Hints and tips:
...By not going ahead with [the Trans-Pacific Partnership], he deprived the United States of presence in the economic sense.” Biden’s foreign policy merits “a B or a B+”....
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...“[We] invested some money in China because we could get more value in terms of the strength of the enterprise on the price of security than we could get in the United States,” Munger said at the Daily Journal...
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...of the election big lie, but also of the Covid denialism and the politicisation of mask-wearing here in the United States....
...of state at the start of the 2003 Iraq war....
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...really do want to be part of Russia, et cetera....
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...Pakistan was one of three countries, along with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, that recognised the Taliban regime when it took control of Kabul in 1996....
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Most, however, would agree with Biden’s goal to “place the United States back at the head of the table”. The world, as Biden wrote, does not organise itself....
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...One target is beIN Sports, a Qatari broadcaster owned by Nasser al-Khelaifi, who is also president of France’s Paris Saint-Germain and sits on the powerful executive committee of Uefa, European football’...
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...Certainly, the food remains classic and lush (guinea hen with truffles and Madeira et al), and the prices remain high to the point of becoming a sort of performance art....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Supreme Court ruled to end the separation of students by race in the landmark Brown v Board of Education case in 1954....
...US secretary of state Mike Pompeo blamed the cancellation of the talks on the Taliban, accusing its leaders of backtracking on pledges, including to cut ties with al-Qaeda....
...“[South Korea et al] probably don’t belong in an emerging market index, particularly on the debt side,” added Mr Huebler, who said EM investors generally think they are targeting “countries that have a risk...
...Now: imagine you are the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America. For "cobalt-rich ore," substitute "dollars," or "dollar-denominated assets," or perhaps just "Treasuries."...
...But 15 of the 34 client names listed in the documents in relation to those payments are names of entities/companies that had never heard of Al Alam....
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