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...Letters in response to this article: Personal insurance — that’s where I feel inflation’s rise / From Sean O’Connor, London SW6, UK Here’s a challenge from a professor of econometrics / From Peter G Moffatt...
...But G goes on leave at this point, handing the file over to H, who drafts a minute, which is signed by D and returned to C, who revises his draft accordingly and lays the new version before A.”...
...Do read Sarah O’Connor on why there’s more to life than GDP, Gideon Rachman on how the west is hedging against a return of Trump and Martin Wolf on the return of global inflation....
...Bernard Ahkong, co-chief investment officer at UBS Asset Management’s hedge fund unit O’Connor, said: “We don’t want companies to boost dividends in an unsustainable fashion only to then have to cut them...
...Big numbers: People are numb to millions, billions and trillions, but that is perhaps exactly what politicians want, writes Sarah O’Connor....
...Here’s O’Connor talking to his friend over text: “Think the boss has inside info. Otherwise, why would he make us invest. Boss lent Waugh and I $500,000 each for this....
...Five top stories from the world of work Let’s not write people off as ‘AI losers’: Sarah O’Connor pushes back at the idea that AI will create winners and losers at work and that losers must be compensated...
...“Every female broadcast journalist working today owes a debt of gratitude to the O.G., Barbara Walters,” wrote former Today show and news anchor Katie Couric in a tribute this week....
...I enjoyed Sarah O’Connor’s piece about what economics is getting wrong in the UK. Boy, is this discipline in need of an overhaul....
...“Healthy life expectancy” is probably a better measure of what people actually want than longevity, writes Sarah O’Connor, but the situation in the UK is not looking good....
...Finally, do read my colleague Sarah O’Connor’s delightfully acerbic takedown of the “quiet quitting” anguish apparently sweeping HR departments....
...They are caught between a rock and a hard place,” said Becky O’Connor, head of pensions and savings at Interactive Investor....
...Likewise, my colleague Sarah O’Connor has an original piece on how we will remember the departing era of cheap money. Goodbye cheap mortgages, endless payment plans and subsidised home delivery....
...Sarah O’Connor responds Ed, you raise the prospect of the end of the US republic....
...But Heidi Shierholz, director of policy at the Economic Policy Institute, says Mr Biden’s approach so far to workers’ rights is very different from previous Democratic presidents Bill Clinton and Barack...
...Now an army of “Covid retirees” is heading for the labour market exit, writes Sarah O’Connor. Technology Thinking about the best technology gifts for Christmas?...
...O’Connor agrees with her: “In a way, if people use one of my pieces, they are contributing to it.”...
...Our own Sarah O’Connor adds that temporary lorry driver visas are a symptom of government failure....
...Jones Day has hired Bridget O’Connor as a partner in its business and tort litigation practice, based in Washington. She joins from Kirkland & Ellis....
...Kendall is passed over by his father to become chief executive, but still ends up singing a laudatory, cringe-inducing rap: “L to the O, G, A, N.”...
...The accident resulted in small fractures that would “likely require a walking boot for several weeks”, according to a statement from Dr Kevin O’Connor of GW Medical Faculty Associates released by the president-elect...
...Floor-to-ceiling bookshelves are stocked with the latest literary releases, while a rare and used section features treasures such as an inscribed edition of John Berger’s erotic historical novel G (€800)...
...Recommended reading I’m once again going to highlight the many wonderful FT pieces I read this week, including Sarah O’Connor’s wise words on why AI “empathy” should be binned, how America’s state-by-state...
...Do read my colleague Sarah O’Connor on how the younger generation is “drowning in insecurity” as we emerge (hopefully) from the pandemic....
...But now the robots have arrived, I realise I was wrong, writes Sarah O’Connor....
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