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...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....
...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...
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...That would be markets columnist Katie Martin and US financial commentator Robert Armstrong. Robert ArmstrongGreetings....
...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...
...Ten years later, the academic Roger Martin noted that under Welch’s leadership, GE hit its price forecast to the penny 41 out of 46 times: something that is statistically implausible....
...Martin Ford, ‘The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment’ (2015) Favourite: Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson....
...The best tale the former mentee to GE’s “Neutron” Jack Welch could drum up involved bean counting....
...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....
...overseas museums to buy British art is misguided / From Martin P Levy, member of the RCEWA, 1997-2007, London SW1, UK...
...This is a heavyweight cautionary tale about how the reputation of one-time corporate titans such as Jack Welch can be floored by over-reach and ambition....
...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...
...Karla Welch, celebrity stylist “My sister once said ‘good clothes open doors’....
...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...
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