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...Wong warned last year that aspects of the Washington-Beijing rift appeared “insurmountable” and that tensions over the Taiwan Strait were becoming the region’s “most dangerous flashpoint”....
...Lawrence White is professor of economics at NYU’s Stern School of Business, and was a regulator of the FHLB system in 1986-89....
...Nor did Washington when its own great financial crisis first started more than a decade later....
...MoMA immediately acquired half the panels (the Phillips Collection in Washington took the rest)....
...In one striking anecdote, Scoles interviews Brad Roberts, a senior director at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which oversees the safety and effectiveness of the US nuclear deterrent....
...One milestone was reached in December 2022, when the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US achieved “net energy gain” for the first time by firing the world’s biggest laser at a tiny pellet of...
...Beijing criticised Washington for the controls....
...In the same vein, a new research paper co-authored by Lawrence Summers returns to an old debate by pointing out that higher interest rates are themselves a part of the cost of living....
...An array of US clean energy investments are being delayed or cancelled a year after Washington passed a landmark climate law, threatening to hold back the Biden administration’s emissions targets....
...On this point, the distinguished military historian Sir Lawrence Freedman clearly agrees....
...Being admitted to the Florida fair is a “milestone for the gallery”, says Nick Lawrence, founder of Freight+Volume in New York....
...Singapore, which has good relations with both Beijing and Washington, believes Taiwan has become a “dangerous flashpoint”....
...This week comes one more, from Lawrence Freedman. The economics of war 1: Martin Wolf charts the possible economic consequences of the Israel-Hamas war....
...However, Brussels never likes taking its lead from Washington. So I suspect that the most practical — and ethical — path forward is to take baby steps....
...With that in mind, here’s a new report from the Center for Financial Stability on the topic, authored by an eclectic handful of industry luminaries — Sheila Bair, Joyce Chang, Charles Goodhart, Lawrence...
...Washington narrowly avoided a default projected for June after legislators and the White House reached a deal to raise the federal borrowing limit at the eleventh hour....
...Lawrence Summers, the former US Treasury secretary, and Robert Zoellick, the former World Bank president, have backed the bill, along with Laurence Tribe, the veteran constitutional law professor at Harvard...
...Sullivan is keen to persuade America’s friends that this “new Washington consensus” can work for everyone....
...The Chinese embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment at the time....
...Lawrence Coben, NRG’s chair, has been appointed interim chief executive....
...Melco Resorts & Entertainment and Studio City International Holdings, listed arms of Macau casino tycoon Lawrence Ho, switched from an E&Y office in Hong Kong to one in Singapore....
...For Abraham Orden, a 43-year-old Jewish software executive from the Washington suburbs, the first inkling that the reaction to Hamas’s terror attack in southern Israel might not be what he anticipated came...
...The long-ruling People’s Action party is grappling with only its third change in leadership since independence, with finance minister and deputy prime minister Lawrence Wong — the so-called 4G or fourth...
...Howard Eissenstat, a Turkey specialist at St Lawrence University in New York state and the Middle East Institute in Washington, said: “It’s not a legal process — it’s a political decision on the part of...
...The audience in Washington seemed to appreciate Looney’s candour. The US has generally been a less hostile environment for oil companies in recent years....
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