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...Many longer-term forces have undermined the economic and social position of the working class of the high-income democracies....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Median household income had begun to stagnate in the late 1970s....
...The southern term “good ol’ boy” originally meant folk from round here — much like the characters in The Dukes of Hazzard, the 1980s TV show....
...Bank, Franklin Templeton and Neuberger Berman, to name a few....
...The gap has also been widening, rising by 2.34 years for men and 2.91 years for women since 2001 (source: Chetty et al 2016) – with deaths by suicides, substance abuse, and drug overdoses rising for certain...
...The net effect can be seen below: According to Greenspan et al, the shifting proportion of workers to retirees will supposedly increase demand for goods and services relative to supply....
...Unfortunately, he sees no end to the current upswing in inequality in the high-income countries. This creates disturbing political dangers....
...(Also, Ben Bernanke et al had written a book arguing in favour of explicit numerical inflation targets in the interim, which may have influenced a few people.)...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Osborne praises the independence of the OBR – to laughter from the front bench – Chote et al have managed to overshadow today’s statement. 12.37 The OBR has reduced its assumptions about spare capacity...
...al at a national level....
...Ms Merkel et al might like to start with an 80 year-old tome – Philip Carret’s classic from 1930, The Art of Speculation (reprinted 1997)....
...They have stood up a Civil Society 2.0 Initiative to help grassroots organizations enter the digital age....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...And if Al Sharpton, Mike Bloomberg, and Newt Gingrich can agree that we need to solve it, then all of us can agree on that....
...The effective federal funds rate had already hit zero by the end of 2008....
...al?...
...As Franklin Roosevelt once reminded Americans, “Each age is a dream that is dying, or one that is coming to birth.” And we live in the country where the biggest dreams are born....
...Again, Hugenholtz et al, point out that the majority of cases brought under the Directive have been about databases that would have been created anyway - telephone numbers, television schedules, concert...
...I have lived my life within my income and I would like the government to do the same.”...
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