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I.  IntroductionThe needs of vulnerable individuals in the United States fluctuate over the business cycle, with measures such as food insecurity, poverty, and homelessness rates increasing during bad times (Sard 2009; Kneebone and Holmes 2016; Lombe et al. 2018). The public at large expresses a desire for countercyclicality in US nonprofits, hoping that nonprofits will expand their activities during downturns in the face of rising need.1 This hope motivates the rich literature on the drivers of giving to nonprofits. Yet there is little comprehensive evidence on whether nonprofits—particularly nonprofits that the public especially hopes will expand during bad times—are indeed…

Bitcoin crossed $80,000 on Wednesday for the first time in roughly three months, capping a 25 percent rally since Aug. 19 that has turned one of the worst stretches in crypto history into the coin’s best August in nine years. The surge has been fueled by a flood of new money into U.S. spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which pulled in $1.9 billion in net inflows last week. That is the strongest weekly tally since October 2025, when Bitcoin hit its all-time high of $126,198. For anyone who has watched crypto prices on a phone screen while waiting for the 58…

President Donald Trump is complicating an already difficult campaign for Ohio Republican Sen. Jon Husted.  Husted, like many Republicans running this cycle, faces a delicate balancing act: addressing voters’ economic anxieties while being pushed to answer for the president’s disjointed national messaging. Trickier yet is doing so while Trump’s war with Iran rages on with no end in sight and his trade dispute with Canada — Ohio’s largest trading partner — escalates. Six months into the war with Iran, Husted acknowledged voters’ exasperation without decisively breaking with a president who has already helped oust two incumbent Republican senators this election…

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In a speech delivered at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, de Cos said that while both technologies use tokenization, they have important differences in terms of the monetary system. In terms of singleness, or the ability of monetary units to be redeemed at par into central bank money, stablecoins fall short because there is no mechanism to enforce singleness and because transactions may not go through at par when one type of stablecoin must be sold in a secondary market to purchase another type, de Cos said. Tokenized deposits, on the…

ShareSaveThere is an urgent need for scaled, integrated approach that embeds industrialisation within macroeconomic policy, enables patient capital flows, supports workforce development, and fosters public-private collaboration. That’s the stance of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group. Senior Economist at the Group, Wilson Erumebor, notes the Government needs to prioritise sectors with comparative advantage and job creation potential, such as agro-processing, pharmaceuticals, green technologies, and digital manufacturing.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:43:37 GMTAIAI Generated SummaryShow + Source link

Family life can put a heating system through its paces. There are showers before school, baths in the evening, someone working from home during the day and everyone wanting a warm house when they get up on a cold morning.A properly designed heat pump can cope with these demands, but families may need to think differently about how they schedule their heating and hot water compared with how they use a gas boiler.Phil Steele, future technologies evangelist at Octopus Energy, says the key is planning when the heat pump performs each job.“Typically, a heat pump will either be providing heat…

Bitfinex Highlights Bitcoin Price Correlation with Gold As Debasement Trade Narrative Evolves Analysts warn that bitcoin is starting to behave as digital gold as investors try to find a hedge against debt and monetary manipulations. Bitfinex has stressed that this correlation between gold and bitcoin has reached levels that normally don’t hold for long, signaling an impending change in this trend. “Both trade as one debasement hedge, $BTC the higher-beta version, but this reading has broken before. A potential risk-off environment shows whether bitcoin holds with gold or falls with stocks,” Bitfinex highlighted. This happens as the macroeconomic backdrop migrates…

Ten firms capture roughly half of observed search and AI discovery Tier I dominates, but search and AI disagree on many challengers For half the market, claimed capability travels further than outside recognition Figure 1: Ten firms capture 54.0% of coded Google results and 51.2% of coded AI mentions. A technology advisory firm can be capable enough to win the work and still be invisible enough never to receive the invitation. That is the uncomfortable starting point of The Economy’s new Market Intelligence study of 89 firms across AI and data implementation, digital transformation and enterprise technology advisory. The rankings…

Strategic Review Underway Astorg and Montagu are in preliminary talks to offload their stake in Nemera, sources close to the situation revealed. The French company, a key supplier of delivery systems for GLP-1 therapies, may attract bids near the €3 billion mark. Nemera designs and produces drug administration devices such as auto-injectors, inhalation systems, ocular dispensers, and infusion pumps. Its technologies enable treatments from industry leaders like Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. With facilities across the U.S., Europe, and Brazil, the company is scaling operations to address rising global demand. Weight-Loss Drug Boom Drives Valuation The private equity owners have…