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...That was Leo Lewis and Kana Inagaki here in the Tokyo bureau of the FT, joining me for this discussion of Japan....
...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...But it takes short-sighted self-interest to a whole new level for Poland et al to threaten to smash apart the mechanisms of the single market and the EU’s common trade policy because of the short-term impact...
...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its decision on interest rates at 2pm ET/7pm London today. Check back here for details and reaction....
...Canada’s Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec is the latest large investor to put the brakes on Chinese deals, DD’s Will Louch and Ivan Levingston report....
...Shares in other banks considered to have some degree of asset-liability mismatch (Western Alliance, Zions et al) only saw their shares wobble a little bit yesterday....
...It just looks a little different.” — William Lewis...
...The deal drama offers a rare glimpse into the chilling effect that regulators in the Biden administration are having on dealmaking....
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...Need to know: business Vaccine makers have lost billions in market value after Biden declared “the pandemic is over” on Sunday night....
...al) wouldn’t bring globalisation to a halt....
...But there’s something else he said that day that probably does more to explain the endurance of Benzema et al today....
...Leo Lewis is quickly becoming one of my favourite colleague columnists — his take on Marxism for the modern age is a must read....
...“Justice Thomas was the sole member of the Supreme Court who would have allowed records from Trump, Meadows, et al to be withheld from House Jan 6 Committee,” Kaine said on Twitter....
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...But dumping the cynical first-person narration that distinguished The Big Sleep et al may not have been a prudent move....
...Biden has also continued to give billions in military aid with only minimal conditions attached to Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s dictatorial regime in Egypt....
...Despairing of a strong US presence, America’s allies in the region (Japan, Australia, New Zealand et al) will agonise about how much they can slow-walk China’s application to join the CPTPP....
...You can understand why the US et al would make a big fuss about Russia avoiding its sanctions by flogging knockdown oil to India or cheap gas to China — though I would note in passing that Russia’s imperialist...
...The Syria operation was launched after it became clear that the Obama administration would not intervene to topple Bashar al-Assad....
...The alliance this summer affirmed cyber incidents could trigger its mutual defence clause under Article V....
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...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...Trump et al v....
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