time-served. On appeal, the court raised the sentence from 12 to 18 years. The Court of Appeal found that the sentencing judge overemphasized rehabilitation, and underemphasized the severity of Gaya's actions.
From an analysis of the Toronto 18 case law, it is evident that there is a norm to increase the sentences imposed by the sentencing judge. Additionally, there is a heavy reliance on denunciation and deterrence, with less emphasis on rehabilitative prospects. The post 9/11 case law demonstrates a dependence on the following sentencing principles as laid out in section 718 of the Criminal Code. First, a primary emphasis is put on denunciation of offenders. Second, just as important is the principle of deterrence. This includes deterring the offender, as well as others. Rehabilitation is a principle that has been disputed in terms of its appropriateness and applicability in terrorism cases. While courts must strive to uphold the principles of denunciation and deterrence, there could be a possibility of rehabilitation, and for that reason it should be considered at the discretion of the judge.
The issue of rehabilitation played a central role in the case of Khawaja. The Supreme Court refused to accept the Ontario Court of Appeal's de-emphasis on rehabilitation when sentencing terrorists. The court recognized the wide breadth of the terrorist offences as they are laid out in the Criminal Code, and thus rehabilitation cannot be ruled out as a sentencing principle. Although Khawaja's conduct was that of high severity, rehabilitation was not an inappropriate factor to consider. It is important that the Supreme Court has not ruled out rehabilitation as a sentencing principle in terrorism offences. Because of the wide variety of acts that can fall into the terrorism offences, it would be inappropriate to exclude a principle of sentencing that is laid out in the Criminal Code. It is understandable that it may not be fitting or well suited in every case involving terrorism, however it is significant that the Supreme Court has left this principle to the discretion of the judge.
A call for change was made after the events that took place on 9/11. In the pre-911 cases, Canada had a rather flawed approach to sentencing those involved. By acting quickly to create terrorism offenses, Canada made a move towards being able to successfully bring terrorists to justice for the danger, threat and harm that they cause, and may potentially cause. As Chief Justice McLachlin mentioned, the horror of 9/11placed a significant challenge on courts and the criminal justice system to balance freedom and security. Canada will continue to be faced with this challenge as long as there is a terrorist threat. However, it is important that Canada has the necessary tools in place to be able to bring terrorists to justice and hand down appropriate sentences.


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I'm using a mix of JS and PHP SDK to authorize and authenticate a user. The user needs to be already logged into Facebook to use my app. If not, they need to log in with Facebook login button. As a bridge between JS and PHP SDKs I'm using FacebookJavaScriptLoginHelper.
Part of my Facebook.php library doing the job:
<?php

    // Initialize the SDK
    FacebookSession::setDefaultApplication($this->app_id, $this->app_secret);

    // Create the login helper
    $this->helper = new FacebookJavaScriptLoginHelper();

    try {
        $this->session = $this->helper->getSession();
    } catch(FacebookRequestException $ex) {
        // When Facebook returns an error
    } catch(Exception $ex) {
        // When validation fails or other local issues
    }
    if ($this->session) {
      // User logged in
      $this->session = new FacebookSession($this->session->getToken());
    }

?>

Facebook JS init:
<script type="text/javascript">

    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {
        FB.init({
            appId: '{my app id}',
            status: true,
            xfbml: true,
            cookie: true
        });
    }

    FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
        console.dir(response);
    });

</script>

The above code works fine but there's a specific case when it fails. Let's assume I have two tabs open in my browser: in the first tab I have my app open, in the second one - I'm logged into Facebook. Two scenarios can take place:
I log out of Facebook and refresh the tab with my app. The result is correct:

*

*FacebookSession is NULL

*response.status from FB.getLoginStatus is 'unknown'. The user is not
logged in.

I go to the second tab, log back into Facebook and refresh the first tab with my app. The result is incorrect, but only on the first refresh:

*

*FacebookSession is still NULL, even if

*response.status of FB.getLoginStatus is 'connected'
The reason behind this fail on first refresh seems to be obvious: In the moment of reloading the page PHP SDK is triggered before Facebook cookie is refreshed. However, it's never a problem when the user logs out - in this case, somehow FacebookSession is updated instantly, as expected.
How come it does not work the same when the user logs into Facebook?

A: Does this help?

Subsequent calls to FB.getLoginStatus will return data from this cached response. This can cause problems where the user has logged into (or out of) Facebook since the last full session lookup, or if the user has removed your application in their account settings.
To get around this, you call FB.getLoginStatus with the second parameter set to true to force a roundtrip to Facebook - effectively refreshing the cache of the response object.

