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...What I am more sympathetic to, however, is your argument — contained in several of your books — that the financialisation of everything is warping American capitalism....
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...Another is that Donald Trump will win November’s US presidential election and withdraw or discredit the American defence guarantee of Europe....
...Others put it more bluntly: “It’s a lot of blah, blah,” said a seasoned lobbyist.Brussels officials concur not much was agreed on trade but blame it on the Americans. “It’s not the TTC’s fault....
...But American Express chief executive Steve Squeri found himself facing particularly worrying circumstances....
...But Biden had a second message as he addressed the cameras, flanked by workers holding USW signs: that US Steel, the Pittsburgh-based American industrial icon, should remain “American-owned, American-operated...
...Explora itself expanded with similarly slick retreats in seven South American locations, including Easter Island, Chile’s Atacama Desert and El Chaltén in Argentina’s Los Glaciares National Park....
...Just eight of these though are North American, where markets are already highly concentrated....
...American Express Global Business Travel has agreed a $570mn deal to buy rival CWT, in a bet on the continued recovery of business travel following the pandemic....
...Arthur Goldhammer, an American scholar of France and its language, observed in his Tocqueville21 blog: “The farmers have stolen his thunder with their diesel-powered jacquerie.”...
...Some G7 leaders proposed designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps defence force as a terrorist organisation, a proposal that the EU has long mulled but consistently failed to find consensus on....
...Lithuania has been eager for Germany to send the troops as soon as possible, to complement British soldiers in Estonia, Canadians in Latvia and Americans in Poland....
...Companies: American Express and Colgate-Palmolive report fourth-quarter results....
...in a report on the EU’s single market to be discussed by EU leaders today, Letta argues for “a European dimension surpassing the national confines that currently hinder any substantial competition with American...
...A weaker commitment to Nato could damp American defence exports while European governments, already under pressure to spend more on defence and bolster their own capabilities, would have to ensure more of...
...American Express shares dropped nearly 4 per cent in pre-market trading, after revenue missed expectations, provisions for credit losses tripled and profit topped forecasts....
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...President Joe Biden’s comfortable victory in last month’s Democratic primary in Michigan came with a warning sign — the defection of many Arab-American and other voters opposed to his support for Israel....
...American Express shares are close to record highs, up 40 per cent over the past year....
...Europe is not only down, but the US is up, with the American economy in 2023 outpacing the EU’s for the seventh time in the past 10 years....
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