Hints and tips:
...On Friday, I’ll publish an interview with Agustín Carstens, head of the BIS and the central bankers’ central banker. Meanwhile, email me: robert.armstrong@ft.com....
...The causes of these breakouts were different, but the key protagonists were all part of the shadow banking universe, and each had been a risk lying in plain sight....
...Ivan Krastev is co-author of The Light That Failed, a prizewinning book on central European politics....
...The architect scrambled to explain: “The word Corridoor, Madam, is foreign, and signifies in plain English, no more than a passage.”...
...“Some people might have a more opportunistic approach rather than the US space, which is obviously very consolidated,” he adds....
...They refer only to a consolidated marketplace of a billion people. Someday, we will put an end to misogyny and caste, reclaim our streets, our lives, our dreams....
...The peshmerga are a cohesive force, but woefully under-armed and better fighters in the Kurdish mountains than in the plains....
...The festival is held at the end of the summer pasturing season, just before the winter snows begin to fall, as the shepherds are preparing to take their flocks down to the plains for winter....
...The plain truth is that the majority of the Italian electorate has not voted for them....
...And according to the Cover, the data will appear in the ECB’s consolidated financial statements for the eurozone, published every Tuesday at 2pm London time....
...A (white) security guard’s leaning against the wall, watching the scene with plain amusement....
...Since the mid-19th century, the Windy City has thrived as a hub for trading the produce grown on the vast plains of the US Midwest prairie....
...Inter-dealer brokers have consolidated in recent years, developing electronic trading platforms for most plain “vanilla” deals such as buying and selling the main currencies and bonds....
...We need much stronger standards for openness, transparency, and plain, common sense language throughout the financial system....
...“Since then, we have always looked at risk from a consolidated perspective....
...But the exploit that excited drawing-room admiration in the capitals of Europe - and St Petersburg - was Shamil’s daring abduction of two Georgian princesses from their palace on the southern plains....
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