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...It’s also interesting that the White House just appointed Mike Konczal, a financialisation expert and former Roosevelt Institute director, as a member of the National Economic Council....
...But inevitably, because all the directors who tackle it and those who don’t realise the ambition, like Stanley Kubrick, identify with Napoleon....
...Phil Thornton: If the mark of victory is achieving the 2 per cent target then that will more likely occur in 2025 than 2024....
...The human toll from these disasters, which experts say are becoming more common and more intense due to human-induced climate change, can be counted first of all in the thousands of lives lost....
...Experts and some Italian officials say this is a stretch....
...Phil Soper, chief executive of Royal LePage, a large Canadian estate agent, said higher rates were definitely making a difference....
...The European Central Bank in May warned that an “abrupt increase” in real interest rates could induce house price “corrections” in the near term....
...Roach, who is a former Morgan Stanley chief economist, says the sort of individualism that a stronger consumer economy requires goes against the Chinese system under Xi....
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics: Lag behind....
...A likely housing market correction or crash will not help either....
...The EU has also lost its trade commissioner Phil Hogan over breaching lockdown rules....
...The recovery shows that, with the right policies, anywhere can regenerate, say experts....
...Jacob Nell, chief UK economist, head of European economics, at Morgan Stanley: No....
...Morgan Stanley recently calculated that 21 major asset classes around the world are negative for the year in real terms....
...Still, some observers have pushed back on bleak forecasts for a price correction this year....
...Phil Davison...
...UBS has Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa on customer service duty, JPMorgan is using robots (the invisible kind) to execute trades and Morgan Stanley has an AI fraud detection team....
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics Oh dear — we are back to Brexit....
...(RSVP: DDrsvp@ft.com) In the never-ending war for Wall Street supremacy, Morgan Stanley seems to have all the momentum against Goldman Sachs....
...For most investors, the focus on passive vehicles makes sense, experts say. “You can’t control the ups and downs of the market....
...Pope Francis continues to enjoy extraordinarily high levels of popularity — including in the US — and many Vatican experts say that the dissent is confined to traditionalist circles that are out of step...
...Investment experts believe regulators are paying more attention to asset managers’ balance sheets in an attempt to reduce systemic risks by ensuring fund houses have enough capital to weather times of market...
...Experts believe that a happier and healthier workforce at banks will boost their bottom line....
...Purity, by Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate, RRP£20/FSG, RRP$28 So it’s not Franzen’s finest — not up there with The Corrections (2001), say....
...Phil Thornton, director, Clarity Economics Growth is likely to fall to perhaps half the pace in 2016....
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