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...diplomatic wranglings and trade wars were dying down, the EU this week contrived to crank up tensions with Russia, after the European Medicines Agency questioned the ethics behind trials of the Sputnik V...
...Send any thoughts to trade.secrets@ft.com or email me at alan.beattie@ft.com....
...Alan Greenspan, chair of the Federal Reserve, held far more sway in Clinton’s Washington than the labour unions....
...The same holds true of the fearless reporting of Clare Rewcastle Brown in her exposure of the multibillion-dollar 1MDB scandal in Malaysia....
...Although PLDT chairman Manuel V....
...Sebastian Mallaby Author of The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan (Bloomsbury/Penguin) Peter Conti-Brown’s The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve (Princeton) is a study of what...
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...According to Ha’aretz, EAPC’s main shareholder is APC Holdings, based in Halifax, Canada, and other shareholders include the Panamanian Eilat Corporation....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...Alan Miller, founding partner of SCM Private, a London-based investment house, describes Europe as a “hard nut to crack”....
...Mr Vitter and Mr Brown could live with that – and believe others can, too....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
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...Kevin Brown is the FT’s Asia regional correspondent kevin.brown@ft.com...
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...Though he would lean towards voting for a trade sceptic rather than a trade enthusiast, Mr Lewis says that cutting taxes on corporations is more important: “The main thing is getting the government out of...
...“Costs are higher here, not driven by labour rates but rather by lack of incentives or tax credits that are available to US corporations in most other countries.”...
...Comment, analysis and other offerings from Thursday’s FT, John Gapper: Charge for news or bleed red ink Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian, spoke bluntly last week when he described the financial...
...Much effort has gone into identifying which letter of the alphabet best describes the cycle – is it a U, V, or W shaped cycle of recession and recovery....
...Stiles’s superbly written book argues that the main legacy of the “robber baron” and “railroad king” was the giant but invisible corporation, so big that it was able to crush its competitors....
...His cars would carry a silver and green MG X-Power logo, as opposed to the brown and white of the classic MG badge....
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...In NATO parlance, it has evolved from an Article V binding commitment organization to an Article IV discretionary action grouping....
...On China’s mainland, meanwhile, investors continue to ignore warnings from the likes of Alan Greenspan and Warren Buffett that stock price rises are unsustainable....
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