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...Gordon Moore’s famous prediction about computing power must count as one of the most astonishingly accurate forecasts in history....
...’ Henry Farrell, as well as big think-tanks like the Roosevelt Institute and the Open Markets Institute (I sit on the board of the latter) that are working on aspects of a post-neoliberal future....
...I heard Khanna speak last week at the launch of “Reimagining the Economy”, a Harvard Kennedy School initiative led by economists Dani Rodrik and Gordon Hanson....
...(Gordon Brown and Theresa May, bleaker in temperament, which is always misread as depth, fell short.)...
...Banker Gordon Dyal offered M&A predictions, highlighting the buoyant mood among bankers for another stellar year, while also pointing out the adversarial regulatory environment, stemming from Lina Khan’s...
...A passage from Teddy Roosevelt’s “Citizenship in a Republic” speech is printed on it....
...Go deeper: A read on how Biden is styling himself as a 21st-century ‘trust buster’, in the tradition of Theodore Roosevelt who instigated the break-up of Standard Oil in 1906....
...Nor was the Nixon shock unprecedented; the $35 peg itself was established by Franklin Roosevelt after he had devalued the dollar by breaking an earlier gold peg....
...The flagship spending package cements a leftward shift in US politics and economics, says our weekend Big Read, carrying echoes of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal during the Depression, and Lyndon Johnson...
...A decade since either was UK premier, it is still customary there to view Gordon Brown as New Labour’s man of substance, and Tony Blair as its fluent huckster....
...Johnson recently called for a “Marshall Plan”, a creaking old metaphor traditionally wheeled out by the UK (especially former prime minister Gordon Brown) once every few years and particularly when it chairs...
...The news came as Boris Johnson prepared to channel Franklin D Roosevelt and announce a “new deal” building programme....
...Speaking on Mount Rushmore in front of the sculpture of American presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln the president denounced a “merciless campaign to wipe...
...Citing Franklin D Roosevelt’s Depression-era New Deal as a precedent, Democratic party leaders on Capitol Hill are calling for urgent fiscal measures to help struggling households, and state and local governments...
...We’re talking about FDR [Franklin D Roosevelt]. One nation conservatism....
...So a new Republican agenda might do more to help people compete — that sounds more like Lincoln, or like Roosevelt’s GI bill. In that lies a new agenda....
...Ulla Johnson staged a gorgeous catwalk show, sans audience, on Roosevelt Island....
...We await Gordon Brown’s impending defection to Ukip and Joe Biden’s small step to Trumpism....
...One thing to start: JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon has had emergency heart surgery and will hand over day-to-day running of the bank to co-presidents Daniel Pinto and Gordon Smith while he recovers...
...Roosevelt’s New Deal....
...The book’s conservative tilt first emerges in its treatment of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who is grudgingly admired as a politician, salesman, and wartime leader....
...Citing Theodore Roosevelt, he said there was no doubt that the US would continue to play a “great part in the world . . . The only question is whether we will play it well or ill”....
...Tugwell, an intriguing character, a handsome, progressive economist who became part of Roosevelt’s “Brain Trust” initiating policy for the New Deal....
...He describes Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner who has enthusiastically taken on the likes of Apple and Google, as a 21st-century reincarnation of the trust-busting Teddy Roosevelt....
...Gordon Brown, I discovered, enjoyed champagne, but only off duty....
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