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...China believes it has sovereignty over the island and has increased military activity nearby since US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited this month....
...Central bank policy Federal Reserve board vice chair Richard Clarida is due to speak on the US economic outlook and monetary policy at the Peterson Institute....
...However, other surveys, including this week’s FT-Peterson poll, show the president is losing his edge on this issue....
...(FT) Join Peter Spiegel, Lauren Fedor and Michael Peterson from the Peter G Peterson Foundation for the next instalment of the FT’s New Economic Reality series....
...Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, on Monday said America would “lose all moral authority” if the US president let economic interests override concerns about human rights...
...Two Democrats from districts that voted for Mr Trump in 2016 — Jeff Van Drew from New Jersey and Collin Peterson from Minnesota — voted against the resolution....
...Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, said that policymakers could not treat the current crisis like a normal recession....
...“American leaders’ highest priority is to protect American lives and interests,” said Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House speaker, on Friday....
...Asked about the tariffs while on a trip to Madrid, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, said she had not been informed about Mr Trump’s action and called for the US...
...Democrats, too, have made positive noises, with both Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House speaker, and Richard Neal, chairman of the House ways and means committee, saying negotiations would continue with...
...(FT) ● China has cut some tariffs — on America’s competitors (Peterson Institute for International Economics)...
...House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the decision to pursue impeachment proceedings after details of a July 25 phone call between Mr Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart were leaked by a CIA whistleblower....
...The US government shutdown is presenting an early test of House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ability to maintain party discipline as Democratic lawmakers confront mounting evidence of hardship among federal workers...
...Monte Peterson, a North Dakota soyabean grower, said people understood the need to deal with China, but questioned the tactics....
...Best of the rest Adapt or die: a new breed of trade union can save the fossils of old — John Harris in the Guardian Jordan Peterson and fascist mysticism — Pankaj Mishra in the New York Review of Books...
...The rhetoric from the party’s leadership has been apocalyptic, with Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, speaking of “monumental, brazen theft from the American middle class”....
...But $4.3m of attack ads from national Republicans and an inability to distance himself from Mr Obama and Nancy Pelosi, House minority leader, has brought his challenger neck-and-neck in polling....
...Nancy Birdsall, director of the Centre for Global Development in Washington, said: “Zoellick was a solid president who steadied the bank after the Wolfowitz fracas and secured new resources.”...
...Collin Peterson, the chairman of the House agriculture committee, also voted No in November....
...The vote, which Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker, said she was confident would pass, would commit the US to reducing its emissions to 17 per cent below 2005 levels by 2025....
...GM is a “behemoth” that has “too many brands and too many models”, Mr Peterson says....
...Nancy Pelosi, House speaker, on Thursday told reporters that the House acted to “reassert its authority”....
...Others put the blame on the decision by Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, to delay a vote on the deal indefinitely....
...The Chinese delegation, led by vice-premier Wu Yi, will also meet Nancy Pelosi, House speaker, and other leaders of Congress....
...Mr Dingwall could clash with Nancy Pelosi, the next speaker, on the imposition of new fuel efficiency standards, given his traditional support of the car industry....
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