Hints and tips:
...“The 2024 Old Farmer’s Almanac”, $9.95; “The Celestial Garden” by Jane Hawley Stevens (Chelsea Green Publishing, £25); “Gardening and Planting by the Moon 2024” by James Lynn Page (W Foulsham & Co, £9.99...
...If they weren’t, firms would be disciplined; a tax inspector might show up at your door to have a closer look at your accounts....
...“A lot of what the IRA has done, besides throwing money at something that was coming anyway, [has] also heated the market up and driven costs to go up,” he said....
...Trying to run on industrial policy as such is a non-starter because, when polled this summer, more than 70 per cent of Americans had not heard of the IRA....
...Holmes wrote that the public line of Sinn Féin, the political wing of the Provisional IRA, had turned “very negative” on the evening of April 9 and it looked as if they were preparing to “dissociate themselves...
...One good read Good marriages and joint checking accounts....
...Robert ArmstrongYes. Ethan WuNobody does the equivalent for their W-2. Robert ArmstrongNo, indeed. Ethan WuWhere it’s Joe Biden saying, I did this. No, it’s the worker that did that....
...And then thinking a lot about this basic question of how you take the logic of the IRA global and create more IRAs in more places, from Brazil to Europe to east Asia and right now, these are just informal...
...Finally, as a new report published yesterday highlights, serious momentum is growing behind efforts to account properly for the value of nature in the global economic system....
...The fact that J Robert Oppenheimer agonised over his part in the creation of the atomic bomb is not interesting. Was he meant to whistle to work?...
...“He’s saying the quiet bit aloud,” said Robert Campbell, head of energy transition research at Energy Aspects, referring to Calhoun’s comments....
...George W Bush said he could “get a sense of his soul” and found Putin “straightforward and trustworthy”....
...Road, rail, shipping and aviation account for about 65 per cent of that demand....
...IRA staff set up clusters of fake accounts and pages and bought advertising in roubles....
...Confronting Saddam Hussein: George W Bush and the Invasion of Iraq by Melvyn P Leffler, OUP, $27.95/£21.99, 368 pages Robert Zoellick is the author of ‘America in the World: A History of US Diplomacy and...
...For the swooning faithful, all the high-and-mighty talk of the rule of law is of little account compared with the hot flush, the racing pulse, the pure yee-haw MAGA-hellion USA high they get from glowing...
...‘The Promise and Peril of Entrepreneurship: Job Creation and Survival among US Startups,’ by Robert W Fairlie, Zachary Kroff, Javier Miranda, and Nikolas Zolas Why do we need entrepreneurs?...
...Robert Habeck, economy minister, told a conference in November that some were taking an “almost sensual pleasure” in predicting Germany’s decline, defining problems “just so they can wallow in them”....
...Put this in the context of the accounts that surrounded it....
...Junk fees are confusing and sometimes hidden fees added to ticketmaster purchases, bank accounts, hotel bills and many other purchases....
...Email me your own thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com....
...It was unclear from the report which side the court’s Chief Justice John Roberts would side with....
...A few months later, I interviewed former US president George W Bush, who described a similar change in Putin, from pragmatic early on to boastful by the late 2000s....
...The granddaddy of all papers on this topic is W. Brian Arthur’s “Increasing Returns and the New World of Business,” published a quarter century ago....
...Email me: robert.armstrong@ft.com Do we have 1950s-style inflation? I often describe inflation as the thing that everyone is always wrong about....
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