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...In an email to several non-profit organisations, a Treasury official said the department had been “pressing [World Bank] management to be more ambitious and proactive in a number of areas”, such as “exercising...
...He gives a rich account of the strengths and weaknesses of Attlee’s administration, its internal conflicts and the external constraints — such as the abrupt end of Lend-Lease finance from the US in 1945...
...Would a different cast of characters in Downing Street have led the country to a different pandemic outcome? Or were they operating within a structure that would set any administration up to fail?...
...The president has entrusted a new generation of progressive officials to head Washington’s most powerful antitrust enforcers and regulators: Jonathan Kanter as head of the Department of Justice’s antitrust...
...the US Congress and the administration of President Joe Biden....
...By one account, he’s also the subject of a US Department of Justice Department criminal investigation....
...But within a few minutes’ drive lie the warrens of al-Shati and Jabalia refugee camps — and then, Gaza City, the heart of the militant group’s political and military machinery....
...that Joe Biden and I, and our administration, has done”....
...By the way, I’m still delighted with the sound of Marshall and Cruddas, which I think sounds like a department store in the North. Where did you get your sofa? Oh, Marshall and Cruddas....
...to pressures on government finances....
...Is it the past 13 years of Conservative-led administrations? Does it go back earlier than that?...
...And stretched finances mean a greater need for targeted support....
...Chinese state-backed investors such as the State Administration of Foreign Assets and China Investment Corporation....
...weak or minority Labour administration....
...In the communications sector, the video entertainment companies (Warner Bros Discovery, Paramount, Disney, Netflix et al) explain the bulk of the outperformance....
...Corruption scandals have plagued Weah’s administration....
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...of the Biden administration and would be to any American administration....
...And yet, despite all the noise from the Truss administration about a new deregulatory zeal, there are already signs that much of it will mostly be performative....
...Strong faith positions inspire a host of business ventures around the world, from providers of Islamic finance and Buddhist healthcare to purveyors of Kosher foods and Ayurvedic medicine as well as, of course...
...The Patriot Act, the controversial law that provided the basis for the Bush administration’s use of surveillance and indefinite detention, also gave the Treasury department the power to effectively cut off...
...Of course, the Treasury, also to an extent, is sort of dampening ambition in Whitehall departments who, if they thought the public finances were improving slightly, you might sort of think, well, my budget...
...Guedes said the country had entered a “V-shaped” recovery and would grow as much as 2.1 per cent next year, aided by investment commitments from the private sector of more than $100bn....
...events at Chequers and Downing Street that they think may have broken the rules....
...In this week’s episode we’ll first be looking at Starmer’s message to the titans of global finance and how Britain and its economic prospects were viewed by the Davos elite....
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