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...Traditional investors, of course, see unions as an impediment to profit maximisation. Amazon is currently fighting hard to stop its employees at a distribution centre in Alabama from unionising....
...Cleavages in UK society are deepening and widening — and, what is really scary, is that they are starting to align (in that those who are disadvantaged in one area are disadvantaged in a whole spectrum of...
...InfiniteEarth’s Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve, spanning some 65,000 hectares of peatland rainforest in central Kalimantan, has sold carbon credits to Microsoft, insurance giants Allianz and Zurich, and...
...Bank of Canada’s official numbers show that non-banks — trusts, credit unions and other financial institutions — held C$313bn of residential mortgage credit in December....
...Bloomberg listed her as one of the 25 Most Influential People on the Web....
...V&A’s robot-made web London’s Victoria and Albert Museum, has launched a season of exhibitions and events focused on the “unsung role” of engineering in society....
...As Martin Wolf memorably put it, “tripling almost nothing does not give one very much”....
...A broader concern about China Inc’s acquisition spree stems from questions about why it is happening....
...At SoFi you’re not a ‘borrower’, you’re a ‘member’ (like in the good old days of building societies, credit unions and mutual societies.)...
...British consumers are the least likely in the European Union to divulge information to gain a more personalised service....
...And that means we can help on tax credits. I’ve been asked to help in the transition as Britain moves to the higher wage, lower welfare, lower tax society the country wants to see....
...Today we usually associate national postal systems with the arrival of things we never wanted in the first place: utility bills, overdraft alerts, tax audits, one-time-only credit-card offers, charity appeals...
...Harvard University conducted an experiment in 2011, applying for 1,700 jobs with two résumés – one that said the applicant was treasurer to their college’s LGBT society, and one that did not....
...consumer credit for housing, cars and appliances....
...Bankers appear to be living in a parallel universe, where the rewards are far out of kilter with what the rest of society can expect....
...Bob Meara, analyst at financial research firm Celent, said the number of bank and credit union branches could fall 40 per cent over the next decade....
...Back in the early 2000s, I did so because it looked like cheap insurance against the beginnings of a nasty credit bubble. It isn’t so cheap now. But it still has insurance value....
...In comments made to the Manchester Union Leader newspaper, Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, seemed to imply that it would be impolite to admonish potential voters who behaved badly....
...Those at the meeting also insisted that, beyond Ireland Inc, the country’s “best calling card is its culture”. New arts centres, in New York, for example, will be one result....
...She credits her family as being integral to her success – and she remains integral to their lives. “At the weekends, I’m cooking at home in the kitchen,” she says....
...One year into the global credit crisis, Japanese financial institutions are reaping the rewards of their forced seclusion....
...Agriculture credit flow was Rs.2,87,000 crore in 2008-09. The target for agriculture credit flow for the year 2009-10 is being set at Rs.3,25,000 crore....
...“Risk-averse lenders are requiring buyers to bring more equity and higher [credit] scores....
...Second, we need some regulatory safeguards for labour, such as unions and safety standards....
...Norwich Union, one of the UK’s biggest insurers, gives customers the option of receiving their insurance claim on a pre-paid Visa Electron card....
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