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...Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the previous bank chief who was under investigation by Italian police in a money-laundering inquiry, was sacked after the bank’s board denounced him in May 2012 for dereliction of...
...A former bank, a handsome 1920s building, has become the Stony Island Arts Bank where the vast archives of Ebony and Jet magazines sit alongside the thousands of artefacts in the Edward J Williams Collection...
...Meanwhile, it is true that India’s state apparatus is weak, with worrying signs of decline in institutions such as its parliament and central bank....
..., London’s major new cultural quarter, soon to house outposts of the V&A, UCL, Sadler’s Wells and the BBC....
...The Bank of England has made it clear it will prevent any financing difficulties in the short term....
...Allan Monks: The Bank of England would feel comfortable cutting to -0.5 per cent if it needed to....
...says a soldier, fearing a different enemy, in Henry V. “I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety.”...
...The man dubbed by Private Eye as the Mad Monk spoke about wealth creation and the importance of business. Here was a great human drama of immense importance....
.... ————————– Japan 1980s v China now1....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...Allan Monks, global market strategist, JPMorgan I expect annual GDP growth to slow to 1.3% next year. Household real labour income looks set to slow to a crawl....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...Financial instability ($500bn QE pumped out each quarter by G4 central banks, negative bond yields, effectively insolvent (absent public subsidies) global banks, low levels of lending, high real rates for...
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College A fall in migration would have very negative effects on the public finances and growth....
...None of these should bust your bank account, but at least your friend might be amused enough not to chuck them away immediately....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...Virginia Woolf’s Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk’s House, by Caroline Zoob and Caroline Arber, Jacqui Small, RRP£30/$50 Although not a great gardener, Woolf loved her garden at Monk’s House in Sussex...
...Kim Wilkie, who designed the V&A’s renowned John Madejski Garden, will discuss his life and work at the V&A on Monday June 18, 7pm-8.45pm £15 (including reception and book signing), tel: +44 (0)20 7942 2277...
...The Design Museum is currently housed in a 1940s banana warehouse on the south bank of the Thames, converted to make it look like a 1930s apartment block....
...Just a week before I met with him, he was sitting across the table from Andrei Burlakov, a businessman involved in a messy dispute over the sale of a stake in Russia’s fifth-largest bank, the Bank of Moscow...
...The Dazu carvings include scores of caves and 50,000 statues hewn by devout Buddhist monks as early as the 7th century....
...It certainly works for the landmarked Waldorf=Astoria Hotel (yes, they use the = sign), which was designed by Schultze Weaver, built in 1931 and is frequently solidly booked....
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