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...by Jonathan Kanter, head of the US Department of Justice’s antitrust unit, over its dominance in digital advertising and a challenge to Amazon by Khan and the FTC will serve as further tests for Biden’s progressive...
...However, those LPs have little genuine influence, given the wall of return-hungry money clamouring for access to the best private equity funds....
...The event provoked a furious backlash among progressives, who accused the developer and his friends of giving succour to a president they believed was encouraging racism. “I’m not a Trump supporter....
...But executives in the Democratic camp may not enjoy the same proximity to the Oval Office as certain financiers do in the current administration as the party’s progressive wing pushes for separation of finance...
...Often the conversations circle back to the limited partners, or LPs — university endowments, pension funds and wealthy individuals — that invest in the venture capital funds which in turn invest billions...
...Geller & Co is run by Mr Bloomberg’s longtime accountant and financial adviser Martin Geller, who sits on the board of Bloomberg LP, Mr Bloomberg’s eponymous financial data company....
...“The tax system in the US is extremely progressive . . . it’s a reverse pyramid. The top 10 per cent pays 70 per cent [of the tax take]. The top 1 per cent pays 38 to 40....
...Allegations have resurfaced about a testosterone-fuelled and sexist office culture at Bloomberg LP....
...It remains unclear what the full implications of Mr Bloomberg’s candidacy will be for Bloomberg LP, his eponymous financial information company....
...Mr Biden remains ahead in national polls, followed by Elizabeth Warren and her fellow progressive senator Bernie Sanders....
...Mr Bloomberg’s early leadership on gun control and climate change, Mr Sheinkopf argued, should persuade progressives of his bona fides....
...He spent most of his childhood in Columbia, Maryland, a racially integrated new town planned on progressive lines. “It was avowedly experimental,” Chabon says....
...The company’s progressive dividend policy sets out that the full-year dividend, in US dollar terms, doesn’t go backwards....
...Mr Sanders and his progressive allies, however, are not alone in fretting that some banks are still dangerously large....
...“Hills” reported an interim net loss of $5.7bn yesterday and, as many expected, slashed its dividend by 74 per cent and scrapped its progressive dividend policy....
...So he created his own Progressive Party, commonly known as the Bull Moose Party, and put himself on the top of the ticket....
...As mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg was a leading player on the global stage, a fiscally prudent, socially progressive voice with the clout that comes from being elected leader of the self-proclaimed...
...Given that China borrows from itself and runs a CA surplus, a progressive ossification of the economy and financial system is still a more likely outcome than the sharp sudden crisis so often seen in EM,...
...He tried to capitalise on the resurgent economy to win support for his progressive policies, but Republicans were quick to remind Americans that many of them are yet to feel the benefits of an economic recovery...
...Related reading: Venezuela’s progressive conscience, The Economist Fears grow of Venezuela media crackdown after protest killings, FT Fears for Venezuela press freedom as critic is silenced, FT...
...Unless the ECB is able to alter this perception drastically in the near future, the progressive “Japanification” of the euro area could become hard to reverse....
...First of all, investors are more confident that the progressive structural reforms are filtering into the real economy....
...Chidambaram said on Thursday: Recent incidents have cast a long, dark shadow on our liberal and progressive credentials....
...It’s progressive (“progressive” as in “not regressive”, not as in “only Democrats like it”). And it simplifies the tax code while avoiding the difficult fights to eliminate one deduction or another....
...- Felix, in praise of the “tinkering” of progressive income taxes. - Matt Levine on why shadow banking makes regular banking “sound like… Disneyland in Baudrillard....
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