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...As tyranny’s appeal seems to grow around the world, Martin Wolf reminds us that democracy is still better than autocracy....
...Independent presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr is expected to announce his running mate within the next two weeks....
...Logan doesn’t push his kids to flatter him, like Donald Trump did when he interviewed Donald Jr and Ivanka on camera. But he has fixed expectations: he wants his children to be like him....
...From Off-White to Etro, Arnault keeps consolidating The wolf in cashmere is trying streetwear on for size....
...Well that’s the hope, anyway.” — Donald Sharpe, Vienna, Austria...
...He added: “President Donald J Trump will serve 4 more years!!!” The post has almost 80,000 upvotes, and has been viewed 3.5m times....
...My colleague Martin Wolf asks the intriguing question of whether we could be returning to an era of inflation....
...Then Donald Trump changed her life....
...Donald Jr, his eldest son, mounted a staunch defence of the president’s first term on Monday night, in which he accused the Democrats of being soft on crime....
...At which point, I yelled three letters at the television: L, B and J, as in Lyndon Baines Johnson....
...After all, a shepherd in sheep's clothing might be said to have something of the wolf about him....
...Don’t miss The IMF’s World Economic Outlook Update for June is not a cheerful document, writes Martin Wolf....
...Edward Luce responds I don't think we're in much danger of seeing the establishment of a Trump dynasty with Donald Trump Jr succeeding his father, or indeed Ivanka and Jared jointly taking the throne....
...US Treasury secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr, closing address at Bretton Woods Conference, July 22, 1944 “We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies...
...Among the individuals that the judiciary committee is seeking information from are top Trump Organization executives, including the president’s sons Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump, as well as Alan Garten...
...(Economist, FT) Martin Wolf responds to Putin — in Russian Martin Wolf’s latest column, in which he makes an economic counterargument to Vladimir Putin’s claim in an exclusive interview with the FT that...
...(FT) Trump backtracks Donald Trump scrapped plans for a citizenship question on the 2020 US census....
...US equity and bond markets are closed on Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr Day, while the government shutdown could delay some economic reports....
...He opines that the state of so many Americans is in part a product of plutocratic politics, that President Donald Trump is the logical outcome of a politics that serves the interests of the plutocracy, and...
...This week’s revelations about Donald Trump Jr are a case in point. For the first time since Mr Trump took office, the word “treason” has entered the currency....
...That’s the reaction of Russians at the centre of claims that Donald Trump Jr sought to collude with Moscow to undermine Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign....
...Meanwhile, Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort were scheduled to appear before Senate committees this week....
...(Politico, The Local France, France24) Trump claims innocence Donald Trump declared that his son was “innocent” as the scandal over Donald Trump Jr’s meeting with a Russian lawyer escalated....
...Email: mehreen.khan@ft.com Twitter: @mehreenkhn Chart du jour: A world of debt Martin Wolf is feeling cheerier about the state of the world economy. However, there’s a “but”....
...Finally, Donald Trump Jr, along with the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and son-in-law Jared Kushner, have been asked to testify in the Russia probe....
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