'I Do Everything I'm Told' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 | Don’t count on a soft landing for the world economy | Nigeria central bank says old bank notes to remain legal tender | AI Companies Are Running Out of Training Data

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� � � � � � 'I Do Everything I'm Told' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 - Time    In “Orlando,” an entry in Megan Fernandes’ stirring third poetry collection, she writes that poems give “form to the formless,” capturing the essence of her book. Split into four sections, the poems in I Do Everything I’m Told give words to unnamable desires and mysterious obsessions, telling stories that span the world and beyond, from Shanghai locker rooms to a freezing Rockaway Beach to Saturn’s rings. The speaker of the poems is wrestling with life, and with interpersonal relationships and connections to everything else. With striking clarity in her language and an attentiveness to the beauty of contradictions, Fernandes creates a work that is less a balm than it is a wallop to the senses, jarring the reader awake. —Mahita Gajanan Buy Now: I Do Everything I’m Told on Bookshop | Amazon Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Don't count on a soft landing for the world economy - The Economist    For some time the world economy has seemed to defy gravity. Despite the fastest tightening of monetary policy since the 1980s, America’s economic growth probably accelerated in 2023. Europe has mostly weaned itself off Russian gas without economic catastrophe. Global inflation has fallen without big surges in unemployment, in part because labour markets have so far cooled mainly by shedding job vacancies not jobs themselves. As the year ends, optimists who predicted a “soft landing” are taking victory laps. Yet the world economy will remain fragile in 2024. Though inflation will be lower, it will remain too high. Economic policy still faces an excruciating balancing act. And even if America continues to dodge a recession, the rest of the world looks vulnerable. Inflation’s recent fall has been a relief to central bankers. But in big, rich economies it is unlikely to continue declining all the way to their 2% targets unless a recession strikes. For one thing, labour markets still look too hot and nominal wage growth too high. For another, economies will have to contend with the effects of more expensive oil. Just when it seemed as if the supply shocks of the pandemic era and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had dissipated, with supply chains unclogged and economies rebalanced, a barrel of oil has risen in price by about a third since the summer, thanks to production cuts in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. A price fall was halted by Hamas’s attack on Israel. The resulting pricier petrol could raise fears of a “second wave” of inflation. Continued here � � � � � � Nigeria central bank says old bank notes to remain legal tender - Reuters    A man carries Nigerian naira banknotes at a livestock market in Abuja, Nigeria July 29, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights ABUJA, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Nigeria's central bank said on Tuesday old bank notes that were due to be removed from circulation next month would now remain legal tender, ending months of uncertainty after an attempt earlier this year to remove them caused serious cash shortages. The Supreme Court in March ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to extend until Dec. 31 the use of old 1,000, ($1.18) 500 and 200 naira notes, whose initial withdrawal from circulation became an election issue after it caused widespread hardship and anger. Continued here � � � � � � AI Companies Are Running Out of Training Data - Futurism    Continued here

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