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...The results for the first time show the financial scale of what has been described by Washington as a “transnational criminal organisation”....
...(Washington Post)...
...Palmer Hayden, another southerner by birth, made his way to Greenwich Village via Washington, the circus, the army and the Philippines, before decamping for a five-year stint in Paris....
...They found that the standout stocks today are at much cheaper valuations than the stars of the 90s were, and while the valuations of the Magnificent 7 et al do look a lot like the “Nifties,” they tend to...
...Johnson at 10: The Inside Story by Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell (Atlantic Books) A detailed and damning account of Boris Johnson’s rise to power and period as prime minister....
...Washington intended to conclude a crucial part of its Indo-Pacific Economic Framework trade pillar at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum this week....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...The US’s Ain al-Asad base in western Iraq was targeted by rockets earlier this week as well as the Al Tanf garrison in Syria....
...The contract was first reported by the Washington Post....
...Columnist Edward Luce praises US president Joe Biden for soothing tensions between Washington and Beijing....
...US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Washington was pressing Israel “to make sure to distinguish between Hamas and the Palestinian people”....
...Someone hoping not to be yesterday’s man, and in with a decent chance of fulfilling this wish is Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi....
...RedBird IMI is 75 per cent owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan’s International Media Investments despite being run by Zucker....
...We had major assassinations, cities on fire, two failed presidencies [Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon].”...
...(New Yorker) — Erik Brynjolfsson et al paper on using generative AI in customer support (NBER)...
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...As out of favour as the Washington consensus has become, not least in Washington, it is at least an identifiable programme. What is the Brics or global south alternative?...
...Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of the PIF, will be chair and the fund will retain right of first refusal for any future capital investments in the company....
...The two senators have invited tour commissioner Jay Monahan, PIF governor Yasir al-Rumayyan and LIV chief executive Greg Norman to testify on Capitol Hill next month....
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Isn’t it high time the regulators increased oversight on Blackstone and Apollo, et al, as this relatively new and powerful group of financial titans continue their march to the top of the heap on Wall Street...
...Minutes from the Fed’s last policy meeting are due at 2pm ET/7pm London time today and should reveal the reasoning behind the further quarter-point rise earlier this month....
...The point is to be a convening place that can contribute by offering “le gîte et le couvert” — “a place to eat and a place to sleep” — she added....
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...Need to know: Business US investment in Chinese stocks has taken a hit as political tensions grow between Washington and Beijing....
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