Hints and tips:
...Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Iran....
...The addition of the “+” countries (Russia, Kazakhstan, Mexico et al) to the cartel have increased its market share....
...But that also applies to other institutions of government, from the Treasury to central bank that were supposed to make sound decisions. They don’t anymore....
...As I’ve said before, the EU’s sanction package is impressive but it’s the US’s control of the dollar payments system that’s enabled it to freeze Russia’s central bank assets and cripple its banks....
...That he probably doesn't have any foreign assets, you know You mean there's not a bank account saying V Putin, the Kremlin. Yeah. But nonetheless, I suppose......
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...That would be “Die Deutsche Bank Filiale Nurnberg v Humphrey”, which says “the exchange rate from the date of domestic judgment should be used”....
...The US withdrawal from the nuclear accord and the reimposition of tough sanctions against the Islamic republic beginning in 2018 have caused Iran’s economy to contract....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...and central banks’ embrace of inflation....
...Iran has been under intense pressure since last year when Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew the US from the accord and imposed crippling sanctions on the Islamic republic....
...The BIS, the central bank for central banks, thinks so, warning that regulators may need to revamp rules for digital platforms....
...“The Islamic republic needs to work with him for years to come,” he said. “But hopefully the end will be [his] martyrdom.”...
...And the central bank payments system would survive any crisis, just as we are told cockroaches will survive a nuclear winter. That removes one central driver of bailouts....
...Saudi officials said the deposit takes the total amount given to the Central Bank of Yemen to $3bn....
...ties with the Islamic republic....
...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....
...“The [Trump] administration change definitely helped,” Khaled al-Abbadi, the Yemeni central bank’s deputy governor for foreign banking operations, told the Financial Times....
...Yet it is partially misleading to see the perennial internecine warfare of the Islamic Republic as simply a struggle between reformists and hardliners....
...Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, champions of a deadly war with Iraq in the 1980s and more recently active in battlefields in Iraq and Syria, have long been big players in the Islamic Republic’s economy...
...The Islamic Republic regards the move as a breach of last year’s nuclear agreement — something that Washington denies....
...Gallery, then home to Bacon, Pollock, Henry Moore et al, as saying, “I don’t collect art, I collect money.”...
...A Basij Cyber Council mobilises “hacktivists” within the Basij — often drawing from Iran’s large pool of young, computer-literate students — to further the Islamic Republic’s message both internally and...
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...that are inconsistent with the real economy and Central Bank designs....
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