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...“We expect to see growth slowing globally with the US well positioned to withstand a run-of-the-mill recession should one materialise.”...
...Magnus Mills continued to drive buses after becoming a successful novelist, but the staple writer day-jobs are in journalism, publishing and academia....
...“But the PIF is increasingly also getting involved in run-of-the-mill private sector activities.”...
...He in effect now runs a mining multinational that includes, according to the US government, gold, diamonds, oil and lumber operations across Syria, Sudan and the Central African Republic....
...East Hampton’s private jet problem Conflict between Long Islanders and summer visitors in the lush Hamptons enclaves is a tale older than Gatsby, the FT’s Madison Darbyshire writes....
...A lot of it came from here (data from Ed Mills at Raymond James): Government spending, and in particular debt-financed government spending, has gone bananas since the start of the pandemic....
...US steelmakers argue the rally is part of a broader boom driving up prices for products including lumber, semiconductors and farm products, not Trump’s tariffs....
...(Washington Post) Conservative crypto Most players in the bitcoin boom have a healthy appetite for risk....
...It has been on extended loan to major museums including the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York....
...Brunswick Group has appointed former US International Development Finance Corporation communications chief Molly Millerwise Meiners as a partner in its Washington, DC office....
...Or when I lived, briefly, in Washington DC, in 2009....
...charged that Kraft Foods, which later became Mondelez and Kraft Heinz, bought “huge” amounts of Chicago-listed wheat futures, pushing down the relative price of physical wheat that supplied a company flour mill...
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on December 5 2019. @2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“Textiles, paper mills, lumber mills, all these places in southern and eastern Arkansas,” said Mervin Jebaraj, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas....
...(FT) ‘Do I quarantine in the Hamptons?’ Forget homeworking. New York’s wealthy are talking about installing domestic intensive care units, others are chartering private jets to avoid crowded airports....
...His old friends the Clintons spent a lot of their summers in the Hamptons with the same old crowds of hedge-fund titans and media moguls....
...Working their way through the US trade system are moves against aluminium imports, Canadian aircraft and lumber, and Chinese solar cell and panel producers, among others....
...General Mills last month partly blamed rising transport costs for 625 redundancies it will make this year....
...China’s Ministry of Commerce responded on Wednesday that Beijing was “shocked” by Washington’s moves....
...“What do I want from Washington? I want help with my capital investment,” says Winthrop....
...Mr Miller said NLMK supported a tariff on finished steel products, especially from countries such as China that “cheat the system”, but had also been lobbying in Washington....
...The US commerce secretary was in Paris, so he had to pick up a phone at the OECD and call reporters back in Washington to announce his action....
...Further deals are likely to come, agreed Ed Mills, Washington-based analyst at Raymond James, as the roll back of some Dodd-Frank reforms lifts banks’ “animal spirits”....
...Canada is taking the US to the World Trade Organization over what it says are illegal flaws in its trade enforcement system, ratcheting up a bitter fight with the Trump administration by targeting one of Washington...
...“A lot of executives used to see government as an alien world, a place they didn’t understand and one that didn’t understand them,” says Henrietta Fore, a director of ExxonMobil and foodmaker General Mills...
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