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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.”...
...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....
...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)....
...“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,...
...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....
...Jane Owen is FT Weekend’s deputy editor and author of several garden books....
...The Whole Foods election: letter from James R Owen, Paris, France Edward Luce neglects to mention one possible answer to the question of US electoral overhaul in his Big Read article: namely, the National...
...Letter in response to this briefing: Parliament has already approved Brexit / From D R Myddelton, London, UK...
...Letters in response to this article: A state-by-state overhaul of the electoral college system / From James R Owen, Paris, France Re-elected to Portsmouth seat 87 days post-mortem / From Chris Huhne, London...
...It’s based on a novel by R.J. Palacio. Don’t buy it for me, please, for Christmas. ★★☆☆☆...
...David Owen, economist at Jefferies, added: “Looking at the UK in a post-Brexit world, the chancellor could arguably have been more ambitious in his plans to boost long-term UK productivity growth, including...
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