Hints and tips:
...“The prospect of criminally indicting a former president is something that is better left to other countries,” he told lawyer and podcast host David Lat in February....
...“We are at a point now where [regulation] is not a luxury,” says Professor David Leslie of The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI....
...“If I’m an outside lawyer at a prestigious firm looking at that, I may say, ‘I don’t want to get involved in that because it seems like a lost cause’,” said David Lat, a managing director at legal recruiter...
...(FT, LAT) The coming deluge of pandemic litigation Coronavirus has wrought untold damage, both economic and physical. But is anyone at fault? And should somebody pay?...
...(FT, LAT, Reuters) Follow our outbreak tracker and live coverage here, and sign up here to receive our Coronavirus Business Update newsletter in your inbox....
...(FT) Questions around new LAT owner's business The purchase of the Los Angeles Times by biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong caused some journalists — particularly in the LAT newsroom — to cheer....
...While the Palo Alto-based company had first signalled that it was behind on production lat month when it first reported producing far fewer models of the car, the latest quarterly update suggested the problems...
...(To give you a sense of how LAT journalists felt about Tronc, cheers apparently erupted as news of the sale spread through the newsroom.)...
...(LAT) Video of the day Article 50: defusing the Brexit time bomb? The EU and UK are squaring up for a tough battle as Brexit negotiations get under way....
...(Yusef Salaam, WaPo) Dems dream of a takeover (David Leonhardt, NYT) Political sideshow Introducing the Sexy Ken Bone Halloween costume Sure, why not?...
...-David Mandel, showrunner ofVeep. (LAT) “No, I do not believe that.” -Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, breaking with her candidate to say that she does not think the election will be rigged....
...(Victor David Hanson, Tribune) I’m the Republican former head of GM and I’m voting Clinton (Daniel Akerson, WaPo) Clinton and the ghosts of MTV (Tabitha Soren, NYT) Political Sideshow The Trumperor has...
...(LAT) A comprehensive history of Trump pivots There have been at least 10 so far, but they don’t seem to have taken hold....
...(CNN) Chart of the day Reporter David Fahrenthold spent the day trying to find the last time Trump gave a personal donation to charity....
...David Cameron hopes to hold on to power and deliver a referendum on EU membership even if he fails to win an outright majority....
...Plus: Stern on EM energy; hyperinflation in Caracas; art and diamonds in China; and RIP, the lat....
...The announcement lat last year by deputy prime minister Ali Babacan year that generous incentives would be offered to companies developing new power plants burning domestic coal, was followed in late December...
...The Lithuanian litas and the Estonian kroon, which are, like the lat, pegged to the euro, also remained under pressure....
...The government had hoped to raise 50m lats ($100.7m)....
...He also said the bank was following closely the situation in Latvia, where a debt auction failed this week amid worries that the country would have to devalue its currency, the lat, which is pegged against...
...There have been rumours in the market that the country’s currency, the Lat, may have to be devalued. It is currently trading at a record low within the band at which it is pegged to the euro....
...The Lat fell to a low of 0.7073 to the Euro from the 0.696 level adopted since January 2005 when the peg was adopted....
...The central bank has intervened to support the Lats and raised interest rates....
...Better Lat The European summit offers a chance for EU leaders to get together – and political families too....
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