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...Similarly, local banks and corporations have grown into global multinationals. “They’re not as civically connected as they were,” Ravitch says....
...Meanwhile, the Howard Hughes Corporation continues its redevelopment of Manhattan’s South Street Seaport....
...Puerto Escondido might have ended up as little more than another picturesque fishing village on the Pacific coast of Mexico, if not for a fluke of ocean geography....
...It was no longer a suspicious fluke of financial engineering, but a mainstream option on the menu as corporate Japan restructured and braced for long-term domestic decline....
...Even some corporations are now able to borrow at negative rates. US 10-year Treasury yields fell below 1.4 per cent....
...The Tories cannot be the workers’ party until they discriminate, proudly, between those who earn their money and those who fluke their way into it. janan.ganesh@ft.com...
...Leslie Caldwell, who was confirmed as chief of the DoJ’s criminal division in May, is returning after a decade spent helping defend corporations against civil and criminal investigations....
...much longer than a couple of years” and Patrick Chovanec providing a touch more detail about what all that messy debt actually means: To those who wrote off China’s first banking seizure in June as a fluke...
...Test enough different correlations and fluke results will drown out the real discoveries....
...With 6m people and a 2008 GDP of $20bn, Jordan has less than half the population of Cairo and its economic output equals half the 2008 revenue of the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation....
...So far, tax cuts have been promised to corporations willing to adopt a minor league team, while four provincial governments are planning to set up new teams....
...US outflows to India also soared last year, yet US corporations invested more in Austria and Sweden....
...It is not enough to fluke one neutral, detail-heavy Budget. A ho-hum autumn statement and a humdrum 2009 Budget are required too. Being consistently dreary is not easy....
...Ferguson’s record since then has proved that the upset that year was no fluke....
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