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...His parents protested against the Vietnam war and even took an American draft dodger into their home at one point....
...Overall, the consensus view is that the rules are more demanding than the status quo, but more lax than the former framework that was suspended in 2020, and which was not consistently enforced....
...“We think the starting point is transparency,” said Dawes, referring to potential recommendations....
...Under the framework, the commission will draw up national spending plans over four years ensuring debt is put on a declining path....
...The 10-year Treasury yield has risen more than 3 percentage points in the past two years....
...But as Peretz points out, one person’s “nimbler” or “more permissive” is another person’s “unprincipled” or “lax”. Kotsonis tends to this view also....
...The four Nordic nations last year agreed to pool their air forces, which combined are roughly the size of the UK’s Royal Air Force....
...Two of these four are changing, with globalisation replaced by fragmentation and wage shares rising....
...But these were lenders that failed because of panicked depositor runs, lax regulation and generally bad management....
...“It’s a super-lax programme,” he says. “It’s giving a false sense of prosperity.” Much depends on the next government, which will take office in December....
...Against the grain Four months ago, Poland pledged $20mn to help export grain from Ukraine. Yesterday, its prime minister called for measures to curb those exports....
...As Jon Danielsson and Charles Goodhart of the London School of Economics point out, the longer monetary policy stayed lax, the more systemic risk increased, along with a growing dependence on money creation...
...Raya JalabiThe UN can only distribute aid via one crossing point. And that crossing point was damaged during the earthquake. So it took four days for the repairs to get done....
...“At some point I might have more to say about a particular sparring partner, so to speak. But you know, glass houses. So for now, all I’ll say is: well played; you won.”...
...Thom Brooks Excellent point. An excellent point....
...When Sausages arrived the following night, there were four other strangers sitting in the pick-up truck....
...An ally of President Alberto Fernández, Guzmán is the latest and most senior of four cabinet members to step down in recent months....
...Opponents say the additional reporting would be burdensome, but that misses the point....
...France and the US have invested nearly two percentage points of GDP less this century than they did in the 1970s and 1980s; Germany and Italy about 4.5 points less; the UK and Japan 6 and 10 percentage points...
...The home has four swimming pools and a private orchard....
...Four-fifths have a favourable opinion of the Queen, putting her clear of the next most popular royal, Prince William....
...He and his partner of four years, Aileen Sheehan, 35, each live with their parents while they try to save for a house....
...The real sore point is moderation. Some users believe passionately that it is too restrictive. Others say it is too lax. Both sides claim it is ruining Twitter....
...Its somewhat hidden location on a graffiti-covered side street was a deliberate choice for manager and co-founder Edouard Lax....
...Easy money encouraged more lax lending. Record covenant-lite debt issuance followed. And to some investors, governments have only succeeded in putting off the pain....
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