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...According to V-Dem, a Swedish research institute, almost three quarters of the world’s population now live in autocracies against less than half a decade ago....
...This week, the base, which is the headquarters of the US Army’s V Corps, was renamed Camp Kościuszko after the Polish revolutionary who crossed the Atlantic to fight the British (gee, thanks Thaddeus)....
...John V Baldwin Cernobbio, Italy...
...edward.luce@ft.com Letter in response to this column: The west is right to call China’s bluff on Taiwan / From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...And let’s not overlook the backlash to the Supreme Court rule, the Dobbs ruling on scrapping Roe v Wade....
...Edward Luce I mean, that’s a very important question....
...The plinth has been empty since King George V’s bust was removed in the 1960s. Some wanted to erect Mohandas Gandhi’s statue there....
...As the most important potential bulwark against China, for example, India, which Sweden’s V-Dem, a research institute that measures levels of democracy, recently downgraded to an “electoral autocracy”, could...
...The 9/11 attacks marked the only time Nato has invoked its Article V mutual defence clause — following an assault on America, not Europe....
...America’s much-promised V-shaped recovery floundered on the failure to flatten the coronavirus curve....
...edward.luce@ft.com...
...Meanwhile, as the Paycheck Protection Program ends and the country begins to realise that the recovery won’t be anywhere near V-shaped (see my Monday column for more on that), working class white women motivated...
...Edward Luce responds Rana, a US-China clash over Taiwan ought to rank as the number one geopolitical risk in the world — by quite a long way....
...After half a century in which capital has been in the driving seat, Joe Biden has a chance to tilt the advantage back to labour, writes Edward Luce....
...edward.luce@ft.com Follow Edward Luce on Twitter: @EdwardGLuce Tell us about what’s happening around you. Are jobs being cut? Are workers being put at risk?...
...FT commenter Patnaik K V: Are central banks better prepared now, in terms of ammunition at their disposal, to respond to the economic fallout of this pandemic than they were in 2008?...
...Economists say a V-shaped recovery is unlikely. Even then it could be two Vs stuck together – a W, in other words....
...You can email the team on swampnotes@ft.com, contact Ed on edward.luce@ft.com and Rana on rana.foroohar@ft.com, and follow them on Twitter at @RanaForoohar and @EdwardGLuce...
...As I explore in my latest column, this isn’t going to be a V-shaped stock price recovery — I think it will be a choice between a W (probably with several peaks and valleys) and an L....
...My own feeling is that this will not be a V or even a U-shaped recovery, but a downwardly trending W that has a high risk of turning into a L....
...But, he tells Edward Luce, the crisis can be a force for good....
...(FT) Recovery, brought to you by the letter V, or maybe W Mapping economic output to familiar shapes makes a good deal of sense....
...I also did my own Post column this week, for book promo, looking at how Elizabeth Warren v. Big Tech is really a battle between nationalism and neoliberalism....
...But I doubt that shape of the share price graph will be a perfect V. The other big V — the virus — has exposed too much vulnerability....
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