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...Hello from Dubai’s sun-baked Expo City, where the United Arab Emirates’ leader Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan has just announced that his nation will put $30bn into a new fund that will invest in “global...
...Invest shrewdly, and avoid toxic people and toxic activities, and try and keep learning all your life, et cetera et cetera. And do a lot of deferred gratification because you prefer life that way....
...(Gillian Tett and Patrick Temple-West) Smart Read If you want a striking (and depressing) sign of how aid priorities are being undercut by the global economic problems, take note of this piece: it tartly...
...His name is Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan . . . He is one of the most powerful men on Earth, and yet the ruler of the United Arab Emirates maintains a relatively low profile on the world stage....
...Now see the many state attorneys-general (acolytes, no doubt of Alito et. al.) who want to sanction corporations that adopt ESG....
...It comes iced, nitro (cold brew made with nitrogen gas for an ultra-smooth texture) or hot, with all of the usual suspects represented: macchiato, cappuccino, cortadito et al....
...On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a scathing 25-page white paper entitled “The state of Democracy in the United States”, which almost exclusively cited American sources on money’s grip over US...
...really do want to be part of Russia, et cetera....
...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...The fact that the United States of America is now saying loudly, to the whole world, climate is important. A lot that’s being done, even today, is being done at the subnational level....
...The same, of course, applies to Le Pen et al in Europe. I don’t know Israel nearly well enough to prescribe a solution to the deep-seated Palestinian-Israeli crisis....
...As Richard Masters, chief executive of the English Premier League, quipped this week, at least England is “confident” of a winner in this one after Manchester United’s underwhelming penalty shootout loss...
...“Five years ago we had zero solar power, and now we are the third-largest utility company owner of solar in the United States and very soon we will be the second-largest,” Mr Farrell told the Financial Times...
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...The case, Brown et al. vs USA Taekwondo et al., deals with sexual abuse suffered by three young former Olympic hopefuls in taekwondo, whose coach was convicted and sent to prison in 2015....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...Domestic projects, including his own home, come under the spotlight, as does London’s Design Museum – a temple to minimalist chic....
...(Patrick Temple-West) UN summit seeks hope amid grim emissions numbers Climate activist Greta Thunberg may have just arrived, but the 2019 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (better...
...Certainly, the food remains classic and lush (guinea hen with truffles and Madeira et al), and the prices remain high to the point of becoming a sort of performance art....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Supreme Court ruled to end the separation of students by race in the landmark Brown v Board of Education case in 1954....
...Now: imagine you are the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America. For "cobalt-rich ore," substitute "dollars," or "dollar-denominated assets," or perhaps just "Treasuries."...
...But 15 of the 34 client names listed in the documents in relation to those payments are names of entities/companies that had never heard of Al Alam....
...Let someone else take care of it. And we have evidence that this is starting to happen in the United States as well. That's right....
...In countries with a large and influential NOC, “there is a strong risk of the company becoming a state-within-a-state and executing a sort of shadow fiscal policy,” the institute points out....
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