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☆ Central bankers face a balance sheet reckoning
  + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Edward Chancellor | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +7 min
LONDON, May 26 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Central banks’ balance sheets have exploded in size since 2008. That’s not a problem, we’re told, since central banks are not bound by ordinary accounting rules. Ferguson and his colleagues examined fourteen central bank balance sheets over a period of 400 years. Central bank hawks on the other hand, are typically slow to expand their balance sheets during crises. Central banks with weak balance sheets are less credible bastions of a fiat currency.
☆ FTX: Inside the crypto giant's downfall
  + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
Crypto contagionThe crypto industry is on edge, waiting for the next dominoes to fall. Soon after FTX went down, crypto firms were inundated requests from customers seeking to claw their money back — the crypto equivalent of a run on the bank. The pain isn’t confined to crypto companies. SBF had become a fixture in Washington, too, where he regularly traveled to lobby lawmakers for greater regulatory clarity for the crypto industry. “It’s about fraud and the power of virtue signaling.”He added: “This scandal, far from destroying crypto, practically ensures that crypto will be around for a long, long time.”
☆ Women in Afghanistan have been banned from parks by the Taliban
  + stars: | 2022-11-12 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The Taliban have banned women from parks in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has become 'a cage for Afghan women,' activists say. A spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Mohammad Akif Muhajir, told local media that Afghan women would no longer be permitted to visit parks. "Unfortunately, the owners of parks didn't cooperate with us very well, and also, the women didn't observe hijab as was suggested. Nava Jamshidi/Getty ImagesSince the Taliban seized Kabul in August 2021, they have enforced punitive laws restricting women's lives and activities.
☆ Taliban ban women from parks, morality ministry says
  + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
KABUL, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Afghan women will no longer be allowed in parks, a spokesperson for the Taliban's morality ministry said, in part because they had not been meeting its interpretation of Islamic attire during their visits. "Unfortunately, the owners of parks didn't co-operate with us very well, and also the women didn't observe hijab as was suggested. However, the Taliban have said women should wear long flowing clothes that cover their bodies and also cover their faces, such as the all-enveloping burqa. Some women in Kabul and other urban centres do not cover their faces in public and others wear a surgical face mask. The Taliban say they respect women's rights in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic law.
☆ Taliban ban women from parks and gyms in Afghanistan
  + stars: | 2022-11-10 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +2 min
The Taliban are banning women from using gyms in Afghanistan, an official said Thursday, the religious group’s latest edict cracking down on women’s rights and freedoms since they took power more than a year ago. The Taliban overran the country last year, seizing power in August 2021. Women are also banned from parks. “But, unfortunately, the orders were not obeyed and the rules were violated, and we had to close parks and gyms for women,” he said. “In most cases, we have seen both men and women together in parks and, unfortunately, the hijab was not observed.
☆ Women stopped from entering amusement parks in Afghan capital
  + stars: | 2022-11-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
KABUL, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Afghan women were stopped from entering amusement parks in Kabul on Wednesday after the Taliban's morality ministry said there would be restrictions on women being able to access public parks. Bilal Karimi, a deputy spokesperson for the hardline Islamist Taliban administration, did not respond to a request for comment. At a Kabul amusement park containing rides such as bumper cars and a Ferris wheel, Reuters witnesses observed several women being turned away by park officials, with Taliban agents present observing the situation. Two park operators, who asked to remain anonymous to speak on a sensitive matter, said they had been told by Taliban officials not to allow women to enter their parks. The Taliban say they respect women's rights in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic law.
☆ Climate Change Is Real. Markets, Not Governments, Offer the Cure. - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Bret Stephens | Mr. Stephens Is An Opinion Columnist. Mr. Winter Is A Staff Photographer On Assignment In Opinion. | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +32 min
worse-case, highest-carbon-emission scenario.” (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the U.N. body that assesses climate change.) How do we weigh the risks of underreacting to climate change against the risks of overreacting to it? While he’s not an expert on climate change, he has spent decades thinking deeply about every manner of risk. That’s particularly true if climate change is akin to cancer — manageable or curable in its earlier stages, disastrous in its later ones. Maybe, I realized, in assessing my newfound concerns about climate change, my long-held beliefs might provide a solution — look to the market.
☆ A new Taliban decree orders Afghanistan's women to veil their faces in public, and if they don't comply, male relatives face punishment
  + stars: | 2022-05-07 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
The Taliban ruled that Afghan women will have to cover their faces in public. If women do not comply, their closest male relative could face imprisonment or be fired from government jobs. Most women in Afghanistan already choose to wear a headscarf but often do not cover their faces in urban areas like Kabul, Afghanistan's capital. Since taking control of Afghanistan in August of last year, the Taliban have introduced draconian laws imposing restrictions on women's freedom. The experts criticized what they described as the Taliban's "attempt to steadily erase women and girls from public life."
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