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...Peynaud’s successors at the University of Bordeaux, currently Marchal et al, produce a detailed report on the growing season every year....
...Cross-border portfolio shifts (eg, US Treasuries) can diminish or even reverse the impact of ever-larger QE interventions on asset prices, as described in a paper by John Geanakoplos and Haobin Wang....
...They look at Facebook’s past five years and its attempts — frequently belated, often ambiguous — to deal with the way that state actors (Russia et al), hoodlums (such as the Proud Boys), politicians (a list...
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...al, with just $9bn on legacy oil and gas....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...Furthermore, motivated by the results of Agarwal et al. (2009) and Joenväärä et al. (2015), we consolidate six hedge fund databases to ensure a wide coverage of funds over a long time period (January 1994...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...From the latest BIS quarterly review, in particular its bit on dollar credit to EMs (our emphasis): [Fed largesse]… drove a surge in issuance by both long-standing issuers and new ones (Mizen et al (2012...
...bond flows identified by Feroli et al (2014)....
...We suppose, before getting to what might stop this, one should probably discuss what’s hitting the Wunderbund et al. Still early in the day, after all....
...The following table, from a recent paper by Larry Summers et al, makes us suspicious: In 2012, the Fed bought significantly less duration than was issued by the US Treasury (2.5 per cent of GDP vs 3.8),...
...Indeed, China now sits on USD 3.6 Trn worth of reserves, a large portion of which exists in the form of US Treasuries and if we are to assume self-interest, then the curtailment in China’s US debt purchases...
...So it’s not surprising that the first response from Buchheit et al is to answer back with bits of the bond contract that suggest sneaky loopholes instead....
...In some recent work (Ostry et al, “Multilateral Aspects of Managing the Capital Account”), my IMF colleagues and I examined the issue of spillovers through the capital account, and when desirable global...
...United States v Apple, Inc et al is more than a US Justice department antitrust action against publishers allegedly colluding on ebook prices....
...One segment of the market (Open U, U of Phoenix, et al) specialise in delivering online courses for large audiences....
...holdings of US Treasury securities (Graph 3)....
...Books to furnish the smallest room, complete with quirky names (101 Uses For a Dead Cat, et al), are always in plentiful supply before Christmas....
...al (2010))....
...On Monday, while Thompson thought he was helping the Treasury meet a funding gap, Cameron et al were handing out surplus cash. It is hard to avoid the conclusion that he was bluffed....
...Dugong et al v Robert Gates, a lawsuit that has been playing out in a San Francisco court since 2003, gained fresh importance yesterday after Japan’s government agreed to build a replacement for the Futenma...
...So, Bernanke et al are now going to be increasingly targeting longer-term interest rates as a means to revive growth, mitigate double-dip risks and avoid a potentially destabilizing deflationary experience...
...Moody’s et al. are watching, waiting, and brooding over the UK’s AAA rating, after all....
...al at a national level....
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