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...Aggregate demand: China’s record $2.6tn rise in savings fuels ‘revenge spending’ hopes Fiscal policy: The US hit the debt ceiling. What happens next?...
...The supply of workers has been hit by deaths and long Covid....
...put pension fund liabilities on the balance sheet....
...Households’ balance sheets are strong, with excess savings worth 10 per cent of GDP, and the financial sector is well capitalised....
...“These are the concrete cows,” David Bermingham says as we ascend a metal ladder beside a huge corrugated metal cylinder. At the top he removes a plastic covering from a porthole....
...In contrast, many people have emerged from the crisis with high savings and many firms with balance sheets in good shape....
...Alongside the furlough scheme — which has covered the wages of workers temporarily laid off — business rates and tax holidays, as well as a grant scheme, small businesses had never before seen such direct...
...Meh, says Jefferies: A stamp duty holiday could offer £15,000 of savings to a buyer of a home of £500,000+, and as such would provide greater benefit for those in the South East and London where more purchases...
...Lower fuel costs and cheaper local currencies will benefit the cost base, though with a 6-month lag....
...rates holiday and rent negotiations....
...Brent and metals are off 4 per cent or so. You know why....
...To further support our people, I am also creating a new £500m Hardship Fund, distributed to Local Authorities who will be able to use that fund to directly support vulnerable people in their local area....
...Key downside risks to our rating and TP include continued pressure on auto sales volumes and the need for extended fee holidays....
...Herb Bleuer, a Swiss mountain man, had been called in to improve safety at Granduc, a local copper mine where an avalanche had killed 28 workers....
...He folds and solders tin sheets into cups, candle-sconces and open-sided tin-can ovens. The metal once arrived from Cornwall via Wales, a supply route the Revolution scuppered for a while....
...Mr Jetson responded by appointing more local managers, reducing Lihir’s reliance on fly-in, fly-out workers, training local staff and delivering community projects and new roads, which had been promised...
...The piece is only accessible through a revolving metal door; inside, visitors find themselves in a closed room made from corrugated metal sheets....
...The prime minister returned from holiday to conduct emergency talks about saving a further 15,000 jobs....
...There is much that can be done to improve these more local regional imbalances by improving local transport connectivity and regenerating deprived communities....
...(Financial Times) US pension fund sues big banks over CDS ‘dominance’: The class action antitrust suit filed by the Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 33 Cleveland District Pension Plan pension fund accuses...
...Today there are some families receiving £104,000 a year in housing benefit....
...For older workers, I want to extend the support provided by tax credits....
...A range of alternative approaches - through pooled intellectual property rights, a ”prize fund” as an alternative to patents, and a health impact fund to pay companies based on proven health outcomes - continue...
...But not much changed and, by late 2004, Texas City workers had grown so fearful of a massive accident that the local union contacted colleagues in Alaska for help in engaging the services of Chuck Hamel,...
...wage packets; IG Metall, the powerful engineering trade union, last month won an inflation-busting 3 per cent pay rise for 3.4m metal industry workers for the 10 months from June....
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