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...Top stories today Zero growth | The UK economy stagnated in the three months to September, according to official figures that highlight the challenge facing chancellor Jeremy Hunt as he seeks to revive...
...The change in tone frustrates Sir Jony Ive, RCA chancellor and Apple’s former chief design officer....
...Low rates contradict warnings from UK chancellor Rishi Sunak on borrowings....
...Carmen Reinhart, the eminent economic historian who is now chief economist at the World Bank, recommended countries should borrow heavily during the pandemic....
...“The situation is frankly good,” Carmen Calvo, the deputy prime minister, said on February 25. In fact, it was already very bad....
...Chancellor Angela Merkel has been lukewarm in support for some of Mr Macron’s integration goals....
...No one quite knows how it will end: Mr Seehofer could, theoretically, enforce his new policy by ministerial decree, against the express wish of the chancellor....
...She will speak on Wednesday, while chancellor Philip Hammond speaks on Monday....
...UK chancellors have been here twice before in the past 30 years....
...Since the first Greek rescue loan was granted in May 2010, Germany’s chancellor and Europe’s most powerful politician has cajoled her parliamentarians into endorsing bailout deals for Greece, Ireland, Portugal...
...Chancellor Leo Strine, the judge, said that Goldman’s top energy banker “failed to disclose his own personal ownership of approximately $340,000 in Kinder Morgan stock, a very troubling failure that tends...
...George Osborne, chancellor, feels vindicated for having imposed a multiyear plan of deficit reduction and stuck to it....
...Now the UK chancellor’s plan is under growing pressure....
...The lawsuit led to a sharp rebuke from Delaware Chancellor Leo Strine, and Kinder Morgan agreed to settle the case for $110m last year....
...The Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff had posited that debt above 90 per cent of national income was almost always associated with significantly reduced growth....
...Reinhart & Rogoff is still ongoing, meme status inevitable: Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff wrote a letter to Paul Krugman. He responded, and so did some others. (DeLong for Krugman; Hamilton for R&R.)...
...The paper, by Harvard academics Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, suggested that countries whose debt levels exceed 90 per cent of national income are prone to slow growth....
...Chancellor Angela Merkel last week sought to play down the issue, saying France’s impending breach was “not new” to her, telling reporters she would leave it up to Mr Rehn to decide....
...“Growth in a Time of Debt” by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff has served as an important intellectual bulwark in support of austerity policies in the US and Europe....
...A couple of years back, when Carmen Reinhart and Belen Sbrancia updated the concept whereby governments might deal with a problematic mountain of debt by confiscating the savings of their subjects, the discussion...
...Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has spoken along these lines recently. Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, is on a similar page....
...Between the acceptance of the Worshipful Company of Carmen (No. 77) in 1746 and the master mariners (78) in 1932, there was not a single newcomer to the ranks....
...The writer is professor of economics at Harvard University and co-author with Carmen Reinhart of ‘This Time is Different’...
...Pace George Osborne, the chancellor, we have never been all in this together. Sure, ministers have taken a pay cut. They have also capped the salaries of senior officials. This is gesture politics....
...But he has been consulted by President Barack Obama and is known to have spent many hours with George Osborne, Britain’s chancellor....
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