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...John Glen, Cips chief economist, said: “A revival in the services economy is helping the UK’s private sector end the year on a more positive note....
...Letters in response to this editorial: This is not to dismiss ESG’s importance, but . . . / From Nigel Kendall, Worplesdon, Surrey, UK Supreme Court to blame for capitalism culture war / From Allen Kamp...
...The group, which includes Glen Weyl, a Microsoft economist and researcher, Danielle Allen, a Harvard philosopher and director of the Safra Center for Ethics, and many other industry notables, is sounding...
...When not ensconced at Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Bookstore, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other Beat luminaries would roam or write on Mount Tam’s slopes....
...Glen Cronin has been recruited from Rothschild while David Burlison has been hired from Lazard. Jones Day has hired W. Anders Folk and Kristin Berger Parker as partners in its Minneapolis office....
...I’d quite like to get it over with too, but like Woody Allen’s instincts on dying, while I’m not exactly afraid of it any more, I just don’t want to be there when it happens....
...But its position is not shared by two of its largest active shareholders, T Rowe Price and Dodge & Cox....
...Thug and Nicki Minaj, as Sir Elton does on The Lockdown Sessions, or mouthing stentorian platitudes about every root having branches, as we find the Rocketman doing in the company of country singer Jimmie Allen...
...More discretion and flexibility for oversight will be handed to regulators — although Glen tried to play down the extent of leeway to concerned parliamentarians....
...martin.wolf@ft.com Follow Martin Wolf with myFT Letters in response to this column: Friedman set a standard for judging management / From Patrick J Allen, River Forest, IL, US It’s time to change the...
This judgment restoring parliament’s potency shows the executive cannot dodge scrutiny
...From the front, views over a grassy terrace lead up towards a wooded expanse of oaks, alders, Scots pines and willows through a valley and out towards Glen Isla....
...That’s the verdict from one of my smartest sources, Glen Weyl, an economist and author of Radical Markets, which looks at market-based solutions to big social problems (I’ve previously written in the FT...
...Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, by Anand Giridharadas, Allen Lane, RRP£12.99/Vintage, RRP$16 Can the rich save the world or is their philanthropy an elaborate charade?...
...Kate Allen and Claire Jones have a comprehensive run down of how it works. In practice, the switch would result in only small purchasing shifts from Rome to Berlin....
...More monitoring stations, air-quality apps and public-health alerts are empowering us to dodge the worst pollution....
...The UK is exploring alternative sukuk structures, its City minister John Glen says....
...Currently, only 6 per cent of trips within Paris are made on bikes, which have to dodge aggressive Parisian drivers. Hidalgo wants to raise that to 15 per cent by 2020....
...BoE boss Mark Carney did not dodge the issue....
...His experience there and subsequently at the defence ministry and the Foreign Office is now paying off, however, as spending departments taught him the tricks that ministers use to dodge Treasury strong-arming...
...Corbyn team believes New Labour got far too close to business, allowing companies to foist damaging private finance initiative contracts on the public sector — which Mr McDonnell now wants to unravel — dodge...
...He knows all the tricks that spending departments use to dodge Treasury pleading – he’s probably used them himself, after all – and he doesn’t show any sign of buying into them now he’s on the other side...
...The Department of Justice said that search warrants had been executed on Mr Martin’s house in Glen Burnie, Maryland including two storage sheds and his vehicle....
...He said: “It dodges the issue. There is no question of our dealing with it all ourselves but we should have some share of the responsibility....
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