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...Sir Robert Stheeman is the outgoing CEO of the Debt Management Office and after 20 years of exceptional public service he is in the gallery today — thank you Sir Robert. I now turn to growth....
...As behavioural economist Robert Shiller has laid out in his work on narrative economics, such events are driven by “the prevalence and vividness of certain stories, not the purely economic feedback or multipliers...
...This had the effect of nudging up its pre-tax profit at a time when many of its peers in the listed real estate investment trust (Reit) space are swinging to big losses....
...We checked that he does in fact exist, and is listed as counsel on other cases. (Other attorneys listed from the DOJ focus on Chapter 11 proceedings or are affiliated with the US Trustee’s office.)...
...Aberdeen was accused of mis-selling trusts to investors in the 2002 split-cap scandal, costing thousands of investors millions of pounds....
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...Billie Milam Weisman could be seen as the keeper of the flame....
...That response has consisted, as far as I can tell, of finding ways to smuggle new debt into the system. The small loosening of bank reserve ratios is the least of it....
...a government target of spending £22bn a year on R&D pushed back by two years....
...These sophisticated healthcare tools are getting us closer to a new patient-doctor relationship, a trend that feels inevitable as fewer people trust institutions....
...Job moves Warren Buffett is stepping down from his role as a trustee of the Gates Foundation, adding to the uncertainty facing the world’s largest private philanthropy organisation after the divorce of...
...This was a few years after John Roberts had started online electronics retailer AO in nearby Bolton on the basis of a £1 bet....
...The operation, in which the r/WallStreetBets bulletin board featured as a rallying point, raised the value of the shares in struggling store chain GameStop eightfold at one point, according to Refinitiv...
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...His comments came after one of the largest studies into the prevalence of Covid-19 in England found the R rate — the average number of new cases generated by an infected individual — was 1.6....
...One study reviewed by UCL found that as much as 95 per cent of the population would have to install the app to reduce the R number. “We can’t see it as a silver bullet,” Dr Braithwaite said....
...robert.shrimsley@ft.com Follow Robert Shrimsley with myFT and on Twitter Letters in response to this column: Weighing lockdown against the economic cost / From Richard Ross, Chairman, Rosetrees Trust,...
...Can we trust the results?...
...In Rhythms of a Himalayan Village, the American writer Hugh R....
...Sir Robert said he would welcome “an agency where we are prepared for things to fall over and fail, as well as to succeed spectacularly, so long as it is in addition to and not at the expense of what we...
...“The Verfassungsschutz has already lost a huge amount of trust,” said Robert Lüdecke, of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, which monitors far-right activities....
...The public’s strong lockdown response so far should surely bestow it with its own “reservoir of trust”, allowing it to be treated as mature enough to cope with a certain degree of nuance; it has earned the...
...Charted waters Iron ore has outpaced gold to rank as the best-performing major commodity this year, as a rebounding China sucks in vast amounts of the key steelmaking ingredient from mines in Australia...
...Today, 50% of R&D funding goes to London, the East and the South East of England....
...Glasper’s edgy merging of jazz, hip-hop and R’n’B became a core component of the revamped label’s aesthetic, and Glasper and his bassist Derrick Hodge also acted as producers and talent scouts....
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