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...Stephanie Kelton: I think a substantial factor is the pandemic....
...Biden pledged to continue supporting Afghan forces, including apportioning $1bn to Afghanistan’s air force and delivering additional Black Hawk helicopters....
...But when the US leaves, that advantage will evaporate, notwithstanding a reported US pledge last week to provide 37 Black Hawk helicopters to the Afghan government....
...Biden has pledged to continue supporting the Afghan forces, including earmarking $1bn to Afghanistan’s air force and delivering additional Black Hawk helicopters....
...Bad news for fiscal hawks, as his successor is likely to espouse more mainstream views....
...South Asia correspondent Stephanie Findlay does a great job of explaining why it has divided opinion. Best of the rest WHAT I’VE BEEN READING ELSEWHERE Who am I prepared to kill?...
...Stephanie Williams, the acting UN envoy to Libya, said this week that the conflict had reached another “turning point”....
...Stéphanie Yon-Courtin, the MEP in charge of the report, said Brussels needs to be “more swift in tackling digital platforms”....
...Mr Acharya was considered an inflation hawk....
...China trade hawks in Washington, meanwhile, are urging Mr Trump to hold the line, despite the mounting economic and financial pressure....
...Mr Trump spoke implausibly during the 2016 campaign about paying off America’s national debt in just eight years, and went on to appoint Mick Mulvaney, a hardline deficit hawk, to be his first White House...
...Stephanie Flanders is chief market strategist for Europe at JPMorgan Asset Management...
...Stephanie Flanders, the former BBC economics editor and chair of the five-strong judging panel, described East West Street as a “stunning achievement”....
...Stephanie Flanders, chief market strategist for Europe, J P Morgan Asset Management I do not believe the MPC will raise rates in 2017....
...Hammond has shown himself to be a fiscal hawk — but a pragmatic one — where a gradual move to improving fiscal balances is preferred....
...In this, the “hawks” at the ECB who have resisted this step are right, and their more simplistic critics are wrong....
...United Technologies became the first big company to announce temporary lay-offs as a result of the shutdown, with 2,000 workers who produce the Black Hawk helicopter due to be sent on unpaid leave by Monday...
...And it marks a challenge to traditional defence hawks such as Senator John McCain, who used to dominate the party....
...Lindsey Graham and John McCain, two defence hawks, defended Barack Obama and rebuked Rand Paul, the conservative senator from Kentucky, for raising questions in his nearly 13-hour filibuster that temporarily...
...“I’m beginning to think we’re going to drift along again until the debt limit,” says Robert Bixby, executive director of the Concord Coalition, and a prominent US fiscal hawk....
...Despite a growing chorus of protests from Republican defence hawks, such as Senator John McCain, and Democrats who also oppose spending cuts, there are powerful forces pushing Republicans to hold a tough...
...Mr Obama said deficit hawks in the Republican party had reason to welcome the deal he has offered, which the president said went further than agreements in the past to right the nation’s fiscal course....
...But conservative lawmakers have recently made it clear that they were simply gearing up for another fight, and are prepared to take a hard line on the $1.2tn in cuts even amid objections from military hawks...
...However, as Stephanie Kirchgaessner points out in today’s FT, Paul can no longer be dismissed as a marginal maverick within the GOP....
...Before he won a reputation as a fiscal hawk among Republicans, however, Mr Ryan supported many of the policies that grew the deficit, including support for a prescription drug benefit and unfunded tax cuts...
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