Hints and tips:
...a busy part of London surrounded by throngs of tourists — the slowest walkers on Planet Earth....
...However, Bebchuk et al conclude that this throws the ball into the government’s court....
...And the Norwegians are eager to help, for example through the Oil for Development programme, run by the Norwegian Agency for Development Coordination....
...Could the same happen in New York or Crystal City? “Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not....
...“The UAE dominates 90 per cent of trade between GCC [states] and Iran, even after the blockade with Qatar,” says Lulwa al-Khater, Qatar’s foreign ministry spokeswoman....
...I have seen no data to show how Facebook and Twitter et al advance happiness or social cohesion....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...This has been a year of reckoning for Uber and for Travis Kalanick, the aggressive chief who led the company through eight years of record-breaking growth....
...I’d set up and capitalise a European debt management agency to create ESBies (the European safe bonds of Brunnermeier et al). I’d set up a eurozone growth capital fund for fast-growing companies....
...From the latest BIS quarterly review, in particular its bit on dollar credit to EMs (our emphasis): [Fed largesse]… drove a surge in issuance by both long-standing issuers and new ones (Mizen et al (2012...
...Like “6x6”, it’s a kind of maze, inducing a dreamlike state as you move about, glimpsing shadowy figures through the scrim or through the doorways....
...He said this even after Fox News had retracted a report that Birmingham (England, not Alabama) was a city inhabited totally by Muslims. (Also see Ben Carson et al on black people.)...
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...chart from Cap Econ attempting to summarise China’s current position from a purely economic standpoint: And an extra large chart covering RMB promotion from Xi et al from Deutsche for those who can be bothered...
...In addition, the institutional investors believed the federal (and state) regulators of the banking system would be combing through loan books and aggressively using their authority to protect the banking...
...So the FDIC as liquidator of Penn Square et al asserted that the “sales” of loan participations by Penn Square and the others were not “true sales” that gave rights to the underlying collateral (whatever...
...The study by Bigsten et al in 2003 found that small firms have historically had a significantly greater chance of being rejected by banks than larger firms....
...Bayer is less well known than his contemporaries at the Bauhaus – Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy et al – perhaps because, having emigrated from Germany in 1938, he spent so much of...
...Through war, more powerful and effective states emerge and these in turn do not merely offer the blessings of peace, but impose it. The thesis is disturbingly persuasive....
...“Dubai’s economy is well diversified and resilient to external as well as domestic shocks,” Sami al-Qamzi, director-general of Dubai’s department of economic development....
.../ From Mr Richard Walker...
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...Roth, 57, born in Stuttgart, arrived at the V&A after 10 years as director-general of the Dresden State Art Collections, overseeing 12 museums and galleries....
...A similar 2009 study by Mikael Höök et al. found a production-weighted average decline rate of 5.5 percent per year. Other estimates have ranged as high as 8 percent....
...The clash of church and state at the heart of the story reverberates to this day....
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