Hints and tips:
...Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake (Bloomsbury, 11 hrs 22 mins) might seem an unlikely choice: a woman in her fifties retells the gripping events of a summer from her youth to her three daughters, to pass the time...
...Ann Pettifor: The UK in 2022 will not look like, or be, a high wage and therefore high productivity economy....
...The FT's editorial board praises Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, for “opening up the inner sanctum of the monetary system to financial upstarts” with his bold move to allow fintech companies...
...Ann Pettifor: A decade of austerity proved an economically ruinous policy and has left the UK economy in a dire state....
...Mark Carney: Time trial Three years after Mark Carney left City rivals in the dust with his 3:31 finish at the London Marathon, Sunday’s field is pretty devoid of high-profile financiers....
...October's figures will not be affected by the November rate rise but the data we have so far on retail sales suggests a bit of weakness on the high street. 14.00: Mark Carney speech at the Fixed Income,...
...Ann Pettifor, director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics There is no real sign that the government intends to reverse austerity....
...– Brexit is a protectionist lashout against free-markets, argues Ann Petifor. – How a pillar of german banking lost its way. – Who started the Mark Carney resignation rumour?...
...Even Mark Carney, the Bank of England governor, waxed lyrical about “artisanal globalisation” in a recent speech....
...(David Brooks, NYT) Trump’s big suit (Robert Armstrong, FT) Why Democrats will unite in November (Dan Carney, USA Today) Trump is fuelled by demographic, not economic panic (Joy-Ann Reid, Daily Beast)...
...Martin Hutchinson, columnist, The Bear’s Lair No, because Carney will still be there....
...Ann Pettifor, director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME) 0.5 — 1.0 percentage point increase in annual inflation rate compared to 2016’s 0.7....
...But, as Mark Carney has previously indicated, there is no reason in principle why it cannot be used in a more intelligent and focused way to aid the productive, low carbon economy....
...The attempt to undermine Carney was a classic example where the markets prevented them from doing or saying stupid stuff. Seems to me they have little economic credibility....
...Sylvia Ann Hewlett, a New York-based expert on issues of women in business and work-life balance, talked on BBC Wales last week about growing up as one of six girls in Cwmbran and Croesyceiliog in the 1950s...
...More so, in the face of Carney and his deputies trailing moves by the FPC to cool housing strength in June, from Citi’s Michael Saunders and Ann O’Kelly: And, in any case, a world of rigid credit controls...
...Mr Carney and his colleagues think that will take three years....
...An excellent recent paper on UK forward guidance by Michael Saunders and Ann O’Kelly at Citigroup [1] argues that the natural rate is probably a little lower than the latest OECD estimate, which is 6.8 per...
...and Green MP Caroline Lucas, wrote to Mark Carney outlining a recently published national plan....
...The remark came just days after he said his wife Ann “drives a couple of Cadillacs”, another remark that highlighted his wealth. Mr Romney is well ahead in the second primary to be held in Arizona....
...His wife, Ann, ever-present on the campaign, joked she would like to “strangle” some members of the press....
...Another appointment made was Nancy-Ann DeParle, who oversaw negotiations on healthcare reform, as deputy chief of staff for policy....
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