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...Eric Pickles, the former Tory cabinet minister who now chairs Acoba, said in an interview last week that the body was toothless — a situation that could be remedied “in the bat of an eye” by ministers....
...Additional reporting by Robert Smith in London and Eric Platt in New York...
...This collection of stories will help you navigate the life-long art of making friends....
...More than 40 states reported stronger year-on-year corporate and personal tax revenues, with 38 showing higher general sales tax collections....
...But the lack of a traditional corporate governance structure could soon turn into a problem once the billionaire hands over the torch, DD’s Eric Platt reports from the scene....
...Urban Institute data show state tax collections have dropped more than 3 per cent for the pair between March and November of last year versus the same period in 2019....
...From the start, returning costume designer Eric Daman intended to ignite trends through a “campy,” heightened and heavily accessorised vision — like a living fashion editorial....
...In contrast, after years of playing hardball with the IRS, Smith has arguably emerged relatively unscathed....
...Read the full story from the FT’s Cynthia O’Murchu and DD’s Rob Smith here....
...Catch up with the story by DD’s Rob Smith and the FT’s Michael Pooler and Sylvia Pfeifer here. And we’ve pulled together a collection of our reporting on the Greensill story here....
...to Eric Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston....
...This reflects the slowdown in collection rates of OCC in China as well as low operating rates among containerboard producers there....
...Sign up here Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Kaye Wiggins and Robert Smith in London, Javier Espinoza in Brussels, James Fontanella-Khan, Ortenca Aliaj, Sujeet Indap, Eric Platt and Mark Vandevelde...
...“We have around 400 colours in our collection,” says colour director Eric Vitus, a former scientist wearing a white lab coat who has cooked up the recipe for each new hue for 15 years — internally, he’s...
...For now, though, Xi Jinping’s pet project (planned drawings pictured) is no more than a collection of billboards and hastily assembled offices in soggy wheat fields....
...Scottish author Ali Smith captures this beautifully in her 2015 collection Public Library and Other Stories: “We went to the library. And nobody bought books when I was young either....
...The work was authenticated by the specialist Eric Turquin who says his attribution was “impossible to question, even in this age of doubt”....
...And Eric Schmidt, who was Google’s chairman at the time, also had a close relationship with a fellow worker....
...But some fear the coronavirus crisis is being used as an excuse to undermine efforts by central bankers and financial supervisors to climate-proof financial systems....
...These days the biggest empires are collections of companies rather than swaths of continents, but that hardly makes them less formidable....
...The intensely private Mr Drahi’s personal collection includes 20th century works by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, and he is also keen on French Orientalist painters such as Théodore Géricault...
...The Leaf Supply Guide to Creating Your Indoor Jungle by Lauren Camilleri and Sophia Kaplan (Smith Street, £25)Curating and displaying a collection of houseplants can influence interior design as much as...
...The takeover means the world’s two largest auction houses are owned by French billionaires, including the intensely private Mr Drahi, whose personal collection includes works by Picasso, Matisse and Delacroix...
...This wasn’t your typical capsule collection, the sort that H&M and Target have flanked over the past decade....
...(FT) Suing the poor A medical staffing business owned by Blackstone was bringing aggressive debt collection lawsuits against low-income patients — until journalists called....
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