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Nobel Prize-winning economists are lending their credibility to a proposed California ballot measure that would tax billionaires on unrealized gains. The backing signals a shift in how mainstream economic thought is engaging with wealth concentration, and it puts serious academic weight behind a policy once dismissed as fringe.
Across the Atlantic, new data suggests the United Kingdom's post-financial-crisis productivity story may need a rewrite. Revised figures show output grew roughly twice as fast as previously measured in the years following two thousand eight, which raises real questions about how well our statistical tools capture modern economic activity, particularly in services and digital sectors.
On the infrastructure side, Kubernetes one point three seven has landed, carrying the name Garhwal and a clear emphasis on stability and artificial intelligence workload support. The rootless kubelet feature moving into beta is particularly notable for security-conscious teams, reducing the blast radius when something goes wrong inside a cluster.
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