FB.getLoginStatus(function(response) {
  // this will be called when the roundtrip to Facebook has completed
}, true);

Source: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/FB.getLoginStatus
Section: Roundtrips to Facebook's servers

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IHT update: UK Government confirms effective date of proposed changes to UK non-dom tax rules
The recent UK election and related legislative changes have delayed implementation of new rules imposing inheritance tax on UK residential property held in offshore structures. However, on 13 July 2017, the UK government announced that the new rules will be included in the next Finance Bill due to be published in September and, importantly, also confirmed that the changes will have retroactive effect from 6 April 2017.
Changes to the UK tax treatment of UK residential property held in offshore structures by non-domiciled individuals were initially proposed in the 2016 Finance Bill. The changes were expected to be finalised in the 2017 Finance (No 2) Bill prior to 6 April 2017, however, in the busy lead-up to the UK general election in June the proposed changes were removed from the bill.
Those affected by the changes who have yet to review and restructure their affairs, should now take the opportunity to consider whether steps should be taken to mitigate the effects of the impending rule changes by contacting their UK tax advisers.
For individuals caught by the new '15/20 rule' at 6 April 2017, it may already be too late. However, those who will be caught from the start of the 2018/19 or subsequent tax years are advised to seek advice now to establish what action should be taken to shelter their assets from UK inheritance tax (IHT).
Offshore companies and trusts will continue to provide a shelter from UK IHT for non-domiciled individuals. Assets (with the exception of UK residential property – see below) settled in trust while an individual is non-domiciled will continue to qualify as 'excluded property' for UK IHT purposes even if the settlor subsequently becomes deemed UK domiciled. There are currently no proposals afoot to change this rule.
Existing offshore companies, partnerships and trusts holding UK residential property
Many clients chose not to 'de-envelope' properties held in offshore structures despite the introduction and subsequent increase in the Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED) charge in order to preserve the IHT shelter provided. It has now been confirmed that the protection from IHT will be removed with effect from 6 April 2017. If the primary purpose of an offshore holding company/trust is to provide shelter from UK IHT, then, taking account the ongoing costs of maintenance and the imposition of ATED charges (which can be significant in relation to high value properties), now is the time to consider un-winding or reorganising the structure.
Harneys has significant experience helping clients to restructure their offshore holdings in preparation for the new rules. Specifically we are able to assist with:
Restructuring holding companies
Advising on the use of bare nominee companies
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Net Zero Tech leads Government's green strategy
By Antony Savvas
The prime minister has set out a £12 billion ten point plan for a "green industrial revolution", that also aims to create and support up to 250,000 British jobs.
Covering clean energy, transport, nature and innovative technologies, the blueprint supports the government's aim of the UK achieving net zero by 2050, when it comes to helping tackle global climate change.
The plan is part of the government's run-up to next year's COP26 climate summit in Glasgow.
The £12 billion strategy that is designed to create those 250,000 "highly-skilled" green jobs hopes to "spur over three times as much private sector investment by 2030", said prime minister Johnson.
At the centre of his blueprint are the UK's industrial heartlands, including the North East, Yorkshire and the Humber, the West Midlands, Scotland and Wales.
The ten areas for action are:
-Offshore wind: Producing enough offshore wind to power every home, quadrupling how much is produced in the UK from to 40GW by 2030, which the government claims will support up to 60,000 jobs.
-Hydrogen: Working with industry to generate 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030 for industry, transport, power and homes, and aiming to develop the first town heated entirely by hydrogen by the end of the decade.
-Nuclear: Advancing nuclear as a "clean" energy source, and developing the next generation of small and advanced reactors, which "could" support 10,000 jobs.
-Electric vehicles: Backing car manufacturing bases, including in the West Midlands, North East and North Wales, to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles and transforming national infrastructure to better support electric vehicles.
-Public transport, cycling and walking: Making cycling and walking more attractive ways to travel and investing in zero-emission public transport of the future.
-Jet Zero and greener maritime: Supporting "difficult-to-decarbonise" industries to become greener through research projects for zero-emission planes and ships.
-Homes and public buildings: Making homes, schools and hospitals greener, warmer and more energy efficient, "whilst creating 50,000 jobs by 2030", and a "target" to install 600,000 heat pumps every year by 2028.
-Carbon capture: Becoming a "world-leader" in technology to capture and store harmful emissions away from the atmosphere, with a target to remove 10MT of carbon dioxide by 2030, equivalent to all emissions of the industrial Humber today.
-Nature: Protecting and restoring our natural environment, planting 30,000 hectares of trees every year, whilst "creating and retaining thousands of jobs".
-Innovation and finance: Developing the cutting-edge technologies needed to reach these new energy ambitions and making the City of London the "global centre of green finance".
On the electric vehicles front, Johnson confirmed the UK will end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030, ten years earlier than planned. Hybrid cars and vans that can drive a "significant distance" with no carbon coming out of the tailpipe will be allowed until 2035.
