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...In its first forecast for 2023, oil producers’ group said demand would rise by 2.7mn barrels a day to 103mn b/d, fuelled by increased activity, particularly in India and China....
...The intermittency problem is a problem not because of a lack of demand for excess energy, but because of the cost of transferring that excess energy to time periods when it is actually needed....
...Needham and D. Hotson. Charlie Bean: Few downturns are exactly alike....
...Momentum is strong partly because excess savings (as a share of GDP) are higher in the UK than in most EU countries....
...That turned out to be a colossal understatement: the actual increase was about 1.6m b/d, with US output estimated to be running at about 11.6m b/d as 2018 draws to a close....
...This novel by one of Mexico’s most innovative authors is a triumph of narrative skill, humour and lightly worn erudition....
...We employed a curve in which the average grade was a B+, and only a tiny number of students received grades below a C. I told the class this, but it had no effect on the students’ mood....
...Worse still, that a lot of these individuals have no interest in printing for wider distribution....
...Then when D sells to A a software bot (like Ripple) generates a Brent-style Daisy chain A>B>C>D>A and the open obligations settle....
...To Trichet, the problem was a banking panic, a one-off moment of market uncertainty. To King, it was a necessary corrective to a long period of banking excess....
...Social history through the story of a single pub, told by a man you’d genuinely want to drink with. Tim Hayward …………………………………………………………….....
...Three years ago, he could have bought his office space for HK$4m; now he’d have to pay around HK$12m. The fashionable influx has created a “spiral of rent in the neighbourhood,” he says....
...From the FTSE 250, International Trade awards go to Domino Printing Sciences, the Cambridge-based producer of coding and printing technologies, R.D....
...It’s what most pension savers wish they’d achieved. 3. The only way to create better companies, and curb corporate excess, is through shareholder democracy....
...To throw it away in the mistaken belief that printing money can create growth would be a tragedy....
...The idea was also one of those mooted by Sir Gus O’Donnell, cabinet secretary, in a leaked paper last autumn which advocated the preparation of a Plan B ....
...Not only is there a plan B, there is a plan C, a plan D and several others as well. The trouble is that some of them have significant economic costs or risks....
...We’d lose a bit of tax, but the potential benefits to the SME sector would be substantial....
...Convinced that the right format was a book, I went to publisher B....
...In other words, even after a deep recession, there is still a significant level of excess demand....
...(d) a thrust to the food processing sector. 45....
...But I’d have to admit given what has happened this year that I could be wrong about debt deflation. Perhaps we need a new Irving Fisher too!...
...And hopefully they’d say, well he’s a good guy, but we have some strong people. FT: Will you consider external candidates?...
...It is not a perfect tax but the way we are funded enables us to take a long term view, to be the “creative R&D for the nation”....
...In addition, Lenovo has acquired (a) international management expertise and infrastructure (b) design and engineering expertise (c) the ThinkPad franchise and (d) a strategic relationship with IBM....
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