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Booking Holdings CEO: Airlines Need More Stimulus Money

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Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel wants Congress to provide more support for the airline industry, saying that not doing so would prevent the industry from recovering quickly once the pandemic slowed, CNBC reported. Fogel's company provides airline services, including flight bookings. It makes no sense to me.

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The economics of our future world

Chris Skinner

Taking of moving from the concept of a Universal Basic Income to money without government to tokens to credits, I’ve been reading a fascinating book recently on Star Trek’s economics called Trekonomics.

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Fed Report: 2020 Closes Out With Slight Economic Uptick 

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economy posted slight gains in the pandemic year of 2020, after closing the books on what was one of the most dismal economic fallouts in history, according to the Federal Reserve’s Beige Book report on Wednesday (Jan. Companies in the software and IT services sector reported some improvement.

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A Banking Nerd Book Tour

Jeff For Banks

As many of my readers know, I wrote a book, Squared Away-How Can Bankers Succeed as Economic First Responders. If you don't know, it's because I'm not particularly good at getting the word out to the book's target audience: bankers and the professionals that serve them. Not so for a spreadsheet wonk!

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Risk perceptions and economic activity in the United Kingdom

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In 2023 Q1, the UK measure fell to its lowest level since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, indicating higher risk perceptions and potentially foreshadowing weaker economic activity. First, at each quarter-end, we collect book to market ratios for all stocks in the FTSE All-Share index. It declined by 2.2

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Can Comic Books Boost Compliance And AML Efforts?

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Comic books (along with their more sophisticated cousins, graphic novels) are treated not only as literature these days by fans and many scholars, but they also have a firm place in U.S. Now comes a comic book contribution to one of the most vexing and vital issues of modern payments and commerce — fraud prevention and ID compliance.

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Amazon India Now Offers Movie Ticket Bookings

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Amazon customers in India can now book movie tickets on its app or website through a partnership with BookMyShow , Economic Times (ET) reported on Saturday (Nov. mobile site and book tickets from a movie tickets tab under the ‘shop by’ option on Amazon Pay.

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