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...[R]eal wages grew by an average of 33 per cent a decade from 1970 to 2007, but this fell to below zero in the 2010s. In mid-2023 wages were back where they were during the financial crisis.”...
...Brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista signed leniency deals with prosecutors and spent time incarcerated....
...There is a funding gap between the R&D stage and companies securing sufficient customer agreements and private sector investment to press ahead with a factory, according to AMTE’s boss Alan Hollis....
...Wesley So hoped for either a queen exchange or 2... Qf3 3 Qg2 with repeated moves but he missed 2...Rh1+! and wins. Chess 2408 1...g4+! 2 Bxg4 Rh2+! 3 Kxh2 Qxh4+ 4 Kg2 Qxg3+ and Qh2 mate....
...James R Owen Paris, France...
...There is plenty of menace in White Fox (Bantam, £18.99/Doubleday, $28), the last volume of Owen Matthews’ outstanding trilogy featuring KGB Lt Col Alexander Vasin....
...The company is backed by private investors and Business Finland, which funds innovation, to the tune of €4.6mn, with further R&D grants from the EU....
...The Nissan GT-R, which can hit 200mph, is less “canon” than some others as it only costs about £90,000. You can car spot anywhere, but Knightsbridge and Mayfair are the meccas....
...We should aim to at least double R&D as a share of GDP (public and private funding together)....
...Lewis R Gordon is an American philosopher whose book Fear of Black Consciousness was published earlier this year....
...“The Kremlin had a geopolitically problematic asset [in Tinkoff] and Potanin had a solution,” said Tatiana Stanovaya, founder of political analysis firm R.Politik....
...Letters in response to this article: Rees-Mogg promotion is relief for civil servants / From Su Hardman, Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK Between the Remington typewriter and the ink well / From James R Owen,...
...Wesley Paul William Streeting began his political journey in a very different place to Jeremy Corbyn, Labour’s previous leader, and they arrived at very different destinations....
...And he knows very well the influential pro-Trump activist Candace Owens. Clip of Candace Owens and George FarmerAnd introduce you guys to my fiancée, future husband, George Farmer....
...David Owen, economist at Jefferies, said the notion of the UK as a low productivity growth country could be challenged by the pandemic which had forced “new ways of doing business and innovation”....
...Owen O’Kane grew up well-acquainted with the psychological damage that bombs and bullets inflict on communities long after their immediate impact, having witnessed first-hand the troubles in Northern Ireland...
...Jane Owen is an author and Chelsea Flower Show gold medallist. This is the second instalment in her garden diary — catch up with the first instalment of her diary here....
...Jane Owen is an author and FT Weekend’s former deputy editor. Email: oldmoney@ft.com; Twitter: @Jane_Owen...
...R Ramdohr Weinheim, Germany...
...We are paying thousands of pounds per person to indulge in a bit of R & R which risks death, requires helmets, body armour and (in my case) regular moments of heart-palpitating terror....
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letter in response to this article: Looking forward to an update on Jane’s garden / From R Ramdohr, Weinheim, Germany...
...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
Three recent cases question whether investors were properly represented in deals that benefited insiders
...The amount of the bribes paid to politicians and officials are estimated at over R$22m ($5.8m)....
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