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...This is Fortunato Martinengo, who founded Brescia’s Accademia del Dubbiosi (Academy of Doubters)— to debate humanist ideas....
...I used to class it as one of the hybrid musk roses which the Anglican clergyman and rosarian Joseph Pemberton bred in his parish in the 1920s....
...“I always look forward to going back to Alcova, because I have a sense of freedom, of creative freedom,” Petaloti says....
...But the other thing I realised was the patchy regulation. A sobering paper on Wednesday by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reported the rapid growth of the rental sector in the past two decades....
...The R1T explodes — and I mean explodes — down the pavement. We go from zero to well above 60 miles per hour in what seems like an instant. The G force feels tremendous. It’s too much raw power for me....
...Lena Komileva, chief economist at G+ Economics: With the weakest productivity per capita, combined with the highest structural inflation problem among major economies, the UK economy is clearly a laggard...
...“I always say to people who find the taste too strong, try using it more like cocktail bitters, or add a splash to a G&T, and see what a difference it makes....
...Abbott, incidentally, had once replied to a question about her sexuality by saying “I am a photographer, not a lesbian.”...
...One good read On the Fed Guy blog, Joseph Wang has a nice accounting explanation of how the Federal Reserve’s reverse repo operations work, an important topic when liquidity is on everyone’s mind....
...“If I pay [bonds], the moment I pay, the other creditors are going to put dynamite under my legs and blow off my legs. I’m gone....
...Dave Innes, Head of Economics Joseph Rowntree Foundation: As with 2021, the virus will be the main decider of economic growth....
...Personally, I feel torn — and so, I suspect, do many FT readers. When Covid-19 first struck, the events were so shocking it was easy to think that government intervention made sense....
...Only two common words in English end G-R-Y. Can you name them both? What’s the English word for what Americans call a ‘sidewalk’?...
...“I believe the whistleblower is operating in good faith,” he told the committee....
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...Noting markets down c20%+ ytd (e.g....
...ShareAction has co-filed a resolution, alongside managers including Aviva Investors and M&G Investments, for BP’s AGM in May....
...I see reason to apply a clear differentiation,” he said. G-SIBS face the highest capital and liquidity requirements because of their critical role in the world financial system....
...rana.foroohar@ft.com Letter in response to this column: The importance of making accurate comparisons / From James G Bridgeman, Quaker Hill, CT, US...
...Major tech platforms have, according to Ms Petrou, “become so embedded in everyday life . . . that I think they flunk the substitutability test”....
...Mr Peltz will be added to P&G’s board on March 1, along with Joseph Jimenez, chief executive of the drugmaker Novartis....
...since I started collecting, over a decade ago)....
...The reason (as I have described it elsewhere) comes down to using a “well-behaved” model to capture economies that can be ill-behaved....
...“I have nothing specific to go on [to suggest] that he understands monetary economics,” said Joseph Gagnon, an ex-Fed official who is now at the Peterson Institute for International Economics....
...“The goal is the same, making money,” says Joseph Perella, the co-founder of Perella Weinberg Partners, the New York investment bank....
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