In addition, £1.3 billion will be spent to accelerate the roll-out of charge points for electric vehicles in homes, streets and on motorways across England.
Also, nearly £500 million will be spent in the next four years for the development and "mass-scale production" of electric vehicle batteries.
Prime minister Boris Johnson said: "Our green industrial revolution will be powered by the wind turbines of Scotland and the North East, propelled by the electric vehicles made in the Midlands and advanced by the latest technologies developed in Wales, so we can look ahead to a more prosperous, greener future."
Stephen Kelly, chair of UK technology industry body Tech Nation, said of the plan: "It's promising to see a multi-billion pound package of green investment announced by the government that brings much needed support to clean technologies working towards the net zero goal, and which builds on the 'levelling up' agenda across Britain.
"NetZero technology companies are a critical part of the equation and they need backing to create solutions to the greatest challenge of our time."
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We stopped buying chocolate after seeing a March 2010 BBC Panorama report about child slavery on cocoa plantations in western Africa. Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire produce 60 percent of the world's cocoa, and much of the picking is done by children who are sold to plantations by their impoverished parents or human traffickers. Some cooperatives that had been approved for Fair Trade status were later found to have used child labor and suspended from receiving the designation by the Fair Trade Foundation. That meant their cocoa could not be used in chocolate that received the Fair Trade label, which indicates that production followed certain standards and producers were being paid a "fair" price for their wares. The BBC's point was that almost any chocolate that did not bear the Fair Trade label was likely to have been produced by slave labor.
Once or twice a year, however, we do buy Fair Trade chocolate from People Tree Japan through a local food cooperative. People Tree is a non-profit group that specializes in Fair Trade products from all over the world. According to the organization's literature, the cocoa that goes into their chocolate bars is produced in various South American countries and Ghana, and then processed in Switzerland under the People Tree brand. Shipments of the chocolate to People Tree are not continuous. When the NPO receives a periodic shipment they announce it through their various distributors, and apparently stocks sell out rather quickly. The chocolate isn't cheap: ¥290 for a 50-gram bar. At your local supermarket you can buy the same size chocolate bar made by Meiji, Morinaga or any other major confectionery company for as low as ¥100. Does the People Tree chocolate taste better? That's a matter of personal preference, but chocolate is chocolate. In any case, it's apparent that people buy it because of the Fair Trade label.
A government-sponsored marketing conference called Service Productivity and Innovation for Growth conducted a survey in Japan earlier this year that attracted some 100,000 respondents, who were supplied with the names of 291 service-related companies comprising 29 industry sectors. They were asked to rate these companies for 100 separate criteria in order to determine "high customer satisfaction." The number one company, with 82.3 average points, was Oriental Land, which runs Tokyo Disneyland.
At number 13 was Super Hotel, the highest ranking accommodation-related business (though Oriental Land does operate Disney Resorts), even higher than the Imperial Hotel. In a way, it's an unfair comparison. The infamously expensive Imperial is a "city hotel" while Super Hotel runs a chain of 94 "business hotels." Anyone who has stayed in both knows the difference: city hotels stress comfort while business hotels stress convenience and economy.
However, even among business hotels Super is special, which explains its high rating. People were just surprised at how good it was for the price, and the price is pretty amazing: as low as ¥4,900 a night for a single room, including breakfast (Japanese or Western). In most of the bigger cities the price is comparably more expensive, but not much. Tokyo, for instance, has nine Super Hotels (10 on Apr. 29, when the Super Hotel in Okachimachi opens), the most expensive of which is in Shimbashi (¥9,000 single) and the cheapest of which is Kameido (¥6,490 single). And when you start going to double and triple rooms, called Super Rooms, the savings get better. A single at the Hakodate Super Hotel is ¥5,480, a double is ¥7,480, and a triple ¥8,480. If you reserve a single room for a whole month in Hakodate you can get it for ¥3,980 a day.
Is it worth it? If you've ever stayed at a business hotel, with their tiny windows, plastic "unit baths" and lack of elbow room, you know what to expect, but Super Hotels, which started in Osaka in 1989, offers a little bit more because of its policy of not sweating the extraneous stuff. All the beds are semi-doubles, 34 of the hotels have free public baths (which tend to get raves from regulars), and many rooms have free Internet access. The extraneous stuff they feel you can do without include air conditioning in the elevators and hallways, personnel (the front desk is only manned, depending on the hotel, from 7-10 a.m. and 3-12 p.m.), and guest room telephones. Also, guests prepay for their rooms, usually via vending machines in the lobby, and many of the hotels do not take credit cards.
But Super Hotels is obviously a progressive company. Several branches have rooms and even floors that are exclusively for female guests, and two hotels, one in Fuji City and another in Takamatsu, are completely smoke-free. Also, some are aiming for the tourist market, like the Super Hotel in Nara, with a more upscale atmosphere built around the eco-marketing concept called Lohas.
Super Hotel also has an English Web site.


