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...Part of the problem is that ESG funds often try to address too many factors at once, says Brad Lander, who runs New York City’s $248bn in pension funds, leading to “a loss of clarity and strategic attention...
...In a recent tweet, Brad Setser rightly criticised the tendency to conflate what is good for German companies with what is good for Germany. It’s a point that bears highlighting....
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...In recent years for example, China’s trade data has been indicating that it exports tens of billions dollars more than the US assesses it imports, Brad Setser, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations...
...In the early dawn of this column’s existence, I wrote about an argument US economic historian Brad DeLong made for why we should expect government spending to be higher in the 21st century than in the 20th...
...Martin Ford, ‘The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment’ (2015) Favourite: Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson....
...A subset of weaker emerging and developing countries “have been just priced out of the dollar bond market”, said Brad Setser, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations....
...Brad DeLong: Well, starting in 1870, history changed into a very different register....
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...Brad Setser makes similar observations from the euro area’s balance of payments data: about $90bn worth of the Russian current account surplus “has been found” in Russian banks’ additional claims on eurozone...
...And as international balance sheet guru Brad Setser told me, Russia doesn’t need to mobilise its blocked reserves: it has built up so much unsanctioned money it can use instead....
...The rooms continue the design-as-provocation theme, showcasing both boldface and lesser-known names, from the lofty classicism of Luca Pignatelli’s painting to the ’70s and ’80s grit of photographer Brad...
...In my latest contribution to the FT’s Economists Exchange series, I have a long conversation with the always thought-provoking Brad DeLong....
...“The crypto industry’s number one objective is to sell crypto . . . and to legitimise it,” Martin Walker, a longtime crypto critic and the director of banking and finance at the Center for Evidence-Based...
...Martin Chorzempa from the Peterson Institute says it’s proving difficult....
...Fed chair Jay Powell was on the line, along with FDIC head Martin Gruenberg, acting comptroller of the currency Michael Hsu and San Francisco Fed president Mary Daly....
...My fellow economics commentators Chris Giles and Martin Wolf have looked at the tax and spending plans of Truss and her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, and put them both down as gamblers with the UK economy...
...The most-told story is one of borrowing pushed too far, and lenders pulling out — what Brad Setser calls an external funding crisis, and once seen as a risk to the US brought on by its combined fiscal and...
...See also this thread by former US Treasury debt guru Brad Setser and his piece for Alphaville last October, whence comes this handy chart of who owes what....
...As the latest IMF report outlined downside risks, Martin Wolf asks: what can and should be done?...
...As Ukrainians use this network to scramble for ideas they can test, or “hack”, on the battlefield, this is sparking some “extraordinary innovation”, as Brad Smith, president of Microsoft recently noted....
...“I’m distressed by what I’ve heard from you gentlemen: ‘guardrails, safe and sound ways to deal with crypto’,” Brad Sherman, a Democratic representative from California, said to banking regulators present...
...She bought this Long Island property in 2006 with her first husband, the Coldplay frontman Chris Martin; it was also where she married her second, TV writer and producer Brad Falchuk, in a backyard ceremony...
...What persists, however, is a belief that the region is on a slow path towards progress, a belief inspired by the great Georgia native Martin Luther King Jr’s famous quote that the moral arc of the universe...
...Brad Martin, director of the National Security Supply Chain Institute at the Rand Corporation, warns that instead of functioning as a “silicon shield”, Taiwan’s dominance in the semiconductor market could...
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