Hints and tips:
...The European Central Bank agrees, according to Benoît Cœuré, a member of its executive board....
...Half a century ago, in 1968, Kenneth Clark was in Paris, standing in front of the BBC cameras, asking, “What is civilisation?...
...The Nest, by Kenneth Oppel, David Fickling, RRP£10.99, 256 pages...
...DeLong has now taken a deep dive into Harvard professor and former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff’s diagnoses of the disappointing post-crisis recovery, which doubles as a succinct typology of the four...
.../ From Theo Vermaelen...
...There’s more to capitalism than the shortterm / From Prof Theo Vermaelen Am I my brother’s keeper? / From Mr Kenneth Armitage...
...“The only thing I haven’t heard so far is that FTT is going to speed up global warming and kill baby seals,” adds Benoît Lallemand at Finance Watch, the Brussels-based public interest lobby....
...Equally intellectually endowed cassandras, such as Nassim Nicholas Taleb, warned that the models failed to account for sudden price swings that change everything, as had the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot...
...He cites Francesco Rosi’s Carmen or Benoît Jacquot’s Tosca or Franco Zeffirelli’s Otello....
...“I decided her bridge should be enormous and billowing,” Vincent writes to brother Theo, “with wild, explosive teeth flaring up in every direction like fire!...
...In 1945 John Kenneth Galbraith saw the defeat of the Third Reich as the “conclusive testimony to the inherent inefficiencies of dictatorship and the inherent efficiencies of freedom”....
..."No minister has been so consistently wrong in his predictions," says Theo Waigel, finance minister under Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schröder's predecessor as German chancellor....
...Reporting by Andrew Balls, Demetri Sevastopulo and Edward Alden in Washing ton, Bertrand Benoit in Ber lin, John Thornhill in Paris, David Pilling in Tokyo, Shawn Donnan in Jakarta, Dan Dombey in Brussels...
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