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7 uplifting good news stories you might have missed this week - from medical breakthroughs to rescued dogs
'Covid tongue' is being increasingly spotted by sufferers - the symptom explained
Germany has extended its UK travel ban - full list of EU countries doing the same
By Iain Leggat
Wednesday, 23rd December 2020, 11:28 am
Updated Wednesday, 30th December 2020, 10:03 am
Germany has extended its ban on visitors entering the country from the UK to 6 January 2021. The decision comes despite the EU advising countries to lift restrictions in order to allow EU and UK citizens to return home in the run up for Christmas.
The Foreign Office travel advice for the country states, "The German government has extended its ban on air passenger flights arriving from the UK to Germany to a ban on all forms of transport until Wednesday 6 January 2021.
"During this period, transport operators are banned from offering plane, bus, ferry and train journeys from the UK to Germany."
Dozens of countries blocking travel from UK
Germany is the latest addition to the list of countries that have blocked people arriving from the UK.
Countries around the world are shutting their borders due to fear over the new coronavirus variant, said to be much more transmittable.
The new variation is known as VUI0202012/01, and has been predominantly found in London and southeast England. It has also been found in smaller numbers in Wales, Scotland and every region of England.
Ireland's ban on travel to and from the UK has also been extended to 31 December.
France halted lorry drivers in the UK from taking their freight across the Channel, which led to huge delays in Dover. This travel ban has now been eased, though drivers require a negative Covid test result to travel from Kent to France.
Italy has grounded all flights to and from the UK until 6 January, while banning entry for anyone who has been in the UK in the last fortnight.
Spain has suspended flights from the UK, tightening border controls with Gibraltar.
The Netherlands has currently banned flights from the UK until the new year, and Switzerland has stopped foreign nationals arriving from the UK and South Africa.
From Monday 28 December, Norway will halt incoming flights from the UK, and Sweden has suspended all incoming travel from the UK until further notice.
Germany has extended a ban on air passenger flights to a ban on all forms of transport until 6 January.
Austria, Bulgaria, and Malta have all banned passenger flights from the UK.
Poland, Portugal, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, North Macedonia: stopping flights from Britain indefinitely.
'Flight and train bans should be discontinued'
The travel bans defy a plea from the EU Commission which, following talks on Tuesday 22 December, said it was important for countries to "take swift temporary precautionary action" to help limit the spread of Covid-19.
However, the advice added, "Flight and train bans should be discontinued given the need to ensure essential travel and avoid supply chain disruptions."
Didier Reynders, the EU commissioner for justice, also noted that the blanket travel bans "should not prevent thousands of EU and UK citizens from returning to their homes" in the run up to Christmas.
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Contesting the legacy and patronage of Saint Cyprian in Vandal Carthage
David Lee Riggs (see profile)
https://doi.org/10.17613/gae5-f945
The Vandal period of African Christianity has long existed as a sort of Dark Ages in which the primary narratives of the Church are flush with persecution, exile, and destruction. Nevertheless, a notable surge of interest in the history of the Vandals in recent decades has prompted revisionist work that has broadened the purview of scholarship well beyond the paradigm Victor of Vita offers. Amid such work, the state-supported Homoian Church has begun to emerge as something more than a one-dimensional body of heretical barbarian persecutors. Some recent studies have highlighted how the Homoian Church sought to establish itself as a genuinely 'African' communion that appealed to a broad cross-section of the population. Along these lines, this study explores a selection of homilies from three anonymous preachers of the Vandal period (a Homoian bishop and two Nicene clerics) which provide a first-hand glimpse into an ecclesial rivalry in which both churches sought to leverage the legacy and authority of Saint Cyprian as each strived to establish its communion as the rightful heir of the African Christian tradition. As this study offers fresh testimony to our understanding of religious life in Vandal Carthage, it will ultimately contend that conventional characterisations of the Vandal kingdom as an era of decline and persecution for African Christianity must yield to interpretations that are more attentive to the growing evidence for the prosperity, credibility, and popularity of the Homoian church in North Africa.
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Waste Connections has begun distribution of poly carts to the residents of Cameron, Texas.
Delivery is based on the resident's normally scheduled service day. Below is an estimated delivery schedule. As delivery is executed by our team members and influenced by weather, this is only an estimate. Waste Connections will continue to communicate with the City of Cameron on distribution schedules and updates.
Each resident will receive one poly cart, at no additional charge, as negotiated by the City Council and City Leadership. Each resident's poly cart will be delivered by Waste Connections in a Waste Connections vehicle equipped with recording equipment to ensure delivery to each resident is documented and recorded. If a resident requires more than one poly cart – the resident must contact the City of Cameron to arrange for any additional poly cart tracking and pricing.
Waste Connections anticipates delivery completed on or before November 16, 2018.
We appreciate the patience residents have while we implement this effort for beautification.
Please continue to check the City of Cameron's website and Facebook page for ongoing updates.
Please do not place any hazardous materials in the garbage for collection (oil, paint, chemicals, tires, lead-acid batteries, etc.). In addition, the landfill will not accept TVs or monitors. AC units or refrigerators must be tagged by a certified air conditioning specialist certifying that the refrigerant has been removed.
Please refer to city map for twice a week collection areas.


