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...The political scientists Jonathan K Hanson and Rachel Sigman have measured state capacity by combining indicators such as the ability to raise complex taxes and the availability of good statistics....
...There is now a “K-shaped” pattern in consumer spending, he said....
...Mark Gregory and Vicky Jarman are stepping down from the board of UK gambling group Entain....
...We are comprehensively following the money from K Street to Main Street, from Washington to each state capital....
...One of them, Tucker Carlson, called the climate change threat a liberal invention. [MUSIC PLAYING] You can read more on all of these stories at FT.com. This has been your daily FT News Briefing....
...Tucker Perkins, chief executive of the Propane Education & Research Council, argued that propane heaters were more efficient than electric heaters powered by fossil fuel-fired generation....
...Most healthcare is already geared towards postponing death, points out John K Davis, a philosopher at California State University and author of New Methusalahs: The Ethics of Life Extension....
...Eventually, Ms Taylor had to raid her defined contribution pension scheme, known as a 401(k)....
...FT) Telia sells off world’s biggest telecoms carrier business (FT) Singapore’s GIC Plans to Invest More Than $1 Billion in Ant (BBG) Macy’s takes stake in Klarna as part of payment partnership (FT) K+...
...K&L Gates has hired Sook Young Yeu, Scott Peterman, and William Ho as partners in the law firm’s Hong Kong integrated funds and private equity practices....
...Lombard Mark Tucker’s HSBC is turning from teaser of bankers to teased bank. Jean Pierre Mustier walked away from the bank’s slow CEO search....
...For Jeff Tucker, an economist at Zillow, the reason the islands have become so expensive is obvious. “It’s a beautiful island paradise with few places where you can build,” he says....
...Jeff Tucker, an economist at Zillow, the online property database, says that 41 per cent of the 302 properties for sale in Malibu at the start of May were empty lots — an unusually high percentage for an...
...One of them, argues Jeff Tucker, a Zillow economist, is the lack of available space for new construction....
...Had Sleater-Kinney eschewed scrappily melodic punk rock in favour of tightly choreographed K-pop? Was this to be a sonic cataclysm that would rewrite pop history? No, of course not....
...And: I was on the fence about voting for him again, but no f**k that he's a f**king moron....
...“K-shaped” recovery anyone? For more on this, check out my “Confessions of an economic forecaster"....
...The realisation that a complex work could be adapted at length and to acclaim encouraged other estates to open up and paved the way for series such as Amazon’s recent streaming adaptation of Philip K Dick...
...All I could think was, how the f**k am I going to get back to Scotland? I had no money at all....
...private almond processors are in the process of converting their status to co-operatives to compete with big cooperatively owned processors such as Blue Diamond Growers, said Jeff Tatsumura, principal at K-Coe...
...Samuel Tombs: If GDP growth recovers in the first half of 2020 — both in the U.K. and abroad — then the governor should steer the monetary policy committee [MPC] to raise the Bank Rate while the going is...
...Mark Gregory, Chief Economist UK, EY A couple of points either side of around 1.5 per cent, slower than the major developed economies by around 0.5 per cent....
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...Gary Gorton and K Geert Rouwenhorst, of Yale University, have authored a new paper arguing that their custom-built commodity index offered the same returns as equities without moving in tandem with stocks...
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