Hints and tips:
...In simple terms, the Fed doesn’t need to keep its foot on the brake, so should shift gear and move to idle....
...In this scenario, the cash rate does not stay at today’s elevated levels as central banks, convinced their work is done, start to ease their foot off the brake....
...This is a particularly notable change in Europe where fiscal austerity acted as a meaningful brake on activity for much of the past decade....
...So far, the decision has failed to produce anything close to the levels of market alarm associated with spending brakes in the US....
...The central banks might now have to brake harder. Investors should be very conscious of what this might mean for positions in government bonds....
...She adds: “There’s a scenario where central banks do slam on the brakes rather than easing off the accelerator. That’s not what we’re expecting....
...Person in the news Karen Pierce, the UK’s ambassador to the US, is our person in the news this week....
...Campaign groups welcomed Mr Khan’s plans, which will be developed by the Labour MP Karen Buck and the deputy mayor for housing, James Murray....
...Karen Ward is chief market strategist for the UK and Europe, JPMorgan Asset Management....
...If you are building a team, getting them physically together can help them gel, says business psychologist Karen Moloney. She adds: “Call, Skype and even visit them....
...The going has got so tough in crisis-stricken Europe that women are putting the brakes on buying premium beauty products, in direct contradiction of Leonard Lauder’s “Lipstick Index” that links recession...
...Karen Ward, an economist at HSBC, points to the rise in the number of those aged 16-24 who are neither employed nor in education or training – so-called Neets – who may be out of the workforce for years,...
...Their worry is that, as lending risk increasingly becomes sovereign risk, the burden will act as a brake on the whole economy....
...Former products made from spermaceti oil include candles, plant food, pencils, soap, brake fluid, wood varnish, ink and lipstick. Ambergris, used by parfumiers, is oxidised sperm whale poop....
...I am particularly worried about China in this regard, where higher headline inflation may lead the authorities to slam on the brakes....
...I think most of us thought in terms of a gradual rebalancing as the debts built up and house prices became unaffordable and so on, gradually applying the brakes....
...Karen Ward, HSBC 1) Is the British economy still contracting, at the bottom or is it growing again?...
...Both my wife and I had the brakes on our bikes cut. People would run up to me and take photos on their phone – at one point there was a competition on the group for who could get the best close-up.”...
...Karen Edwards grew up in County Durham, northeast England, but moved to America 26 years ago and married....
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