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One Startling GIF Shows How Much the US Spends on Imprisoning vs. Educating People
By Zeeshan Aleem
Hardly a day goes by without a member of the media or policy world pronouncing that America's education system is in dire straits.
There are constant laments over how poorly the U.S. fares by international standards, its failure to produce literate students and its unsightly levels of racial segregation. There's a massive debate over how to overcome these problems, but there's no doubt that at least one factor would help: more money.
But where would the money come from? America's broken and bloated prison system might be a good start.
Keeping someone alive in prison is expensive — much more so than educating them. The GIF below uses data from the Vera Institute of Justice's 2012 "Price of Prisons" report and 2012 U.S. Census data on public school costs. (Several states did not complete the survey, and thus are missing from this chart.) You can see that average resources devoted to prisoners annually easily outpace resources for students:
Housing a prisoner costs roughly five times as much as educating a student in California, Washington and Utah. In dozens of other states, the cost of imprisoning someone is far more than double or triple the cost of educating a student.
Mass incarceration is costly — and it doesn't work: Comparing the housing of prisoners to the education of students might seem like comparing apples and oranges. After all, a student is spending about a third of a day at school, while a prisoner is being kept alive 24/7.
In light of that fact, there are two points worth noting:
First, the U.S. should simply not be spending any money on incarcerating many of the millions in prison all over the country. Since the 1970s, the U.S. has built a system of mass incarceration that is unrivaled the world over: About 25% of the world's prisoners are incarcerated in America, even though it hosts only 5% of the world's population. Brutal sentencing practices — lengthy minimum sentences, harsh penalties for minor drug possession, three strikes laws — have filled up our prisons at rates that outpace Russia and China. In other words, every state is spending huge sums of money on people who should either not be incarcerated in the first place or should at least be serving far shorter sentences.
Second, the U.S. incarceration system is basically an inversion of its education system. As flawed as the public school system is in this country, children routinely emerge with knowledge and skills that allow them to contribute more effectively to society. By contrast, the voracious prison system systematically fails to rehabilitate its inmates. Nearly two-thirds of the inmates released every year return to prison. Those that manage to remain outside of it are often far worse off than before they were incarcerated, as they endure discrimination in housing, employment and political participation.
Perhaps if more money were spent on creating and sustaining an education system that met all of its students' needs, we wouldn't need to spend so much money on putting people behind bars.
This article has been updated.


