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...Now, it warrants perpetual rent-harvesting on so-called “properties” — from a rendition of “Happy Birthday to You” to an image of Humphrey Bogart’s raincoat in Casablanca — by litigious and parasitic corporations...
...Meanwhile, the pandemic virtually halted Japan’s homebuilding industry and lumber imports, but the country last year used up (Nikkei, $) a 48-year high of domestic lumber to burn for energy....
...A sharp increase in lumber prices has hurt home builders and DIY retailers, while clothing chains such as TJX have warned that driver shortages might keep freight costs “stubbornly high” all year....
...Gordon Bowers, a local lumber grader who has long supported the senator, has started having doubts....
...That’s debatable,” said Humphrey Knight of consultants CRU, citing the large amount of capacity sitting idle in Canada....
...But now governments and corporations worldwide are pushing to expand its use in bigger public buildings, homes and offices....
...In just one year, iron ore prices jumped 78 per cent and the benchmark price of lumber tripled. Prices of other metals such as nickel and aluminium have also risen....
...In reality, central bankers must be equally scared of scenarios that lumber them with such responsibility....
...First, there are a lot of banks in America (4,987 are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)....
...Prices for everything from lumber, cars and homes are hitting record highs. Treasury yields are also back to pre-crisis levels....
...But Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, which is preparing for an offering on Shanghai’s new Star market, is China’s best bet at reducing its dependence on foreign-made chips, write Yuan...
...The debt of US corporations has risen to pre-crisis levels of $9.4tn, or 46 per cent of domestic output, and former Fed chair Janet Yellen has voiced alarm that lending standards have loosened as memories...
...There is one thing that exists beyond the Corporation’s charter but this is why we fight for the soul of it....
...state, Washington, DC, June 2 1976; A Philip Randolph, founder, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, New York, April 8 1976; Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia, Miami, Florida, March 5 1976; Hubert Humphrey...
...That was the year Democrats nominated Hubert Humphrey, the vice-president and pillar of the establishment. He was also defeated by Nixon. In Reich’s view, Biden is the new Humphrey....
...That is a “warning sign that it may be rushing projects to approval without sufficient preparation”, said Chris Humphrey, a development finance researcher at the Overseas Development Institute in London....
...Marks and Spencer’s turnround plan suffered a fresh blow after the UK retailer confirmed that its chief financial officer, Humphrey Singer, was stepping down after little more than a year. More here....
...“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....
...RBC Capital Markets and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz advised BB&T, while Goldman Sachs, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and Sullivan & Cromwell advised SunTrust....
...Wilson, who will be based in New York, was previously a managing director at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey....
...Share prices for the two largest Canadian lumber corporations, Canfor Corporation and West Fraser Timber Co Ltd, and Weyerhaeuser Co, the largest US producer, have all hit record highs this month....
...Donald Trump kicked off the process of imposing tariffs on a further $200bn of imports from China, as the trade war between the two economic powers rapidly escalated, posing a challenge to US corporations...
...Or Peter Humphrey, the private investigator who was locked up for nearly two years on what many viewed as unjust grounds. The situation at UBS appears far less serious....
...Here's what it looks like graphically: “In volumetric terms, Sirius is pretty bold”, said Humphrey Knight, potash analyst for CRU, “its going to be a bit of a challenge for them”....
...The Irish economy, home to the European headquarters of many of the major multinational IT and pharmaceutical corporations, became a poster child for globalization....
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