Hints and tips:
...Richard Portes: No single one! Serious planning reforms. Terminating HS2, using funds for other infrastructure investment. Reversing immigration restrictions....
...Ian Plenderleith: No, so long as it can maintain confidence in sensible fiscal management. Jonathan Portes: No....
...The scandal has prompted senior executives from BHP, Rio Tinto, Fortescue Metals Group, Woodside Energy and Newmont to hold a joint press conference, where they issued a rare public apology....
...“There are excessive progressives in my own party who . . . are trying to change the Labor party, and with some success, from the party of the workers to the party of climate change,” says Joel Fitzgibbon...
...Swire has a joint venture with the development arm of a local government in Shanghai....
...Song Jung-a in Seoul 28....
...Shell management had previously indicated that the company’s sustaining level of capex was ~$20bn, assuming no spending on New Energies....
...We had virtually no international business in 2011 but now it is about 35 per cent of our assets,” says Mr Rivière....
...But government grant funding for local services delivered by local councils will be cut by £1.3bn (36 per cent) in 2019/20, which will directly impact the less well off....
...The hold-up, a reform of Tata’s UK pension fund, has just been concluded, paving the way for a joint venture agreement....
...Less rigid trade union laws, a return to collective bargaining together with the Gaullist policy of worker-directors as in Germany would ensure that morale is raised....
...Unsurprisingly a London Renters’ Union has formed recently....
...So I will, over the next 6 years, gradually reduce the bank levy rate – and after that make sure it no longer applies to worldwide balance sheets....
...(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...
...Nor can it directly rehire schoolteachers and other public workers that get laid off in a state & local government budget crunch....
...Not a big surprise since there were no other candidates. 9.28: And from Ralph Musgrave, in Durham, northern England, in today’s letters page: “Sir, I was interested to learn from Brian Garcia (Letters...
...Remember, Greece announced on Sunday that it would miss its 2011 budget deficit target set by the so-called troika of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund – a...
...I think we have enough people in middle management and supervisory levels. We don’t want to be top-heavy”....
...Qing, 28 years old, is a migrant worker....
...One that empowers local leadership, generates local economic growth, and promotes job creation in all parts of the country including Wales and Scotland....
...Emotionally, BP’s staff and management had invested heavily in the operation’s success....
...It is no longer sufficient to train workers to meet their specific current needs; we should ensure access to training programs that support lifelong skills development and focus on future market needs....
...Outside the sheet-metal gates, security guards with shotguns eye passers-by and workers reporting for duty....
...There were no open market operations in foreign currencies for the System’s account during the period since the Committee’s January 27-28 meeting....
...“No,” says Cranfield’s David Grayson....
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