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...The fact that Korea’s notoriously mental-health-destroying education system has families spending 20 per cent of income on private tuition is noted approvingly....
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Here’s Citi’s Andrew Coombs et al. then: For the European banks, we see less risk of deposit flight and believe they have more liquid balance sheets....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
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...You can understand why the US et al would make a big fuss about Russia avoiding its sanctions by flogging knockdown oil to India or cheap gas to China — though I would note in passing that Russia’s imperialist...
...Despairing of a strong US presence, America’s allies in the region (Japan, Australia, New Zealand et al) will agonise about how much they can slow-walk China’s application to join the CPTPP....
...al) with buildings by Ando, Rogers, Piano, Niemeyer and Nouvel....
...Chetty et al. (2017) find that there is a 14 years life expectancy gap between top and bottom 1% males in the US, and that this gap has widened since 2001....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...National interest in food security has played second fiddle to laissez-faire economics: “Let consumers decide,” or, as Lang puts it, “Leave it to Tesco et al.”...
...Or we could go back and use the framework of Mehlum et al (2006) to ask about the quality of institutions....
...Only at Oxford did they acquire the qualities that Johnson et al already had: a ruling-class accent, rhetorical skills and the ability to feel confident in any establishment setting....
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...Ten years on from the New Atheism campaign of ultra-reductionists Richard Dawkins et al, Rees, while stating he is an atheist, declares that he shares a sense of “mystery” with those who believe in God....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Reed Hastings never had to work out a way of collecting money without credit cards, or to fret about data servers — actual physical boxes holding 170 terabytes of House of Cards et al — being stranded at...
...I have seen no data to show how Facebook and Twitter et al advance happiness or social cohesion....
...A second study, Jones et al. (2011), analyzed a treatment for localized prostate cancer (an early stage of prostate cancer with a five-year survival rate on the order of 80 percent)....
...The European economy, meanwhile, is in recovery mode, as reflected by a spate of strong first-quarter real GDP prints posted this week across emerging Europe in Poland, Hungary, Romania et al....
...I’d set up and capitalise a European debt management agency to create ESBies (the European safe bonds of Brunnermeier et al). I’d set up a eurozone growth capital fund for fast-growing companies....
...One never wants to be the chirruping idiot at the water cooler when so many wise heads are slumped, stricken and rending their garments at Brexit, Donald Trump, et al....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...That makes China’s leaders v nervous and restricts policy options....
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