Hints and tips:
...“Anybody who does football and says this is a pure investment, in 95 per cent of the case he’s a liar,” Sawiris said. “It’s a passion. It’s addictive....
...James Politi I think on the Democratic side, the challenge for the election is going to be to really pin this, be able to pin this specifically on Donald Trump, because the overturning of Roe v Wade happened...
...In his excellent piece on the concerns that corporate America is playing down the risks of a return to the White House for Donald Trump (“Wall Street’s bargain with Trump”, Opinion, January 25)...
...The bigger issues are found by getting into the weeds and balancing the two — does the office inspire and innovate, and what really drives performance?...
...However, even more interesting (and counter-intuitive) is Rogoff et al’s failure to find a statistical correlation between real rates and fundamental economic trends....
...Even economist Arthur Laffer, a champion of the Trump tax cuts who has been floated as a Trump pick for Fed chair, has advocated for a carbon tax....
...Donald Trump told Republicans in the House not even to vote on it. He does not want this issue at the border fixed....
...Bunzl, Howdens et al are generally smaller than the household names, and smaller companies can grow faster. Bunzl’s revenues, for example, have increased from £2.7bn to £11.8bn over the past 20 years....
...Trump’s deal with the Taliban was a terrible one....
...By this metric, the 2020 election was slightly closer than Trump’s 2016 victory, and the closest since 2000, when George W Bush beat Al Gore in Florida by just a few hundred votes....
...If the highest officer in the land does not qualify then the law would make no sense at all....
...“Great for Al, bad for America,” says a woman near me, swigging back the dregs of her beer. Al, who is sitting across the table, has put money on the Chiefs and is looking smug....
...How much does its loss matter? After all, its exclusive access to the counterculture had long been waning....
...Naturally, we are told by the likes of Google, Meta, Microsoft et al that using AI to help solve the planet’s warming crisis is a wonderful idea....
...But does it work?...
...Israel-Hamas war: Israel’s second raid on Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital is stretching into its ninth day and shaping into the biggest battle of the nearly six-month war....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Productivity-hype bubbles are usually separated by at least 25 years and usually form at the end of a secular bull market, when aggregate profits are coming under pressure, say Garthwaite et al....
...“That very low bar . . . the president of the US does not meet.”...
...Bored of words, Ma et al. then tried numbers — roughly recreating the ratio of earnings revisions deployed above, but utilising forecasts of “earnings and other metrics” instead of just rating labels: We...
...Buonanno et al conclude from a study of their tax returns that purging City Hall of mobsters results in “a significant and sizeable increase of social capital” over the long term....
...Wherever possible lies should be told about classes of people (Republicans, elites, big business, the media, et al) not specific individuals....
...Most of the international community considers the settlements to be illegal, although the US partially reversed its stance when Donald Trump was president....
...Another, similar question: What does this mean for Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, et al? Handily this has the same answer: it’s not good either!...
...But, over time, “small-capitalisation” stocks trump larger stocks in every single major market studied by academics over the decades....
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