Two speeches from the Crown’s most senior lawyers over the past month have answered a question that should never have been in doubt: who makes the law? Attorney-General Chris Bishop spoke to the Law Association on August 6. Read more
Following the AfD's near-44% result in the Saxony-Anhalt state election, our Executive Director Oliver Hartwich joined Katie Bradford on Ryan Bridges TODAY to unpack what it means for German and European politics. He noted the result reflects a genuine national trend, not just an eastern German quirk, the AfD is currently polling around 29% nationally, well ahead of the CDU and SPD, as Germany's mainstream parties lose ground. Read more
It does not happen often that I set my alarm to just before 4am to watch the results come in from a provincial election in Germany. But that is what I did yesterday for Saxony-Anhalt, in Germany’s east. Read more
In April 1901, a Bavarian immigrant baker named Joseph Lochner was arrested in Utica, New York. Unlike the larger bakeries, which worked two shifts, Lochner employed a single crew: his bakers arrived in the evening, prepared the dough, slept a few hours on the premises and baked before dawn. Read more
| GDP Quarterly Change: | 0.68% |
|---|---|
| GDP Annual Change: | 2.01% |
| Inflation: | 3.94% |
| Optimal OCR: | 2.57% |
| Optimal OCR Gap: | 0.07% |
| Forecasted OCR Change: | 0.25% |