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...But it takes short-sighted self-interest to a whole new level for Poland et al to threaten to smash apart the mechanisms of the single market and the EU’s common trade policy because of the short-term impact...
...But the documentary is also commendably tough on the grave missteps in environmental policy overseen by Barack Obama, who initially championed the harmful natural gas boom....
...“The most important energy in this movement is coming from young people,” said former US president Barack Obama in his speech at Glasgow yesterday, as he urged young people to pressure governments with their...
...To prolong his power in Israel, Netanyahu effectively joined the Republican party when he spoke to a joint session of Congress against the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by Barack Obama, the then US president...
...This divergence widened sharply after 2012, when President Barack Obama raised capital gains tax rates to 43.4 per cent for short-term gains and 23.8 per cent for longer-term ones (rates subsequently cut...
...Obama of starting “a war” against private equity that was “like when Hitler invaded Poland”....
...President Barack Obama....
...Obama and later revived after Ebola struck in 2014....
...Obama to let the island file for bankruptcy....
...I put this to David Litt, a former senior presidential speech writer to Barack Obama. Jokes — I venture — can get politicians fired. Can they also get them elected?...
...Mr Trump et al do not have any answers. To the contrary, the US president’s fabled “base” will be losers from his trade wars. They have already been robbed by his tax cuts for the very rich....
...Post-closing cock-ups have also popped up recently in the fight between Arconic and hedge fund Elliott as well as a few years ago when Al Jazeera America bought Al Gore’s Current TV....
...Lingering Democratic anger over Republican refusal to vote last year on President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland for the vacant Supreme Court seat also flared....
...US deals worth more than $250bn were announced during Trump’s first 100 days in office, or 25 per cent more than in Barack Obama’s early months....
...The windy city has been home to luminaries such as Frank Lloyd Wright, the Daley political dynasty, Al Capone, Michael Jordan, Studs Terkel and Barack Obama, not to mention the riotous 1968 Democratic party...
...In my day, it was Cronkite, Chancellor et al delivering the good news from Aix to Ghent with a sobriety that was impressive....
...But as YouGov’s Will Jordan points out, a 10-point gap pales in comparison to the +25 margin Barack Obama held over Mitt Romney, or the +52 margin Bill Clinton held over Bob Dole in 1996....
...(Ad Age) Senator Jeff Flake: maybe it’s Garland time The anti-Trump Arizona Republican has long said that if it looks like Clinton will win, it might be time to take up President Barack Obama’s supreme...
...In 2012, Florida was the only state decided by less than a single percentage point as Barack Obama narrowly edged asidebeat Mitt Romney....
...If she wins, as my colleague Sam Fleming notes, part of the reason will be that she has tapped into the flickering optimism around the country that is driving up President Barack Obama’s approval ratings...
...I will discuss the economic effects of protectionism another time. —————————————————————————————————— Footnotes [1] Ricardo Caballero et al have published similar work, and John Cochrane has responded...
...By Mark Goldring of Oxfam From the IMF to the Pope, from President Barack Obama to the World Economic Forum, there is a growing consensus that extreme economic inequality is one of the defining challenges...
...Two successive administrations, under presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama, have largely ignored flex-fuel vehicles....
...Having begun with vaulting hopes, President Barack Obama’s tenure serves as a cautionary reminder – be careful what you wish for, you might actually get it....
...Last month, President Barack Obama said he was “unequivocally committed to net neutrality” and firmly against “the notion that somehow some folks can pay a little more money and get . . . more exclusive...
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