Hints and tips:
...The proposals would have strong appeal to a Trump administration, particularly one with China hawk Robert Lighthizer as the US trade rep....
...Eric Rosengren and Robert Kaplan, who had headed two regional bank branches, resigned in September....
...When the scandal erupted in early September, it was squarely focused on large individual trades made by Eric Rosengren, then president of the Boston Fed, and Robert Kaplan, then president of the Dallas Fed...
...Robert Cardillo, a former head of the national geospatial-intelligence agency, is another possible choice for DNI. Like Mr Rogers, he would be especially focused on cyber security....
...When it comes to the job of USTR, we have already written that there is a small but non-trivial chance Biden might want to keep Robert Lighthizer on board....
...Trump’s trade tsar, Robert Lighthizer, has been a distinctive character and will probably be remembered long after he’s left office, for better or for worse....
...Robert Tipp, head of global bonds for PGIM Fixed Income, said the Fed had acknowledged the “high-risk situation” facing the economy. “It’s all hands on deck until this is over,” he said....
...construction work has attracted a number of relative newcomers to the UK including Spain’s Acciona, Hochtief of Germany and Dutch company Volker, which has formed a joint venture with France’s Bouygues and Sir Robert...
...One concern is that the markets are beginning to recognise that secular stagnation may be gripping the world economy (see Robert Shiller)....
...Andrew Roberts is the author of ‘The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War’ (Penguin)...
...(Profile Books UK; Public Affairs USA) In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic , by David Wessel (CrownBusiness)...
...Akerlof & Robert J. Shiller 6....
...There were three on the longlist and Animal Spirits by George Akerlof and Robert Shiller won through....
...In Animal Spirits , George Akerlof and Robert Shiller look at what went wrong with orthodox economics but also lay out ambitious ways human nature could be channelled to improve capitalism....
...Access to key players allows Wessel to draw up a balanced report. His conclusion? Without Bernanke things could have been much worse....
...“It’s not a big chunk, but it would free up a decent amount of capital – around $300 to $500m, depending on the mix,” said JPMorgan analyst Andrew Wessel....
...Robert Genader, Ambac’s chief executive, last month said his company could write more insurance on bonds that require less capital, like municipal bonds....
...At the heart of the matter is the fact that bond insurance is a “confidence game”, according to Robert Haines at CreditSights, the independent research group....
...Andrew Wessel at JPMorgan said: “They’ll all end up retaining the triple-A rating, but at what price?”...
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