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Tom Bailey

England, United Kingdom
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From lintheads to high tech: the Sun Belt, and why America continues to head south

From lintheads to high tech: the Sun Belt, and why America continues to head south

CityMetric — The United States of America is often divided into different belts. The heavily religious South East holds the title of the "Bible Belt," while the de-industrialising North East and Midwest, once known as the "Steel Belt," is now designated as the "Rust Belt".
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Flash and burn: high frequency traders menace financial markets

Flash and burn: high frequency traders menace financial markets

World Finance Magazine — On May 6, 2010, $1trn was wiped from the US stock market in a matter of seconds. Traders and other observers of the market around the world were aghast and baffled by this 600 point dip, yet almost as quickly as they fell, prices recovered.
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Uber: the illusion of growth

Uber: the illusion of growth

spiked — Instead of Uber's pockets being lined by the hard toil of its drivers, the company is eating through investment from venture capitalists to keep its low-fare strategy going. Uber is not alone among Silicon Valley firms in its inability to turn a profit (though the scale of its losses are indeed extraordinary).
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The politics of Utopia

The politics of Utopia

spiked — Thomas More (1478-1535) is a famously complex, often contradictory figure. He was granted sainthood by the Catholic Church in 1935, but he has also been seen as some sort of proto-communist, owing to the ideal commonwealth he envisions in his most famous work, Utopia (1516).
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University medical-centres cushion America's vulnerable cities

University medical-centres cushion America's vulnerable cities

The New Economy — The cities of America's North East and Midwest have been hit hard by the decline of industry. University medical-centres have helped to give this region some economic relief Since the 1970s, through a mix of industrial automation and outsourcing, many American cities have seen the heart of their local economies vanish, taking with them secure employment prospects; think cars and Detroit, rubber and Akron, Pittsburgh and steel.
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How Singapore married dictatorship with a market economy

How Singapore married dictatorship with a market economy

World Finance Magazine — In an emotional televised press conference in August 1965, Lee Kuan Yew explained to the Singapore public that their voluntary union with Malaysia had come to end. The leader of the new, tiny city-state, had assembled journalists and television crews in order to inform the citizens of the new Singaporean republic that they would be on their own, no longer part of a political union with their much larger neighbour to the north.
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The Comey bombshell that wasn't

The Comey bombshell that wasn't

spiked — No doubt, this is deeply inappropriate. The president shouldn't be asking for the loyalty of the FBI director, or putting any pressure on him to drop inconvenient investigations. But these allegations don't amount to criminal wrongdoing, nor do they prove any collusion with Russia.
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Africa comes to the end of its commodities boom

Africa comes to the end of its commodities boom

World Finance Magazine — In the early 1960s, the Egyptian economist Samir Amin was working for the Malian government's Ministry of Planning in Bamako. In his memoir, A Life Looking Forward, he briefly recounts a story about the state's failed attempt to foster a local soft drink industry, creating a national drink.
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Airbnb crowdsources its lobbying

Airbnb crowdsources its lobbying

The New Economy — San Francisco is a city with multiple identities. On the one hand it is supposedly on the cutting edge of capitalism. It is often seen as a place where the best minds of Harvard or Stanford or nowhere at all flock to set up new and innovative companies centred on technology.
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In defence of the Thirteenth Amendment

In defence of the Thirteenth Amendment

spiked — This new interpretation of the Thirteenth Amendment needs to be challenged. Because it completely ignores the motivations behind the amendment's passing, and why that particular wording was chosen. It's true that African-Americans faced racial oppression for a long time after the passing of Thirteenth Amendment, including from law enforcement.
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Jing-Jin-Ji: China's new mega-region

Jing-Jin-Ji: China's new mega-region

World Finance Magazine — The Chinese Government is in the midst of an ambitious project to integrate the Jing-Jin-Ji national capital region - composed of Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei province - into one economic mega-region. Covering an area of land the size of Kansas, or six times the size of New York City, the region holds a population of roughly 150 million people - half that of the US.
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Why Americans aren't travelling by train any more

Why Americans aren't travelling by train any more

Business Destinations — In May 2015, an Amtrak Northeast Regional passenger train, transporting 238 passengers and five crew members at a speed of 102mph, derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight people and injuring another 200. While many politicians shared their condolences in the wake of the tragedy, US Vice President Joe Biden did so more emphatically than most: "Amtrak is like a second family to me", he said.
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China attempts to shake its dependence on coal by turning to shale gas

China attempts to shake its dependence on coal by turning to shale gas

World Finance Magazine — Prior to its use with oil, the technique of fracking was actually pioneered for use in shale gas extraction; Mitchell Energy produced the first shale gas in the north of Texas in 2000. The technological process behind fracking involves extracting gas from sedimentary rocks, through a mixture of horizontal drilling and hydraulically fracturing rocks - hence the name 'fracking'.
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Rubber: the muscles and sinews of industrial society

Rubber: the muscles and sinews of industrial society

World Finance Magazine — "Think of our industrial structure as a living thing.... and the flexing muscles and sinews of which are rubber," proclaimed Paul W. Litchfield, then president of Goodyear Tire and Rubber, in 1939. Such claims were not without warrant; in the same year crude rubber was the largest single-imported-commodity in terms of dollar value.
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Childless cities present a new urban challenge across the world

Childless cities present a new urban challenge across the world

European CEO — In the 21st century, cities across the industrialised world are in the midst of a revival. Following years of urban decay and retreat to the suburbs in the 20th century, cities - from San Francisco to London - are once again on the up, with growing populations, rising property prices and a cultural shift that favours urban living.
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America's law-and-order problem

America's law-and-order problem

spiked — To blame rising homicide rates on post-Ferguson 'de-policing' is a cop-out. When Donald Trump gave his acceptance speech, following his nomination as the Republicans' presidential candidate last month at the Republican National Convention, he presented a bleak view of crime in the US.
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