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...Viewpoints When a former vice-president spurns his former president, we ought to sit up and notice, writes Edward Luce in the Swamp Notes newsletter....
...There were then furores involving two of the broadcaster’s biggest stars, Huw Edwards and Gary Lineker....
...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...
...Columnist Edward Luce praises US president Joe Biden for soothing tensions between Washington and Beijing....
...Miles Johnson had a fascinating investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and its sanctions-evasion network in Africa and beyond....
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...Just as Al Capone was nailed for false accounting not gangland killings, Johnson’s Christmas parties are a window into his vandalism of far weightier conventions, such as those embedded in Britain’s unwritten...
...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...
...Here’s a quick list of recent mega-transactions either in the works or agreed: Johnson & Johnson agreed to buy cardiovascular technology group Abiomed for $16.6bn including debt....
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...It was started 15 years ago by the Eurosceptic business secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg; Dominic Johnson, a former vice chair of the Conservative party; and fund manager Edward Robertson....
...In 1936, King George V died and David became King Edward VIII. But his decision to marry the twice-divorced American Wallis Simpson soon forced his abdication....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...I am thinking here of the demise of Al Franken, the former Saturday Night Live comedian turned highly effective Democratic senator from Minnesota....
...‘After the Tories ditch Johnson, they need to reset their values’ Boris Johnson’s premiership has been largely spent sabotaging his own “oven-ready” Brexit agreement and mismanaging Covid-19....
...UK prime minister Boris Johnson said this week that it was “touch and go” whether COP26 would be a success....
...The 9/11 attacks marked the only time Nato has invoked its Article V mutual defence clause — following an assault on America, not Europe....
...Under an ETS, companies that exceed their carbon allowances must buy more. And companies with a surplus of carbon allowances can sell them for profit. Earlier this year, China launched a national ETS....
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