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...“Our international legal system doesn’t have a police force . . . it really does rest on fundamental respect for international law,” says Philippa Webb of King’s College London, author of a European parliament...
...of Foreign Assets and China Investment Corporation have poured money into, according to people familiar with their affairs and an analysis of regulatory filings....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...“They’re in a tough spot,” says Stacy Rasgon, a chip analyst at Bernstein Research. “The best you can say is that the worst news is already out.”...
...and prove that democratic systems can be functional....
...The initiative from New Zealand et al has not reached critical mass: the big trading economies have not signed on....
...The idea, essentially, was to substitute international treaty law for the, ahem, “unreliable” national legal systems of the countries involved....
...The global community should be looking to rest, adjust or trim the ways things are, on a regular basis otherwise there will be imbalances allowing Trumps et al to garner support to deal with greater accrued...
...The former head of a US government biomedical research agency accused the Trump administration of demoting him after he resisted efforts to fund potential Covid-19 treatments touted by Donald Trump....
...Capital controls, a biased legal system and limited personal freedoms all count against Shenzhen....
...This is a gift from someone, maybe savers and DB pension systems....
...(BBC) Video of the day Are corporations paying enough tax?...
...Blake Rogers, an engineer at the Aerospace Corporation, a government-funded research agency, told the FT: “2024 is really soon. So there’s not a lot of brand-new technology.”...
...(Gillian Tett and Billy Nauman) The FT and the International Finance Corporation have announced the winners of their 2019 Transformational Business Awards....
...Only at Oxford did they acquire the qualities that Johnson et al already had: a ruling-class accent, rhetorical skills and the ability to feel confident in any establishment setting....
...Everyone has had a piece of HOF: from the al-Fayed family to Iceland’s Baugur....
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...corporations. —————- The case for trade and the TPP has largely been won in Nebraska, a proud farm state that sends beef and soybeans around the world....
...A reform of US corporation tax would reduce the competitive advantage of the UK’s present corporation tax policy....
...et d’Economie (EGE), another new school in the capital....
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...I’ve already announced a reduction in our corporation tax rate to 18%....
...And that means it is likely to follow the interests of the powerful, either the internet’s biggest corporations or some international body (the UN’s International Telecommunications Union, perhaps) that...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...It offers a superbly written and rigorous analysis of what happened to the US financial system and of how policy makers responded....
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