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...In a very interesting paper, Sebastian Hillenbrand from Harvard Business School shows that the secular decline in US government yields can be explained by very narrow time windows around the Federal Reserve...
...The German insurance association recently warned of a “massive increase in payment defaults” after credit insurers paid out more than €1.2bn in 2023, up 44 per cent on 2022....
...But I don’t view this as the best use of fiscal space. You hear people complain that the federal government is spending more on interest than on the military....
...A group of American unions ended its campaign for board seats at Starbucks after progress on collective bargaining agreements for the company’s workers....
...He founded a private bank in Russia right after the fall of the Soviet Union....
...of local government funding....
...Gilbert disputed this, saying he paid for the flights himself, never had a credit card from the non-profit and was doing the work of five employees....
...The SEC is made up of about 5k employees who perform the same job every day regardless of who is heading up the institution or what’s happening in Congress....
...Erik Britton: A huge step up in government support for innovation, including (but not restricted to) direct government funding of R&D....
...According to a 2020 study by the Government Accountability Office, no other US company employs more people who are on some form of federal assistance, such as food stamps....
...Johnson’s government is set to publish its new UK energy strategy on Thursday after several weeks of delays....
...Employees in the United Mine Workers of America union went on strike in April....
...(More here) Europe’s growing supervisory thicket Earlier this year some could be heard arguing that the advent of a new German coalition government after federal elections had the potential to break some...
...Some dismiss the comparison by pointing to today’s economic framework of weaker trade unions and an independent Bank of England with clear, legislated inflation targets....
...“Here you have the Federal Reserve that’s supposed to be an independent central bank for the US government, appointed to set terms that span over the course of presidencies to take politics out of money....
...Trafigura warned Credit Suisse over Gupta invoice The commodities trader warned Credit Suisse last year that its supply-chain finance funds appeared to contain a suspicious invoice from industrialist Sanjeev...
...indebtedness — is still the best benchmark of credit risk....
...I am increasingly convinced that the Federal Reserve will have to break a political logjam and make much larger amounts of short-term credit available to the states on highly concessionary terms....
...9,200 employees....
...Florida’s governor said his state would sue the federal government and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in an effort to allow cruise ships to resume....
...areas of lingering disagreement with the administration, including the scale of help for state and local governments, the language related to unemployment benefits, and the amount of tax credits for child...
...The UK is now lacking competent government and direction, something that came automatically as a member of the EU, as the Union has a clear long run vision and long term planning in place that is addressing...
...officials, and will try to win the support of business and unions this week....
...Banks will receive processing fees, paid by the federal government, for making the loans....
...Companies with up to five employees will be eligible for a one-off payment of €9,000 for three months. Those with up to 10 employees will get €15,000....
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