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Cryptocurrencies: Update and Overview

The most recent Global Financial Stability Report from the IMF includes a chapter on “The Crypto Ecosystem and Financial Stability Challenges” (October 2021).

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Payoffs from Community College: How Choice of Major Matters

Community colleges serve many functions: a terminal two-year degree leading to better job, a stepping-stone to a four-year college degree, a chance to brush up on needed skills while not necessarily completing a degree, and a chance to pursue interests to enhance one’s life.

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What Are the Current Financial Stability Concerns?

Sometimes you start working on a project, and it turns out to be more timely than you had expected.

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Bitcoin and Illegal Activity

Bitcoin is the most exciting decentralized digital currency but it has the most crime reports related to illegal activity of any cryptocurrency, since it's the oldest and most-widely held cryptocurrency in the world. 

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Autonomous Vehicles: Eeyore Speaks

Missy Cummings was “one of the first female fighter pilots in the US Navy and now a professor in the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering and the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, as well as the director of Duke’s Humans and Autonomy Laboratory.”

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The Problem of Automated Screening of Job Applicants

There are plenty of good things that happen when firms post their job openings online.

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Economic Sanctions: A Reality Check

Economic sanctions is an attempt to carry out foreign policy using economic terms. It is a deliberately broad term.