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...Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck (Bodley Head/WW Norton) In August 1945 Indonesia became the first colonised country to declare its independence after the second...
...It’s a place that has regularly held cocktail parties for shows devoted to the furniture of Hervé Van der Straeten, Andreé Putman and other interior design luminaries....
...Liberty still surprises me and has a great menswear edit – I like Folk, Oliver Spencer and Dries van Noten....
...It is unlikely that he will go much further unless a) financial crisis intervenes b) the election is brought forward or c) war is declared....
...Peter Spencer, Professor of Economics, University of York c) succeed in cutting spending, but revenues will fall short George Osborne will succeed in cutting spending, but revenues are likely to fall short...
...c) longer-term (post the negotiations and any transition) — impossible to forecast with any precision at this point, given we have very little idea of what the outcome of the negotiations in b) would be....
...Professor John van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance: It would have a negative effect on Scotland and the UK....
...Professor Peter Spencer, York University: Plan A has been systematically watered down....
...Professor Peter Spencer, York University: So far, the recovery has been heavily dependent upon the consumer’s willingness to reduce the saving ratio....
...Professor John van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance: Abolish Help to Buy....
...Friends Life has £27.5bn of assets managed by F&C, equivalent to 27 per cent of the group’s total assets under management....
...Aberdeen Art Gallery Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959): “Southwold” 1937 Spencer’s personal vision of the village and inhabitants of Cookham by the Thames in Berkshire is so intense that it comes as a surprise...
...jakab.spencer@ft.com...
...founder and chief executive of the luxury fashion website My-Wardrobe.com, says, “We saw a 100 per cent sell-out of our camel cashmere wrap coat by Joseph within hours of it being live, while it was still 22°C...
...John van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance: The deficit reduction program has been going too far and too fast and next year looks much worse than this one....
...Eg implications for pensions, healthcare, social cohesion (cake not growing much) &c &c. It seems to me that much is implicitly premised on (r – g) being small....
...Peter Spencer, Ernst & Young Item Club: Spending money on Britain’s crumbling infrastructure would help to boost demand while improving the supply side....
...John Van Reenen, LSE (I) Dealing with the financial crisis in universities. Reverse the decision to cut the subsidy to obtaining a degree to zero....
...The plan flies in the face of what might be called the Van der Veer Principle – the idea, expressed by outgoing Royal Dutch Shell chief Jeroen van der Veer this week that “if I had been paid 50 per cent...
...Michael Spencer, Icap’s chief executive, says: “All the arrows have pointed in this direction for some time. We had anticipated that there would be a push to clear certain [OTC] products.”...
...John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE 1) A major medium-term risk is that the financial markets are still capable of delivering another near death experience to the real economy....
...C.R.W....
...“The usefulness of a retention bonus is highly debatable given the high value of unvested stock options,” Peter Bogin, headhunter at Spencer Stuart, says....
...John C. Hawksworth, PWC: I think there will be a permanent loss of output, but quantifying this is hard....
...John C....
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