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...It’s another big week for central banks....
...Yoojin Choi was co-curator of “Hallyu!...
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...But despite that, Peter the whistleblower and Ivan the central banker, they still believe Sergei and his co-founder should return to Russia and face trial, even if that means their fate is sealed....
...If the risks are deemed low, he could be released on a life licence....
...These are like acupuncture needles attached by tube to a canister of CO₂; treating musculoskeletal problems is one of the resort’s main offerings....
...Mainstream economics notoriously confuses wellbeing and quality of life with the more quantitative measure of living standards....
...But the only countries to have sanctioned it are the European Union. The United States has not sanctioned it....
...The issue was crucial for Ping An because it owns HSBC through its life insurance arm, using the normally reliable HSBC dividend to offset its long-term insurance liabilities....
...It spent most of its life as a straightforward private-equity-backed insurance brokerage firm and expanded quickly through a series of acquisitions....
...The co-ownership model means less competition for single family homes....
...“And the city never had a co-ordinated land policy in response....
...UK supermarkets are having to increase wages to combat staff shortages in what one union has called a “market correction”....
...Global financial police Like so much else in American life, the new era of financial warfare began on 9/11....
...If you take the 48 per cent who voted Remain, plus Labour voters, plus Liberal Democrats, plus Scottish unions, plus people in trade unions, it’s a big blob....
...(Israel has universal healthcare supplemented by private insurance.)...
...In the 1970s, inflation created a distributional conflict between the unions and the employers....
...But last week, it published a shortlist of three names, among them Petra Hielkema, director for insurance supervision at the Dutch central bank, who is widely seen as the frontrunner....
...Life is even tougher for insurance companies....
...Ping An Sector: insurance / HQ: Shenzhen, China The Chinese insurance group reported its first annual fall in net profits for more than a decade in 2020....
...(FT) Turkish lira tumult Turkey’s currency tumbled as much as 14 per cent on Monday, following the dismissal of the country’s central bank chief over the weekend....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Russia will supply 300m doses of its Sputnik V vaccine to the African Union....
...It is about time the central bank did the same....
...If “working from home” is set to become part of everyday life, the answer could be: never....
...Average sale prices there increased 5.3 per cent in the year to March, while those in Dublin gained 0.7 per cent, according to Ireland’s Central Statistics Office....
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