Showdown Mas Camp continues this evening at its new venue, Five Star Grill and Bar in Jimmit from 9 pm.
The show was previously held at the Old Mill Cultural Centre but had to be relocated because of renovation work being undertaken at the Old Mill due the damage caused by Hurricane Maria.
Chairperson of showdown Mas Camp, Dr. Valda Henry, said by next year the Old Mill Cultural Centre should be available once more for the Mas Camp.
She urged calypso lovers as well as non-calypso lovers to come and give their support.
She added that for people who may have difficulty with transportation, shuttle buses will be made available from VF Inc's office on Cork Street to Jimmit from 7:30pm to 9pm.
Dr. Henry also revealed that Mas Camp will be at the Bolo Bar in Pointe Michel on Saturday.
Madam chair dont believe is renovation work. This is pure political so they push you all out and say is renovation, but the writing is on the wall so as they begin to stop the art form at the cultural centre, is so they are losing popularity and the electorate are starting to get fed up of them because they are crippling the art form calypso.


I'm still catching up on things, but here are a few pieces worth reading.
My guess is that Obama doesn't know, think or care much about monetary policy. That's usually a good disposition for someone in the Oval Office to have. A president who was too interested in monetary policy would be tempted to interfere with the Fed. Indifference beats the attitude of many Republicans, who are still convinced, contrary to all the evidence, that rampant inflation is just around the corner.
While presidential apathy about central banking is usually a virtue, once every 70 years or so the economy suffers through a calamity of tight money. We found ourselves in that circumstance when Obama took office. The country could have been well served by a president who favored monetary looseness, a policy the Democratic Party has supported for about a century. Because of Obama's indifference, we had no such luck.
A lot of conservatives have adopted screwy ideas about monetary policy during the Obama years. They have been urging the Fed to tighten a policy that is already too tight. But the monetary mistakes of liberals have been the most consequential ones during these years. The likely nomination of Summers doesn't suggest that we'll see an improvement anytime soon.
Many analysts on the left and right accept this basic story but disagree about what caused the mortgage bubble. Conservatives tend to emphasize Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Reserve's low-interest-rate policy. Liberals tend to emphasize predatory lenders who tricked people into borrowing more than they could afford, Wall Streeters who took on too much risk, and regulators who allowed all of it to happen. These are not mutually exclusive explanations, of course, so it is possible to mix and match.
Yet it may be that both sides are mistaken, and mistaken precisely in their point of agreement: that the housing boom and bust is the fundamental explanation for our recent economic troubles. It may be that this crisis was indeed brought to us by government policies, but not the ones that the dominant voices on either side of the political divide have in mind.
If so, it will not be the first time that an economic depression was misunderstood by the people living through it. The modern view of the Great Depression, held by almost everyone in the field of economics, is that monetary contraction was the chief cause of the disaster. At the time, though, the prevailing view was that the depression resulted from a stock-market crash and banking crisis that in turn resulted from financial speculation.
Contemporary observers, including most influential economists, certainly did not see extremely tight money as the root cause of the Depression. Indeed, they did not believe that money was tight at all. Interest rates were very low, and the monetary base was growing: both things that many people, then and now, associated with expansive monetary policy. Officials and commentators worried that loosening money "" loosening it, they thought, still further "" would lead to more of the speculation that had started the calamity.
It was not until decades later, with the 1963 publication of Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States, that the monetary mistakes of the era were understood. Interest rates were low not because money was loose but because it was tight: Monetary contraction had depressed the economy and thus expected returns to investment.
It's good to see the press paying more attention to MM views of the crisis.
If you want to know the likely outcome of the next general election or the Eurovision song contest, consult a bookmaker. Bookies' odds have a long and honourable record of being ahead of the game, for good reason: they reflect the opinions of specialists and insiders who are prepared to back their views with hard cash.
Could the principle work for economic forecasting?
The Adam Smith Institute, in mischievous mode, has encouraged Paddy Power to open betting markets covering the rate of UK inflation and the rate of unemployment on 1 June 2015. It's 9-4 that CPI inflation will be 3.01%-4% and 5-2 that unemployment will still be in the 7%-8% range.
"The Bank of England's economic forecasts have been wrong again and again," says the thinktank. It wonders if the fabled "wisdom of crowds" can do better.
The Adam Smith Institute is dreaming if it thinks the government would ever get rid of its experts and outsource its forecasts to "prediction markets".
It may seem like a dream today, but it's only a matter of time before the economics profession wakes up to the fact that markets are better than bureaucrats at stablizing the path of NGDP. In the future, monetary policy decision-making by committee will seem something like voodoo, another barbarous relic.
