Hints and tips:
...Buonanno et al conclude from a study of their tax returns that purging City Hall of mobsters results in “a significant and sizeable increase of social capital” over the long term....
...Diplomats say western capitals are still deciding how to approach Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, with some pondering quiet no-contact policies....
...Whatever you might think of Robinhood et al, retail investors do appear to value their services. You can’t ignore the regulatory politics either....
...Because you're trying to sell everyone on the notion that Ukraine and Russia are one people. We're brothers. We don't want to harm you, we're liberating you....
...Event numbers grew from only 51 in 2014 to 1,828 in 2019, according to the Chinese Athletics Association, overtaking the US as the largest national market for races....
...The EY audited results cast interesting light on one part of Burford’s “capital provision assets”, which are its claims on YPF, the Argentine national oil company, and by extension the Argentine Republic...
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...The killing last week of one of al-Qaeda’s top commanders in Africa was celebrated by France as a significant victory in its war on terrorism in the Sahel....
...The initiative from New Zealand et al has not reached critical mass: the big trading economies have not signed on....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...It remains, for example, one other way in which it would be possible to finance a proper national or “green” investment bank — which could be significant given the UK’s infrastructure and low carbon transition...
...“There has been a long history of this litigation that has not been successful, and for good reason,” said Phil Goldberg, special counsel at the National Association of Manufacturers, a lobby group in DC...
...(FT) NRA v San Francisco The National Rifle Association sued San Francisco on Monday over the city’s recent declaration that the gun-rights lobby was a “domestic terrorist organisation.”...
...The first arrivals — men from enemy nations such as Germany, Austria, Hungary and Turkey deemed to be a threat to national security — were held at Cunningham’s Holiday Camp in the capital Douglas, but poor...
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...Several US energy companies are represented in the business delegation, including Freepoint Commodities, which is working on a deal with Sinopec and ArcLight Capital Partners to bring more crude oil from...
...“Patent values are plummeting, and licensing and capital investments in many technologies are sinking. The AIA has done more harm than good.”...
...But it is not an insignificant one either....
...International competition for capital has intensified....
...A new association agreement will be difficult and is likely to be negotiated separately from the withdrawal treaty under Article 50....
...Rebecca Harding, chief economist, British Bankers’ Association I expect economic growth to slow by around 1% in 2017....
...A proper review of national insolvency frameworks to make them consistent across Europe....
...Most were driven into exile for their association with the Islamists....
...“Ukraine governments have spent 20-plus years seeking outside dollars from the IMF, EU, China, et al, without making serious reforms,” he said. “This time, Russia ponied up.”...
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
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