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...martin.wolf@ft.com Follow Martin Wolf with myFT and on X Letters in response to this article: Graceful exits are rarely available to the autocrat / From Peter Slessenger, Reading, Berkshire, UK Singapore...
...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...
...Chief economics commentator Martin Wolf says politics is the biggest threat to China’s economic growth as it grapples with the relationship between communism and capitalism....
...In 1973, with the Roe v....
...Somalia conflict: President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud told the FT he was confident his new military offensive against al-Shabaab would “defeat” the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group....
...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...
...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)....
...The FT editorial board says Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi needs to shrink the role of the state and military-owned companies to address the country’s deepening economic crisis....
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...That prompted a reply from Waller on Friday and a reply-to-the-reply from Summers et al this week titled, “The Fed is wrong: Lower inflation is unlikely without raising unemployment.”...
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...Or, as FT chief economics commentator Martin Wolf put it, Hunt offered no jam today and no jam tomorrow....
...The US Federal Reserve will publish minutes from its November policy meeting at 2pm ET/7pm London....
...Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (Public Affairs) Economists Acemoglu and Johnson make the case that decisions about technology...
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...All assets may perform badly under stagflation, but we’d rather own Pepsi, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Bristol-Myers et al than sit and watch our cash lose its earnings power....
...As Rob Ford, politics professor at the University of Manchester, puts it: “It’s about getting to ‘us v them’ politics, to stimulate ‘Leave’ partisanship.”...
...She says it is back-to-front to depict the Johnson government as running a culture war from the right....
...Former US vice-president Al Gore and financier David Blood are launching a climate change asset manager that will largely focus on private markets....
...Trump et al v....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...By avoiding the distribution of realised capital gains, the average ETF has had a tax burden 0.92 percentage points lower than that of the typical mutual fund over the past five years, Moussawi et al found...
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