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...The building was concrete, three stories high, no windows. Further down was a dumpster and an old parking lot overrun by knee-high weeds....
...Stephen Cecchetti is professor in international finance at Brandeis International Business School. Kim Schoenholtz is clinical professor emeritus at NYU’s Stern School of Business....
...Many Silicon Valley luminaries won’t be around to find out what happens. They have long since lost confidence in San Francisco....
...It also uses no electricity and has no internet connection. It is just as otherworldly and fabulous as the rest of the oasis....
...“The Bay Area does have this incredible legacy of being a wild place of expression, of cultural rebellion,” says artist Zio Ziegler, when we meet at his studio high up a residential Mill Valley road....
...Pepe Chacel, a retired high-school teacher who’s a regular at my neighbourhood churrería on the Calle Apodaca, says his mother saved money by making churros at home....
...Cassy Garcia, a 37-year-old former aide to US senator Ted Cruz, is among the Republicans running, having already picked up the endorsements of the National Border Patrol Council — a labour union that has...
...Not a member of the EU and outside the bloc’s customs union as well, Norway has high tolls on meat and dairy products from abroad. Rebanks is a big fan....
...Her “lightbulb moment” came when visiting the Apple Entrepreneur Camp for female founders in Silicon Valley....
...A sit-down restaurant with a vast takeaway and deli counter, it has been a feature of LA’s Fairfax District since 1948....
...(Billy Nauman) Smart read Engine No. 1’s win at ExxonMobil may have ESG investors riding high, but there is little for shareholder activists to celebrate in Silicon Valley....
...To the alarm of colleagues on the party’s left he made a conscious pivot away from Corbyn’s high-tax, high-spending ideas, vowing to make a virtue of financial responsibility....
...The international schools are building like crazy....
...Unions and traditional leftwing activists were joining, and the “We are the 99%” slogan was catching on....
...The picturesque Chalke Valley of Wiltshire is the unlikely setting for a mobile technology revolution....
...In a paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2009, Joshua Aizenman of the University of California, Santa Cruz and Nancy Marion of Dartmouth College point out that within 10 years of the end...
...The amount will increase to up to €8,000 for those with no qualifications and comes on top of a €3bn annual spending programme to train one million jobless and one million school dropouts over five years...
...I had lots of friends, both on my street and in school.”...
...There is no business district to speak of, there are no restaurants and no public transport. To find any kind of life, residents need to cross the Foothill Expressway to get into town....
...Bobby Mitchell moved from Santa Cruz eight years ago, and works at both a high school and a craft beer bar....
...Even when a site is found and approved, the cost of building is unfathomably high, at $500,000-$700,000 a unit, with expensive union labour one of the biggest elements....
...Local schools were facing cuts, school meals were being rescinded and university tuition fees were rising....
...Apple says that it is “the largest contributor to the local economy”, and is “supporting schools and public works projects across the Santa Clara Valley”....
...“The valley still echoes with the clang of Luddite hammers on the labour-saving machinery; with the stealthy tread of long-dead men on the way to illegal trade union assemblies on the moors,” Reg Groves...
...There’s no question for me,” he says....
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