Hints and tips:
...(Foreign Policy) Fossil fuel companies are spending millions on Google ads that look like search results. (The Guardian)...
...In Rana’s view, the dollar’s days as a reserve currency are numbered and the S&P 500 stocks looks wildly overpriced....
...(WaPo) Gillette #MeToo razors ad on ‘toxic masculinity’ gets praise — and abuse (Guardian) What really happened to Malaysia’s missing airplane (Atlantic) What happens when an economist walks into a brothel...
...Unit 180’s primary job is to gain foreign currency to fund projects to develop weapons....
...Separately, here are some tips for taming your wild, ad-driven Facebook news feed....
...As most economists will repeat ad nauseam, tough reforms are most politically palatable in good economic times....
...Finally, good news for bean counters as Ben Affleck’s thriller, The Accountant, leads weekend box office takings....
...It’s “the online equivalent of the little alleyway that has all those independent shops,” Tucker told The Guardian. 49....
...“The hong-er-dai didn’t take advantage and [maintained] a revolutionary quality,” he says....
...(Guardian) Interdealer broker ICAP closes in on settlement over Libor claims: ICAP – which acts as a conduit for trades in the market – was in talks to settle for a sum that could total less than £100m,...
...From The Sunday Times, - Barclays board weighs break-up: The storm over Libor fixing has prompted directors to examine a New York spin-off of the investment banking arm - Bolland on rack as M&S...
...And now yet again, the always impoverished World Service – its funding dumped from the Foreign Office on to the licence-payer – is in the firing line....
...The FT invariably picked up this business, with many full-page ads devoted to each offering....
...We are witnessing “the dawn of a blogosphere dominant media”, announced Michael S. Malone, who has been described as “the Boswell of Silicon Valley”....
...The Guardian’s web story on the release, probably appropriately, occasionally featured a pop-up ad for Persil, with a splodge marked with the catchphrase “It’s not dirt…”....
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