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...The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard HofstadterWritten in the 1960s, and in part an analysis of the Senator Joseph McCarthy “red-baiting” derangement, this book by the Columbia University historian...
...When Father Joseph Delargy arrived 37 years ago, the monastery near the town of Coalville supported itself with an in-house dairy farm....
...BP has had a tumultuous few months following reports about chief executive Bernard Looney’s undisclosed past relationships with colleagues....
...Jay Powell: Between a new tone in the policy statement, fresh projections indicating a less aggressive path for interest rates and Powell’s own commentary during a press conference, the signals pointed in...
...Nikola Energy appointed Ole Hoefelmann as president on Monday, replacing Joseph Cappello, who started in September....
FT reconstructs the five-month journey that Washington says was used to secretly transport weapons sought by Moscow
...Tuesday China: National People’s Congress annual session for the country’s top legislature opens in Beijing Czech Republic: French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Prague Russia: 71st anniversary of Joseph...
...Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel-prize-winning economist, in November published “A Victory Lap for the Transitory Inflation Team”, which does what the headline promises....
...Powell insisted that the Fed was not even entertaining the idea of when to cut rates....
...We’ll be watching how chair Jay Powell frames the argument in his press conference, where he speaks for the whole committee....
...The fed funds rate, meanwhile, has been made obsolete and left in an “undead state”, as Joseph Wang writes in a new post on his Fed Guy blog....
...A former New York Times reporter, perhaps best known for The Wizard of Lies, her bestselling book about fraudster Bernard Madoff, Henriques has produced a lively tale that pits committed reformers against...
...Personal conduct: BP’s Bernard Looney is the most recent case of how embarrassing revelations about senior leaders can damage trust and cause significant upheaval....
...This sordid affair closed a chapter on Monday, the FT’s Joseph Cotterill and Owen Walker report, after UBS settled with Mozambique....
...William Powell Frith’s 1862 panorama “The Railway Station” depicted a nation going somewhere....
...else I’m keeping tabs on today: US interest rates: The Federal Reserve is expected to maintain its benchmark interest rate at a 22-year high, but investor attention will be on the comments of chair Jay Powell...
...Former policymakers and economists expect the central bank’s chair Jay Powell to emphasise this “higher-for-longer” stance on interest rates during his much-anticipated speech on Friday....
...“This is a point of minimum — rather than maximum — confidence,” as Joseph Gagnon of the Peterson Institute told the FT last week....
...“It’s apparent [that] Africa is closer to Europe and shipping the product to somewhere in Europe would make economic sense, but China has already put a lot of infrastructure in place,” says Bernard Aylward...
...The board included high-profile personalities such as Bernard Cazeneuve, a former prime minister of France, former EU chief diplomat Federica Mogherini and Isabel Santos, a member of the European parliament...
...Fed chair Jay Powell has now shifted the debate towards the timing and magnitude of rate cuts....
...Taking over the space that previously housed The Gilbert Scott, the Midland Grand showcases the talents of chef Patrick Powell, who’s also the chef at the Handelsman-owned Allegra at the Stratford Hotel....
...However sticky US inflation might be, one glance at UK prices sure makes Jay Powell’s job seem easy....
...The main tower, whose most famous resident was another bibulous writer, Jeffrey Bernard, who died there in 1997, remains relatively unchanged....
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