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Adam Smith 1723–1790
You may recognise Adam Smith, he's the chap on the back of your £20 note.



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The following is a short list:
You may recognise Adam Smith, he's the chap on the back of your £20 note.



The end!
Dark web sites tied to the Russian-based cyber gang REvil were not operating on Tuesday, just two weeks after the group launched a large-scale ransomware campaign that affected more than 1,500 companies around the world, according to CNBC.
Why it matters: It's unclear whether the sites — which REvil uses to facilitate its ransom negotiations — are down because of a technical problem, a law enforcement operation, or some other explanation. The group's public spokesperson has also been silent on message boards since last week, according to Politico.
Flashback: DarkSide, another Russia-based hacking group, ceased operations after it shut down the Colonial Pipeline during a ransomware operation, leading to widespread gas shortages in the U.S. for several days.
Yes, but: Security experts have said that cyber criminal groups sometimes disband and return under different names, and it therefore currently can't be determined if the disruption to REvil's web sites is permanent.
The big picture: The full extent of REvil's most recent ransomware operation is still unknown.
Go deeper: Assessing the size of the Kaseya ransomware attack
The mayor of the city where George Floyd was raised is taking over a group that represents 500 Black mayors in the U.S. amid national pressure to revamp police departments.
Why it matters: Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner will become the new president of the African American Mayors Association as municipalities across the country examine police reforms and deal with the economic fallout from the pandemic.
Details: The African American Mayors Association will announce Tuesday that Turner will succeed Newport News, Va,. Mayor McKinley Price to lead the only organization exclusively representing Black mayors in the United States.
The intrigue: Turner said earlier this year that work is underway to restructure his city's civilian police misconduct review board, which was under scrutiny for not holding officers accountable for excessive force.
Don't forget: Turner is only Houston's second elected Black mayor where 60% of residents are Hispanic, Black, or Asian American.
While Fed chair Jerome Powell is brushing off the seismic rise in government bond yields and a corresponding decline in stock prices, a group of central bankers in the Pacific are starting to take action.
Driving the news: Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko Kuroda told parliament on Friday the BOJ would not allow yields on government debt to continue rising further above the BOJ's 0% target.
What it means: Kuroda is intimating that the BOJ is ready to step in and buy more bonds to push up prices and bring down yields after 10-year government debt rates rose to the highest since January 2016.
Why it matters: In addition to the repricing in equities, especially tech stocks, rising inflation expectations mean rising prices for consumers in the form of costlier loans, higher gas prices and increasing costs for goods.
Be smart: Kuroda, who heads the central bank where inflation has been the tamest for the longest, is the most important leader to begin the process of intervening to bring down bond yields but is hardly the first.
Between the lines: The central bank heads taking action — Kuroda, RBA's Philip Lowe and BOK's Lee Ju-yeol — are all classically trained macroeconomists who have been at their respective central banks for decades.
What's next: The European Central Bank will publish its latest bond-buying figures at 9:45am ET and investors will get to see whether the bank significantly raised its purchases, signaling top policymakers are backing recent assurances that they won’t tolerate higher yields with action.
Gun-rights activist Marjorie Taylor Greene defeated physician John Cowan in a runoff election for the Republican nomination in Georgia's deep-red 14th Congressional District on Tuesday, AP reports.
Why it matters: Greene, a vocal QAnon conspiracy theorist who has been condemned by GOP leaders for making multiple offensive remarks about Black people, Jews and Muslims in Facebook videos, is likely to win a seat in the House come November.
Context: Greene defended QAnon in a 30-minute video and claimed that Black people "are held slaves to the Democratic Party," in a Facebook video published by Politico.
House Republican leaders, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, criticized Greene for the videos after they surfaced.
What she's saying: "The GOP establishment, the media, & the radical left, spent months & millions of dollars attacking me," Greene tweeted Tuesday night. "Tonight the people of Georgia stood up & said that we will not be intimidated or believe those lies."
What's next: Greene is one of almost a dozen GOP candidates who have openly supported or defended the QAnon movement or some of its tenets.
Go deeper: QAnon's 2020 resurgence