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...The move puts Podesta, 75, a veteran of the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations, at the heart of US international climate policy....
...He echoed comments by Dallas Fed president Lorie Logan, who said tighter financial conditions could reduce the need for a higher policy rate....
...Biden is not the first president to declare an export licence hiatus: Barack Obama, under whom Biden served as vice-president, previously paused approvals from 2012 to 2014....
...“There is no other political party that is getting away with such denialism in any other major country,” said Paul Bledsoe, a former White House adviser to then-president Bill Clinton and now strategic adviser...
...John Podesta, veteran of the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations, who took over from John Kerry as President Joe Biden’s chief climate diplomat in January, laid out the administration’s plans for...
...Bush Sr was defeated by Bill Clinton; Thomas Jefferson ejected Adams; Ronald Reagan trounced Carter; and JFK, who was murdered after barely 1,000 days in office, was followed by his vice-president, Lyndon...
...For example, President Nixon interacted with Fed officials 160 times, while only 6 interactions took place during the 8 years of the Clinton administration....
...Bill Clinton....
...Rental accommodation group Airbnb, video game maker Electronic Arts and electric truck start-up Rivian report after the market closes.Fedspeak: John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve’s New York...
...And the most recent time was the mid-1990s when [Bill Clinton’s political strategist] James Carville famously said, “I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president...
...By contrast, the first of the two novels Bill Clinton co-wrote with James Patterson — The President is Missing (2018), where a US president goes in search of the traitor on his team as he tries to prevent...
...Bill Clinton also negotiated a bargain as he left office to avoid indictment for the false testimony about Monica Lewinsky that had led to his impeachment....
...William Barr, the US attorney-general at the time, in 2019 directed Durham to conduct a review of the origins of the Russia probe, which morphed into a criminal investigation....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Monetary policy: John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve’s New York branch, and Fed board governor Philip Jefferson will speak at public events today....
...But EU politicians fear the subsidies’ scale could undermine the bloc’s own efforts to secure green investment, with Emmanuel Macron, president of France, warning the IRA could “fragment the west”....
...Bill Clinton realised it was “just a matter of time” before Vladimir Putin would invade Ukraine, the former US president said yesterday, recalling remarks made by the Russian leader in 2011 on an agreement...
...William Ruto, Kenya’s president, criticised the fund and bank at a development finance conference last week in Paris and said low-income countries’ environmental transitions should be financed by a new,...
...The last time a president won re-election in spite of a recession in his last two years was William McKinley in 1900....
...A former Clinton State Department alumnus and former founding head of the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation’s economy and society initiative — where she funded many of the most influential policy thinkers...
...In 2016, Alan Abramowitz’s ‘time for change’ model, which took two variables — US economic performance and the incumbent president’s approval rating — forecast that Hillary Clinton would lose to Donald Trump...
...European Council president Charles Michel has called for existing EU funds to be deployed more quickly and for it to be easier to “rechannel” money to new priorities....
...“Industrial America just abandoned these communities,” says Williams. But at the moment, its operation is limited in scale — it employs just 140 people....
...But in spite of all the House investigations over the past few months, they have turned up no evidence to link the president to any of this....
...Twelve US presidents — Washington, Jefferson and Clinton among them — lost fathers early in life....
...Podesta previously served as White House chief of staff to former president Bill Clinton and also helped coordinate the Obama adminstration’s climate policy and initiatives....
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