Any macroeconomy can be broken down into two main markets: a real market for current goods and services, and a financial market for claims on future goods and services. For brevity, I will reduce the model for financial assets to the market for money, which, because of money's role as a store of value and medium of exchange, captures the notion of "claims on goods". To simplify further, I take all the markets for goods and reduce them down to one composite market, say, for apples. From this caricature, we can start thinking about how markets fit together.
In normal times, people receive apples and money from the sky in the form of endowments (i.e. their wealth), and they make decisions about how to spend their cash and apple balances. Apples are transacted, bellies are filled, and life is good.
But suddenly, a recession hits. What does this look like? By definition, a recession is when there is a general glut of goods that aren't consumed.
The goods market by itself is not enough to generate a recession with a general glut of goods. Only when there is the possibility of excess demand in money markets can recessions actually occur. Therefore the market for money is what gives a macroeconomy its business cycle feel. This is why money is so important for macro — fluctuations in the money market are the proximate cause for any general fluctuation in the goods market. This is why, as Miles Kimball says, money is the "deep magic" of macro. While this "apples and money" approach is the canonical presentation of general equilibrium, it is not the only representation. For another interpretation, think about what the financial market really is. Since it represents the entire universe of claims on future goods, finance can be understood as a veil between the present and the future. So instead of focusing on the relationship between goods and financial markets at one point in time, we can cut out the middle man and instead think of general equilibrium as a sequence of goods markets that occur across multiple points in time. In this version, there is no financial market per se, but buying an apple in "tomorrow's goods market" represents buying a financial contract in the canonical model. Therefore, instead of thinking about the markets for goods and money, we can instead think about the markets for goods today and tomorrow.
The same excess supply and demand relationship works in this model. If there is an excess supply of goods today, then it must mean that there's an excess demand for goods tomorrow. So we get a corollary to the first diagnosis of recessions: If there is an excess supply of goods today, it must be the result of an excess demand for goods tomorrow.
Each of these stories has its own strength. Since the first goods-money model includes actual money, it can help us understand how the price level is determined through monetary neutrality. On the other hand, since general equilibrium is only concerned about relative prices, and since individual dollars are not transacted in the second story, the second story has no "goods/money" relative price — i.e. the second story cannot pin down an aggregate price level. However, the second story does a better job of being explicit about intertemporal choice. And for now, this intuition about relative prices between the past and the future will be powerful enough that I will focus on this second approach.
I certainly like the Rovian goods and money story better than the intertemporal substitution story, but I greatly prefer a third approach; labor and money. Indeed I don't even like the definition of "recessions" that Yichuan starts off with. I don't see the problem during recessions as being excess supply of goods. Or goods that are not consumed. Rather the goods market seems to be in equilibrium, it's just that equilibrium output has fallen. I see excess supply of labor as the key characteristic of recessions, at least demand-side recessions. Yes, in theory output could drop while we remained at full employment due to falling productivity, but how often does that occur in the US? In practice, recessions mean excess unemployment.
So my recession model is one where nominal wages are sticky, and monetary shocks cause aggregate nominal income to fall. That leads to less hours worked, and thus less employment. There is no need to assume disequilibrium in the goods market. Some object to sticky wage theories because real wages don't seem to behave as predicted. Actually real wages are very countercyclical in flexible-price competitive industries such as commodity production. However, most industries are monopolistically competitive, and hence you really want to look at the ratio of hourly nominal wages to NGDP. And that does correlate quite closely with the unemployment rate.
To conclude, interest rates don't matter. Any monetary shock that affects current NGDP will impact the ratio of wages to NGDP, and hence create a business cycle. Monetary policy can fix the problem without having any effect of interest rates; just stabilize the path of NGDP. That's the fatal flaw in intertemporal models. They don't pin down the price level or NGDP, and hence cannot explain the path of W/NGDP, or the business cycle itself.
PS. I just got back from a week in Australia, and will gradually try to address a mountain of comments.
Why would tapering hurt Indonesia?
Tyler Cowen has a new post discussing the financial strains in developing Asia. At the end he suggests that some of their problems are due to expectations that the Fed will taper QE. I doubt that plays much of a role, but would acknowledge that the alternative explanations are not very appealing either. When the picture is this muddled, it almost always suggests that more than one factor is involved.
So what's wrong with the tapering explanation of Indonesia's problems? Tyler even suggests that it fits the market monetarist methodology—market indicators suggest tapering is the problem.
