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...Their critique is perhaps best laid out in 2018’s The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff....
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...SAFE indicates that cumulative FDI was just $15bn in the first nine months of the year — an almost 92 per cent slump since 2022’s total....
...In an assessment of the sanctions, Elina Ribakova, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, says that the G7’s actions, seeking to limit flows of money to Russia from oil exports...
...“This is a point of minimum — rather than maximum — confidence,” as Joseph Gagnon of the Peterson Institute told the FT last week....
...The benchmark S&P 500 index is up 13.6 per cent this year....
...Adam Posen of the Peterson Institute of International Economics has argued powerfully that they cannot. I am not convinced. They changed in the late 1970s on a far bigger scale....
...The FTSE 100 has lagged far behind New York’s benchmark S&P 500 and Europe’s region-wide Stoxx 600 in 2023. But some argue that UK stocks suddenly have the wind at their backs....
...Meanwhile, the S&P 500 posted a total return of 17 per cent in the first half of this year and the US Federal Reserve funds rate, a proxy for risk-free returns for investors, is 5.25 per cent....
...“If we are going to hit our 2030 [climate] targets we need China,” says Jacob Kirkegaard of the Peterson Institute....
...The construction purchasing managers’ index from S&P Global and CIPS UK, which measures month-on-month changes in industry activity, fell from 59.1 in March to 58.2 in April....
...EU, France, Germany, Japan, UK, US: Cips/S&P Global manufacturing and services purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data UK, public sector net borrowing data UK, Kantar’s monthly supermarket sales, market...
...Despite these challenges, the final reading of the British manufacturers’ purchasing manager’s index, compiled by S&P Global, rose to 55.8 in April, up from 55.2 in March....
...Meanwhile George Osborne, another former Tory chancellor, told Channel 4’s Andrew Neil Show that he had concerns, although he found it refreshing that prime minister Liz Truss and Kwarteng were “conviction...
...Later on Friday morning, the weaker data were reinforced by a flash purchasing managers’ index, compiled by S&P Global, also suggesting that rises in energy and food prices were rapidly cooling activity...
...Explainer: The implications of Opec+’s decision reaches well beyond the oil price to the future of the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia, as our energy team explains....
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...Already, S&P Global has downgraded Russia’s credit rating to “selective default”, saying it does not expect investors to receive payment in dollars within the 30-day window....
...Chad Bown, of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, has published a timeline of all the sanctions imposed on Russia since February, to be updated in real time....
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