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...Our top-line question every month is the old saw that Ronald Reagan used to beat Jimmy Carter in 1980: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”...
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...He has roped in powerful, yet controversial kingmakers: his new defence minister, Jean-Pierre Bemba, is a former rebel leader who can secure the votes of the west of the country....
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...“I opted for blue leopard-print drainpipe jeans, which I accessorised with a studded belt and blue baseball boots, topped with a pink string vest....
...As an editorial assistant and in his spare time, he rubs shoulders with such figures as James Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Angela Carter, Sigrid Nunez, Stephen Spender, Philip Roth and Derek Walcott....
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...He veers into tax policy, as usual citing a relevant intellectual (in this case Jean-Baptiste Colbert and his famous comment that “the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest...
...Inflation ended the presidencies of Ford and Carter....
...The situation for the president is probably best summarised by my colleague Ed Luce’s analysis of whether this is Biden’s Jimmy Carter moment....
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...It was Jean-Claude Van Damme....
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