However Evan Soltas showed that although US stocks have done well in recent months, they've tended to fall on days where taper talk raised long term yields. OK, but that implies that the mysterious X-factor driving up US stock prices is even stronger than we thought, as it's also had to overcome the negative effect of taper talk. And I admit that I just don't see the signs of stronger economic growth. But then what's going on with US equity markets?
1. The article Tyler links to implies that Indonesia's being hit by an adverse supply shock (lower RGDP growth and higher inflation.) But the numbers provided suggest the shock is mild, at least so far. Could this be the China slowdown hitting Indonesian commodity exports? Australia has recently been hit by this shock. Or are higher real interest rates reducing investment in Indonesia, and hence forcing "re-allocation?" This is where QE tapering could hurt Indonesia.
2. Why blame QE? If the mechanism is higher real interest rates caused by changing conditions in US credit markets, then it's the exact same mechanism as in the late 1990s, when the US high tech boom made things difficult for many developing countries.
In other words, some countries may be more sensitive to volatility in global real interest rates than other countries. And again, if QE were causing that volatility then US equity prices should be reflecting that fact. But with a few exceptions they are not.
Here's another way of making the same point. Write down on a piece of paper a monetary rule that makes real interest rates less volatile than NGDPLT. Can't do so? Neither can I. That means that monetary policy actions by the Fed that are aimed at stabilizing NGDP, do not obviously make US real interest rates more volatile, and hence can't be blamed for hurting fragile economies that are sensitive to real rate shocks. In that case tapering may be a problem, but only because it destabilizes NGDP. In that case the Fed is erring not because rates are rising, but because NGDP growth would be slowing.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying that higher global real interest rates that are caused by changing conditions in US credit markets cannot hurt Indonesia. They can, just as higher global oil prices caused by Chinese factors hurt the US in mid-2008. But if someone said that the higher Chinese oil prices were caused by less Chinese oil supply, and not more Chinese demand for oil, a skeptic would ask why Chinese consumption of oil had increased. And if someone claims that higher global real interest rates are caused by tighter money in the US, and not stronger RGDP growth expectations in the US, a skeptic will ask why US equity prices are much higher than a few months back.
I am skeptical of my own analysis here, as I just don't see the faster growth that stock investors seem to see. But I'm also skeptical of alternative explanations. We need to let the dust settle to figure out what's going on here.
PS. Did the Indonesian central bank take advantage of QE by allowing faster NGDP growth? If so, then they arguably contributed to the current instability.
I'm still relying on my iPad, hence this will have to be short. I'll have more to say on both issues when I return home.
1. Evan Soltas has a very important post on unemployment comp in North Carolina. Unlike Soltas, I am not surprised that the reduction from 73 weeks to 19 weeks has reduced the number new claims. However I am surprised by the size of the decrease. If it persists I'll have to reexamine my priors. I strongly recommend that people follow this issue over the next few weeks; it won't take long to know whether the current data is a fluke.
2. Paul Krugman has a new post that is mostly accurate, but seems very misleading to me. You can read it for yourself and see what you think. He begins by praising a Matthew Klein post that is highly critical of a Robert Hall paper. I think most readers would assume that he agrees with at least some of Klein's criticisms of Hall. But I very much doubt that. For instance, Klein criticizes Hall for talking about banks "lending out reserves." But of course Krugman does the same, and gets (rightly) outraged when MMTers criticize him for doing so. As an aside, it would be better if people said "banks sell off unwanted reserves." In Klein's other criticisms of Hall I think he simply misunderstands what Hall is claiming, although I haven't had time yet to read the Hall paper, so I can't be sure. I'll read it when I get back home and apologize to Klein if he got it right.
Some might argue that I did the same thing to Cullen Roche that I'm accusing Krugman of doing to Hall. But here's the difference. Krugman leads off by thanking Klein for a post criticizing Hall. It sure looks like Hall made an error. On the other hand I never mentioned Roche's name. Most Krugman readers don't follow up the links, and would never suspect that Krugman agrees with Hall. Krugman should not have mentioned Hall's name. That's why many economists get upset with Krugman's style. Or maybe I'm being unfair to Krugman, and readers would not draw that inference. What do you think?
BTW, Krugman's right that there's nothing special about banks, so I agree with the main point of his post. But I believe there might be a typo—didn't Krugman mean "inside money", not outside money?
The main story however is Soltas, who has what might become the post of the year.
So that's it. The reason America is about to suffer through 8 years of high unemployment is not GOP obstructionism, but rather because our President is listening to the wrong set of progressives. We either have the monetary policy Obama wants, or we might even have a more expansionary policy than he'd prefer.
Suddenly Obama's mystifying behavior back in 2009 doesn't look so mysterious.
BTW, I just wasted an hour of my life looking for the Fed's new growth forecast (from the recent meeting.) My iPad is almost worthless for searching the Internet. Does anyone know the Fed forecast of 2013 and 2014 RGDP growth?