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...But far more significant than the short-term risk is how the protests reminded the world that America’s most valuable brand increasingly finds itself beholden to America’s biggest geopolitical rival....
...Well, it’s a new one for us....
...Meanwhile, Time magazine had an interesting cover story on how John Kerry is bringing America back into the climate fight....
...Al-Hajri, the brother-in-law of Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, recently acquired the hotel from members of the wealthy Barclay family....
...ones, US equities outrun global markets, and precious metals do better than other commodities....
...That was more than the number of robots sold in Europe and the Americas combined....
...Feldman et al. have a sense why that is:The access to capital investment and the ability to spread risks among many small shareholders appears to facilitate heavier investments in R&D, arguably the riskiest...
...Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF, even joined the company’s board....
...“One of the things we are trying to bring back is the fashion and the passion . . . This is a scarcity play — get one, be different and be cool.”...
...ports....
...It has shut down one of its main engineering sites, making about 40 staff redundant, and put the V-Charge on ice....
...Rauschenberg’s vision of America is at once panoramic and parochial: the Statue of Liberty jostles with lower Manhattan’s water towers, fire escapes and signs that scream “Stop”, “Go” and “One Way.”...
...Official guidance is required on whether Gareth Bale et al were expressing confidence in the UK’s future as a free trader, or were just better at kicking a ball around....
...- And Nick Rowe arguing against Borio et al’s objection to helicopter money....
...-Al Baldasaro, a Trump surrogate, clarifying his remarks on Clinton....
...But while newspapers are increasingly taking their lead from BuzzFeed et al, and their mastery of content distribution via platforms such as Facebook, the digital upstarts are shifting focus to a distinctly...
...One plugged-in Democrat suggests there is a generational divide in attitudes towards Uber et al. The drivers who may fret about the risks of relying on income from Uber tend to be middle-aged, he says....
...Amazonfresh v Ocado Brooke Masters has been comparing Amazon’s Fresh grocery delivery service, launched in the UK this week, with her regular home deliveries from Ocado. Fresh had one key flaw....
...“I think you can probably watch Bridge of Spies at home, but I wouldn’t want to watch ET there,” says Obst. “I wouldn’t want to watch The Revenant at home....
...Yet these conditions also make it one of the best places in the world to extract lithium, a soft, volatile metal that is found in the Earth’s crust....
...No one likes people being unemployed but we are the good guys here: our unemployment is better than other forms because the job losses we create are in the higher cause of the advancement of society....
...I will discuss the economic effects of protectionism another time. —————————————————————————————————— Footnotes [1] Ricardo Caballero et al have published similar work, and John Cochrane has responded...
...Today it unveils an initiative to create a new space industry that would exploit asteroids for metals and other materials that are scarce on Earth....
...Funds may have sold out of Valeant, Apple et al before the rot set in....
...biggest producer of the metal will become clear when ArcelorMittal posts its third-quarter financial results....
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