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...The scale of the Biden plan would add about 1 percentage point to global economic growth in 2021, Laurence Boone, the OECD’s chief economist, told the Financial Times....
...“Gordon Gekko once said ‘greed is good’,” says one adviser to shale operators. “In the oil patch that means ‘growth is good’.”...
...But what if the outbreak lasts more than one quarter, asks Laurence Boone, chief economist at the OECD. Read more in the FT Series: Coronavirus: the economic cure....
...Boone Pickens dies at 91 T. Boone Pickens, the Texas oil tycoon who was among the most feared dealmakers of his day, has died at the age of 91....
...(FT) EU’s economic preparedness Europe faces a “crying need” to loosen the public purse strings to stimulate growth, the OECD’s chief economist Laurence Boone has warned, telling the FT there is “a big...
...The value of outstanding subscription-line loans are about $400bn, according to Tim Powers, managing partner at Haynes and Boone, the US law firm....
...James Nixon, Chief European Economist, Oxford Economics Introduce a Gordon Brown type fiscal rule and exempt capital spending from the S & GP; invest in education, R&D and infrastructure....
...Boone Pickens, “as smooth as a stucco bathtub”, but his returns speak for themselves....
...“Shareholders should be tickled to death when he shows up,” says T Boone Pickens, another veteran corporate raider and a friend of Mr Icahn....
...still bump into crinkly gentlemen with gummed-up hair and braces – a bizarre case of life imitating art imitating life (Gekko’s look was itself inspired by that of 1980s financiers such as Carl Icahn and T Boone...
...Jon Boone is the FT’s Afghanistan correspondent....
...yardstick measuring the value of crude oil has become warped. says Ed Morse, managing director and chief economist at LCM Commodities in New York To save the banks we must stand up to the bankers Peter Boone...
...Pressure on for troop surge Gordon Brown has been warned by senior British officials that the next US president might put significant pressure on the UK to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan...
...first learned the art of public administration under Afghanistan’s former Soviet-backed regime, has been sweeping out corrupt and ineffectual officials since his appointment in March and was praised by Gordon...
...Laurence Boone, a Paris-based economist at Barclays Capital, argued that large European countries fall into two camps....
...Ambitious plans to add an extra 40,000 troops to the Afghan army will not be enough to meet Afghanistan’s security needs, Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, warned on Thursday....
...Gordon Johndroe, a White House spokesman, said the report of so many deaths should be treated sceptically. “Often the Taliban and extremist groups are very quick to get out there....
...Separately, Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, yesterday held talks with Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, in London that primarily focused on Afghanistan, amid simmering tensions among Nato states...
...Last month Gordon Brown, British prime minister, said the UK, which has responsibility for the southern province of Helmand, would increase its support for “community defence initiatives, where local volunteers...
...Gordon Brown on Monday praised British troops after they mounted one of their biggest single assaults in years, helping to clear Taliban fighters from their largest stronghold in Afghanistan....
...It said British policy towards Afghanistan had been set out to parliament this month by Gordon Brown, the prime minister, when he said that the UK was committed to “isolating and eliminating” the Taliban...
...In the UK, a review of Afghan strategy has followed Gordon Brown’s takeover as prime minister from Tony Blair in June....
...“I think there is every sign that they will work together, considering the focus and leadership Gordon Brown has already invested in skills and further education,” said Sir Andrew Foster, author of a government...
...Lord Ashdown has previously called for a strong international figure to be put in charge of efforts in Afghanistan, and he was reportedly offered such a job in July by Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister...
...It is the latest in a series of conciliatory gestures instigated by Gordon Brown since he became prime minister last month....
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