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...Chart of the day Bad commercial real estate loans have overtaken loss reserves at the biggest US banks after a sharp increase in late payments linked to offices, shopping centres and other properties....
...“It’s a mess,” says Tom Evans of the E3G climate think-tank. “It definitely looms over the COP28 negotiations.” So does the Middle East conflict....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...But our attention was properly piqued when the US government last week intervened in a lawsuit triggered by the county’s 2022 default....
...court cases Name: Donald J Trump for President, Inc et al v....
...As one lobbyist for the National Rifle Association tells Osnos, the al-Qaeda attacks were a giant windfall for the US gun lobby....
...Georges and Anthony Karam opened Partisan Café Artisanal in the historical Arts et Métiers district....
...Ben Evans, Levete’s husband, is director of the London Design Festival and co-founder of the city’s Design Biennale; and until recently the couple shared their home with four now-grown children....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...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....
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...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...The UK’s Serious Fraud Office has appointed Sarah Lawson QC as its general counsel, putting two women at the top of the anti-fraud agency. More here....
...(FT latest + FT investigation) Farewell ‘Chainsaw Al’ Dunlap This is a must-read obituary by Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson about a ruthless American asset stripper who caught the eye of the UK’s James Goldsmith...
...There is also a replica of an entire election office network, so hackers can work out how sensitive data is transferred around the system....
...Could the same happen in New York or Crystal City? “Amazon” Cuomo et al will hope not....
...James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington et al were politicians long before presidents shouted in all caps from Twitter accounts....
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...to build the Sizewell B nuclear reactor, and 14 months as a trade department inspector examining the takeover of Harrods department store by Mohamed al-Fayed and his brothers....
...In Glassdoor v Superior Court of Santa Clara County in California, Glassdoor successfully argued that an employer could not compel it to disclose a reviewer’s identity just by claiming the worker had breached...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...One weird consequence is that meetings of the Board’s committees on regulation, consumer protection, financial stability, et al would become open to the public....
...When al-Qaeda attacked the US on 9/11, Evan McMullin was a Central Intelligence Agency trainee preparing for a career in counter-terrorism that would take him from South Asia to the Middle East....
...Viviana Janer, a Democratic county commissioner in Osceola, says the campaign has set up 11 offices along the I-4 corridor, with four of them in Greater Orlando, as the party steps up its efforts to engage...
...The two main candidates could both fall short of a majority if a third-party rival — the independent conservative Evan McMullin or the libertarian Gary Johnson — won a state (such as libertarian-leaning...
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