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July 16, 2025 Blog

News Roundup Mid-July
We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to utilities, artificial intelligence, carbon markets, housing and taxation, work and wellbeing, taxation, public finances and the environment: Utilities Why does Scotland use more water than the rest of the UK?, BBC...
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June 30, 2025 Blog

June News Roundup
30 June 2025 We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers will find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to artificial intelligence, pensions and savings, state intervention in markets, and housing: Another Review CEME’s latest publication, Inflation is About More Than Money, by Brian Griffiths, is on...
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June 30, 2025 Blog

Paul Mueller: Central Banks and Inflation
My colleague, Dr. Dave Hebert, wrote a nice overview of different types of inflation and how they can affect people. He pointed out that the rate of inflation can be high or low as well as anticipated or unanticipated. He also explained how inflation is fundamentally a monetary phenomenon: too much money chasing too few...
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June 9, 2025 Blog

Monthly News Roundup – Mid-June 2025
We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers find interesting. In this instalment, there are stories relating to artificial intelligence, utilities, defence spending, public finances and the cost of borrowing, virtue and commercial success, pensions and the environment:   Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence shows great potential for transforming businesses...
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June 2, 2025 Blog

Neil Jordan: War and Peace – and Artificial Intelligence
A fascinating advance currently underway in the field of artificial intelligence is the development of models to assist with peace negotiations. In collaboration with the White House, a think tank in Washington has been developing a simulator that generates potential peace-agreements to end the war in Ukraine, and also scores the likelihood of each deal being...
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June 2, 2025 Blog

May News Roundup
  In this instalment, there are stories relating to health and the welfare bill, utilities, the value of work, insurance markets, monetary policy, tariffs and trade, artificial intelligence and the environment, as well as a review of our latest book Health and Productivity Faced with a an increasing benefits bill, driven in part by long...
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May 27, 2025 Blog

Philip Booth: Pope Francis, Fraternity and Globalisation
This is a repost of an appreciation of Pope Francis by CEME Fellow, Professor Philip Booth, first published on the Catholic Social Teaching blog of St Mary’s University. We thought it would be of interest to CEME readers, but reposting does not mean endorsement of every point. In the coverage of the passing of Pope Francis...
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May 12, 2025 Blog

Monthly News Roundup – April 2025
Sign up for our Substack   We have compiled some news, comment pieces and announcements that we hope our readers find interesting. In this installment, there are stories relating to carbon markets, housing, the use (or not) of cash, the need for economic growth in the UK, and on the capacity of artificial intelligence to...
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