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...Patronis’s punchy soundbite got attention, but the seeds of his anxiety — felt also by Florida’s 22mn residents — were on stark display at a humdrum insurance meeting with regulators at the state’s capitol...
...“If big insurance companies and friendly billionaires think he’s too big a credit risk, who might bail him out instead? What sort of collateral could Trump offer in return?”...
...But Sam Day, an insurance adviser living in the county, told the FT’s Claire Jones that she is in a “really scary spot” trying to save while she is “just struggling to get by day to day”....
...Yet lobbyists are focusing their efforts on the lending issue as this is seen as more likely to hold sway with politicians on Capitol Hill concerned about the health of the economy....
...In January 2021 he publicly condemned the “demagoguery” of rioters storming the US Capitol....
...Many also claim that bonds provide insurance against the volatility of “risky” equities....
...The case alleges that Trump’s annual financial statements between 2011 and 2021 included more than 200 false or misleading asset valuations designed to reduce borrowing and insurance costs....
...American white nationalists from the Texas Revolution in the 1830s to the Capitol in 2021 wave flags with the apocryphal words molon labe — “come and take it” — supposedly addressed by a Spartan king to...
...Biden is also calling for the deposit insurance fund, which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation relies on to pay back depositors in failed banks, to avoid hitting community banks as it replenishes...
...coronavirus tsar also held senior responsibilities under former President Barack Obama as director of the National Economic Council and as the supervisor of an operation to fix bugs on the government’s health insurance...
...The intervention from Schiff and others comes amid a wider scramble on Capitol Hill by lawmakers to respond to the collapse of SVB....
...His last foreign trip in office, around the time of the January 6 attacks on the US Capitol, involved stops in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and Kuwait....
...The failure of Silicon Valley Bank has exposed fresh divisions on Capitol Hill over banking reform, as US lawmakers from both parties trade blame for the lender’s collapse and squabble over future legislation...
...Barr appeared alongside Martin Gruenberg, chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Nellie Liang, under-secretary for domestic finance at the Treasury....
...(Patrick Temple-West) ESG’s global rise collides with anti-‘woke’ politics in US capitols From Tucker Carlson to Mike Pence, bashing ESG investing has become popular sport among US conservatives....
...The day ahead Capitol riot report The congressional panel probing the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol said yesterday it would delay by at least one day the release of its final report outlining...
...Five major insurers quit the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance as political pressure in the US and fears over legal repercussions plunge climate initiative into crisis....
...Gold also approached the Capitol with Strand, but she didn’t react the way Gilbert did. She was stoked....
...And you end up, you know, with Republicans in Congress and in the Senate trying to pretend that the election was stolen, that Donald Trump wasn’t responsible, at least partly, for the Capitol riots....
...It is an indication of the threat the Georgia grand jury probe poses to Trump and those around him, greater some believe than the congressional January 6 committee investigation into the 2021 Capitol attack...
...Questions about the capacity of collective action extend far beyond the insurance sector....
...Sheila Bair, former chair of the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, writes it is time for regulators to get creative and use their powers to act....
...The Biden administration has called on Congress to pass laws to clarify how cryptocurrencies should be regulated, as officials warned that delays on Capitol Hill could put investors at risk....
...But its investments in vets and insurance are under scrutiny from competition officials....
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