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...As we’ve covered previously, the US’s auto insurance rates have soared 24 per cent over the past two years (v BLS data)....
...Despite the discomfort of King George V — whose cousin the Tsar had been executed by the Bolsheviks — Labour formally recognised the Soviet Union....
...Brzezinski, whose late father was Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, is another of Biden’s Polish ties....
...So a lot of that is coming from freezing national insurance thresholds, particularly for companies. But that ultimately goes into our wage packets....
...Jimmy Carter, one example of that; George HW Bush — maybe not divisive, but not successful. It was seen in that in terms of domestic politics....
...Now, as President Biden’s nominee to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, she is being counted on by progressives to do the same in urban areas across the US....
...“Cy has very progressive instincts but I think he was also brought along by the times . . ....
...It’s paying people, who have been unemployed, more in unemployment insurance than they earned when they were working. It’s giving cheques to families in the 90th percentile of income distribution....
...Financials the key sector beneficiary: We are Overweight Banks and Insurance from a top-down strategy perspective....
...CIB missed on lower EQ revenues, while Insurance & Corporate Center beat. Payments were line....
...Less than a week ago, the stage was set for Donald Trump to follow in the footsteps of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and have his own Camp David moment....
...The environmental party’s ambitions to represent a progressive “new normal in society” are embodied by Robert Habeck, a novelist-turned-politician and ubiquitous television talk show presence who recently...
...The statement says that going forward the dividend will be maintained until the cover rises from the current 1.75x to 2x and then becomes progressive. The conference call concentrated on the obvious....
...“But Obamacare also had universal benefits — the kids on your insurance until age 26 and prohibition of pre-existing condition policies.” The WWC liked those bits....
...Among the many tradeoffs emphasised by economists are guns v butter, public v private, efficiency v equity, quality v quantity or cost and short-term v long-term performance....
...This is the kind of progressive social policy that this Government is proud to pioneer....
.../ From Thomas V Czarnowski Mysterious workings of German postal service / From Indermohan Virk An expensive luxury whose day is over / From Jan Manning...
...This will remove over £1bn from the cost of providing motor insurance. We expect the industry to pass on this saving, so motorists see an average saving of £40-50 per year off their insurance bills....
...(Just to get in my own teeny anti-Govian strike: even George V – that famous leftwinger – called WW1 “that horrible and unnecessary war”)....
...Switzerland, long under pressure given its reputation as a haven for kleptocrats, has emerged as one of the most progressive jurisdictions....
...(He compared the individual mandate obliging Americans to buy health insurance or else pay a fine to the government compelling the country to eat that vegetable.)...
...Sir Paul has given £5m to the V&A and £3m to the British Museum’s new medieval gallery....
...“There has been considerable improvement in social welfare in the last five years,” said V. Krishnananth, a Chennai-based author on Indian politics....
...I’d call that gold-plated headline-chasing http://is.gd/b5wxg 8.30pm (AB) Not one of the chancellors in waiting could bring themselves to saying the letters V A or T....
...Wendell V. Graham, Washington DC, USA TF: In total about 24 UK stocks can be bought in the US....
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