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...chatted with some of my US colleagues about why they got into journalism and what it’s like in their respective cities: featuring Ed Luce, Rana Foroohar, Tabby Kinder, Brooke Masters, Rob Armstrong and Colby...
...Join Chris, Martin Sandbu, Claire Jones, Martin Arnold and Colby Smith tomorrow 1-2pm BST for a subscriber-exclusive webinar to unpick lessons from central banks’ battle against inflation....
...US manufacturing employment has hit its highest levels since George W Bush’s presidency, but its growth has slowed significantly this year and continues to lag behind the rest of the labour market....
...But the closest kind of event to what we saw in 2020 was probably the 2000 election during the Bush versus Gore presidential election....
...Additional reporting by Colby Smith in Washington...
...The president has also called for the reinstatement of the ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, which was allowed to expire during the presidency of George W Bush after being introduced in...
...Powell — who was elevated to Fed chair by Donald Trump in 2017 after serving as a governor from 2012, and once worked as a top Treasury official under George HW Bush — received 80 votes in support, while...
...It mirrors the standing of some of her predecessors in the job, including Henry Paulson under George W Bush, who were known for their expertise rather than their political or communications skills....
...The outbreak of war in Europe meant foreign policy was at the fore of the State of the Union speech, arguably more so than at any time since George W Bush’s 2002 salvo against the “Axis of Evil” in the aftermath...
...During his tenure, Quarles, a Republican who once worked as a top Treasury official under George W Bush, led a number of initiatives to weaken some of the regulations Raskin was responsible for helping to...
...“Ben will replace a legend,” Bush said....
...He then moved to Wall Street to work for investment bank Dillon Read under Nicholas Brady, later Treasury secretary to Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush....
...Powell, who was tapped by Donald Trump in early November 2017 to lead the Fed and previously served as a top Treasury official under George H W Bush, has already won the backing of a number of Republican...
...staffer who now is vice-chair at Evercore ISI, said the Democratic party’s electoral drubbing this week may have further tipped the balance in favour of Powell — a former Treasury official under George HW Bush...
...Powell, 68, was elevated to Fed chair by Trump in 2017 after serving as a governor from 2012 and once worked as a top Treasury official under George HW Bush....
...Republican was originally appointed by Barack Obama to the Fed’s board in 2012, at which point he had not worked in government in the almost two decades since he held a senior Treasury position in George HW Bush...
...Elbridge Colby, a former senior Pentagon official, said greater clarity on Taiwan was very valuable because US “credibility is already on the line”....
...The delegation included Michèle Flournoy, a former top Pentagon official, Evan Medeiros, a former White House Asia adviser to Barack Obama, and Mike Green, who held the same position for George W Bush....
...Additional reporting by Dan Dombey in Madrid, Colby Smith in Washington, George Parker in London, Robin Wigglesworth in Oslo...
...Potential Republican foils including George W Bush, James Baker and Nikki Haley, Tye says, have remained on the sidelines, and those who have stood up to Trump — Cheney and Senator Mitt Romney — have been...
...Coronavirus vaccine development has presented pharmaceutical companies with a shot at redemption and, as Colby Smith writes, has sent tremors through the bond market....
...President Bush extended that directive through executive order in 2004 and continued doing so through the end of his second term. President Obama did the same through 2014....
...President Bush implemented the ban through executive order in 2004, and every year until the end of his second term under the auspices of it being a matter of national security....
...During the Gulf War, the Bush administration intervened on both sides of the market, and more recently, the G7 worked together to weaken the yen after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011....
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