Hints and tips:
...I talked to a support worker at Kingdom Way Trust (KWT) in Eastbourne who had just gone to view a private rental — as potential housing for their clients — near the coastal town: The agent said it was £920...
...Sir Iain Duncan Smith’s advisers blamed officials for the troubled implementation of universal credit....
...And if it is the case, how long should we trust that guarantee for? Is it 10 years? Is that 100 years?...
...You can slice and dice the inflation data, and trust me, I’ll sit here with my PhD in economics and do that all day long....
...The British housing consultant Simon Matthews, author of House in the Country, credits the US think-tank the Brookings Institution with coining it “as a rebranding exercise” about a decade ago for what had...
...And I would also say we worry about discrimination at large scale when AI is used as a tool to allocate credit or decide who is employed, who gets access to education or public benefits....
...While the US has a chronic lack of housing supply, tighter credit conditions should help....
...That feat helped developers Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton win an arcane annual competition called ImageNet....
...We take this very seriously and rightly expect landlords at Peabody Trust to take action to make their homes safe and decent.”...
...New share issues from VCTs come with a 30 per cent income tax credit if the stock is held for at least five years, while dividends and gains are tax-free....
...Sir Geoffrey declined to comment but has said in a statement that his BVI work has been mischaracterised....
...(Nikkei Asia) News round-up Credit Suisse securitises yacht loans to oligarchs and tycoons (FT) US budget airline Frontier to buy rival Spirit for $6.6bn (FT) Landmark Credit Suisse money laundering...
...And I think he deserves some credit for that....
...The IMF said last month that it would create a new trust for up to $50bn in reallocated SDRs....
...To his credit, MacGillis resists the temptation to offer a tidy list of solutions to the complex problems he chronicles, though some of his ideas (unions, anti-trust policy) can be read between the lines...
...“I regret that HSBC is not able to operate your bank and credit card accounts,” Mr Quinn wrote in the email sent to Mr Hui last Monday and seen by the Financial Times....
...Elgin’s Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure, by Geoffrey Robertson, Biteback, £20, 273pp...
...Earlier this month, he abruptly ousted the Manhattan US attorney, Geoffrey Berman, whose office has delved into Mr Trump’s affairs and investigated his associates....
...If it wins, the party is planning to enhance the existing register of trusts to include all UK trusts and to make it accessible to the public....
...The boom in debt issuance by corporate America has been good to S&P Global, the largest credit rating agency. Its shares have jumped a fifth in 2020, far outpacing its namesake S&P 500 index....
...“Nobody understands them, they think that somebody else does — but in the end we trust them. Even the people in charge of these programs have this trust that these things are working.”...
...“Manufacturing sector working hours are declining: you are not seeing the same level of excessive overtime that you used to,” says Geoffrey Crothall, a spokesman for Hong Kong-based charity China Labour...
...So while women could not afford to buy homes, they could afford to build them, slowly, if they had access to credit....
...Investors seeking tax-efficient ways to shelter their investments have also been turning to venture capital trusts (VCTs) in record numbers this tax year....
...speaking, trusts have become increasingly heavily taxed though the tax paid by trusts varies depending on their type....
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