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When the SS Great Eastern laid the first working transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866, a message that had taken ten days by steamship suddenly crossed the ocean in minutes, and the financial markets of London and New York were forced, within a single trading week, to invent the modern concept of synchronised global price.

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On the morning of July 27, 1866, the SS Great Eastern dropped anchor in Heart’s Content, Newfoundland, with 1,686 nautical…

When Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky pointed a rotating antenna at the sky in 1932 looking for sources of transatlantic radio static, he kept picking up a faint hiss that peaked every 23 hours and 56 minutes, and he eventually realized he had become the first human to hear the center of the Milky Way.

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In the summer of 1932, a radio engineer named Karl Jansky was standing in a field in New Jersey, next…

When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under glass beads still falling from the sky.

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Robert DePalma was digging at a ranch in the Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North Dakota, in a place he…

On 28 May 2009, Google demoed a product called Wave on stage at I/O for 80 minutes and got a standing ovation from developers who had no idea what they had just watched, and 15 months later the company quietly shut it down because almost nobody could explain to a friend what it was actually for

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Lars Rasmussen stood on stage at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on 28 May 2009 and spent roughly 80…

Federal Reserve Board – Minutes of the Board’s discount rate meeting on April 20 and 29, 2026

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Federal Reserve Board – Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, April 28-29, 2026

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Federal Reserve Board – Minutes of the Board’s discount rate meetings on February 9 and March 18, 2026

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Federal Reserve Board – Minutes of the Board’s discount rate meetings on January 20 and 28, 2026

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Fed minutes reveal discussion of a possible rate hike if inflation doesn’t cool

Personal Finance February 18, 2026

Several officials would have supported a statement by the Fed indicating that interest rates could rise if inflation remained high.

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When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under glass beads still falling from the sky.

On 28 May 2009, Google demoed a product called Wave on stage at I/O for 80 minutes and got a standing ovation from developers who had no idea what they had just watched, and 15 months later the company quietly shut it down because almost nobody could explain to a friend what it was actually for

Federal Reserve Board – Minutes of the Board’s discount rate meeting on April 20 and 29, 2026

Federal Reserve Board – Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, April 28-29, 2026

Federal Reserve Board – Minutes of the Board’s discount rate meetings on February 9 and March 18, 2026

Federal Reserve Board – Minutes of the Board’s discount rate meetings on January 20 and 28, 2026

Fed minutes reveal discussion of a possible rate hike if inflation doesn’t cool

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‘This is not a flash in the pan’: Why value stocks are beating growth by such a wide margin

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