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...They join conference panels also adorned by Tony Blair and Al Gore. Nemesis A proportion of the businesses crash and burn amid fraud accusations....
...But there are also complaints about insecurity and social and economic grievances....
...Slovakia’s prime minister said he was ready to stand down to defuse a crisis over his decision to purchase Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, which has not been approved by Europe’s regulator....
...This is the latest article in our series: The new social contract....
...(FT) Munich Security Conference kicks off The annual event is regarded as the Davos for the world’s security and foreign policy elite....
...Unlike Sondland et al, they did not buy their positions. Nor will most of them be able to monetise their experience when they leave government....
...George W Bush missed red flags in the build-up to al-Qaeda’s Twin Towers attacks. But he was only once explicitly warned of a possible plot a few weeks before it happened....
...But Khaldoon al-Mubarak, a rising star in Abu Dhabi’s power structure, has transformed the club into a slick, trophy-winning powerhouse....
...top of the administration in Khartoum, as Sudan’s military tightens its grip on a faltering transition....
...I guess it will need an increased ESG focus on Russia and sanctions, or a more active move by the US Treasury et al to question Russian index inclusion and bring a more fundamental re-assessment of Russian...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...More and more Americans, meanwhile, view FB et al etc as the new Big Tobacco....
...Jeffrey Ball in Fortune had a great piece on Royal Dutch Shell’s attempt to remake itself for a world of low oil prices....
...al....
...Jeffrey Tate, a 49-year-old painter and decorator buying supplies near the mosque, gives the president similarly high marks....
...A lot with low probability (5%), in case there is a change in international security and order. Martin Ellison, professor of economics, University of Oxford It’s going to be a rocky ride....
...And as long as the emphasis in social security administration is on “security,” incentives to develop an accurate picture of employment will remain weak....
...One friend, talking about McBride et al blaming him for election-that-never-was....
...Summers et al adjusted for this and still found that the government’s borrowing added a lot more supply to the market than the Fed brought onto its balance sheet....
...A report by the special inspector-general for Iraq construction quoted a senior Iraqi official, Adnan al-Asadi, complaining that most of the funds went on lodging and security....
...While I have little time for Cameron et al, I have to admit that Osborne has done a brilliant job of (just about) keeping the markets onside....
...Contrast this with two years ago, when Summers, Geithner, Romer, Volcker, Orszag et al were all jostling for position....
...They talk of “security of demand” for their oil and gas exports, on which they depend to generate economic growth and a very large share of government revenues—and to maintain social stability....
...al at a national level....
...“A rally past the first week of May would force us to reconsider this view, as it would suggest a ‘V’ bottom is more likely.”...
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