Liam Dann: What is the great reflation . and what will it do to investments?
27 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Is the global economy about to boom, or will it all just go pop? Photo / File
Is the global economy about to boom, or will it all just go pop? Photo / File
OPINION:
Reflation is the fashionable variety of economic hot air blowing through financial reporting this year. What does that mean? How will we know if it is really happening? And is it bad news or good news?
There are plenty of questions to be answered.
Not least why so many of the variables underpinning our economy sound like the difficulties of blowing up kids party balloons.
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A video-chat party during shutdown goes south in this dull, implausible thriller.
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Running time: Running time: 85 MIN.
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One of the sleeper hits of the shutdown last year was Rob Savage’s British horror “Host,” a very short (just under an hour) and sweetly scary tale of friends whose weekly Zoom call during COVID quarantine gets crashed by an unwelcome supernatural visitor. It was, however, bound to be the exception which proved a preexisting rule: that found-footage thrillers remain a tapped-out genre, no matter if one in every 20 or so manages to squeeze some new life from the form.
Houston teens join COVID vaccine trial in hopes of returning to normal
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Animi Williams, 14, center, laughs as her brother Adonye Williams, 16, has his blood drawn by Tenea Johnson, a research assistant, as part of a Moderna vaccine trial for teenagers Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021, at CyFair Clinical Research Center in Houston. Animi Williams was live-streaming the blood draw for their mother, who was waiting outside in their car.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Adonye Williams, 16, gets a brief exam by Amy Starr, a family nurse practitioner, as his sister Animi Williams, 14, waits for hers Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021, at CyFair Clinical Research Center in Houston. The siblings volunteered to be part of a Moderna vaccine trial for teenagers.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less