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...In the swing state of Michigan, 100,000 Democrats voted “uncommitted” in the party’s recent primary as a protest against US support for Israel....
...“There were a whole series of positive supply shocks through the 1990s and 2000s, for example the fall of the Iron Curtain, the integration of eastern Europe, China’s entry into the WTO, and so on,” he says...
...[MUSIC PLAYING] The International Monetary Fund is warning that soaring wages in eastern Europe could actually hurt the region....
...EU regulators meanwhile are looking into the links between banks and other financial firms, such as hedge funds....
...Two giant steel mills sit less than 10 miles apart on the shores of Lake Michigan, the blast furnaces inside reaching temperatures of up to 3,000 degrees to smelt glowing iron ore....
...We admired a dust-covered, flat-tyred Toyota Land Cruiser that the king had been given by Sudan’s president in 2010 but never used for lack of roads, and the ancient iron pegs to which the villagers tethered...
...He has sold work before, mostly to fund his art-buying habit and now, he says, he has “reached a certain age” when it is time to let go of other works....
...its treatment of workers ahead of the tournament....
...However, the policy has led to problems with flying in skilled workers from eastern states because of travel restrictions, hampering some projects....
...by their Russian workers and customers....
...Another sign of change is that Amazon workers in Staten Island, a few miles from the FT office, have become the first Amazon warehouse in the country to unionise....
...separatist-held territories in eastern Ukraine....
...“Our gas payments help fund this war.” His grandmother argued he had no experience of suffering, as she did....
...US Senate hearings Lisa Cook, a professor of economics at Michigan State University, Philip Jefferson, a former research economist for the Fed’s board, and Sarah Bloom Raskin, a former deputy secretary of...
...The city in Michigan has the lowest cost of living of 265 US urban centres, according to survey data....
...the optimism that accompanied the fall of the Iron Curtain....
...Workers carrying out construction and (in some cases) repairs have to be paid “prevailing wages”. A certain proportion of the work will also have to be carried out by apprentices....
...And that's what it funds. It doesn't fund shareholder profits. It funds the buildout of these technologies. And we want to take these technologies to scale....
...“Conduct by these corrupt and criminal individuals has scarred the UAW,” said Matthew Schneider, US attorney for Michigan’s eastern district....
...Iron ore is down 10 per cent from its recent record high of $233 a tonne in May as Beijing has moved to cool runaway prices....
...(FT) Coronavirus digest Michigan’s health department confirmed its first case of the P.1 variant of Covid-19....
...Reed Galen, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, said his group would be putting pressure on companies in Michigan, Texas and other states drafting election legislation similar to Georgia’s law....
...As Mr Lukashenko, who has ruled the eastern European nation with an iron fist for 26 years, tried to address a crowd of workers at the state-owned plant, he was met with derisive boos and whistles, and shouted...
...“This is the biggest challenge Lukashenko has ever faced,” says Joerg Forbrig, director for central and eastern Europe at the German Marshall Fund of the US, a think-tank....
...and mutual funds....
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