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...martin.wolf@ft.com Follow Martin Wolf with myFT and on X Letters in response to this article: Graceful exits are rarely available to the autocrat / From Peter Slessenger, Reading, Berkshire, UK Singapore...
...What about how concentrated the stock market gains are with Nvidia, Microsoft, Google et al? I mean, shouldn’t that weigh against this rally? What about that? Katie MartinMaybe yes....
...Chief economics commentator Martin Wolf says politics is the biggest threat to China’s economic growth as it grapples with the relationship between communism and capitalism....
...Still, the study by Subramanian et al should remind us why we care about globalisation....
...Martin Spector London N2, UK...
An investment manager reviews Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity by Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng et al
...We’ve summarised the nine-page judgment (h/t Katie Martin), which can be read in full here....
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...Everyone expects Jay Powell et al to say “no rate increase today, but maybe in a month”....
...And so, you know, the main thing to understand about SVB is the S and the V — Silicon Valley, right? It’s taking deposits from Silicon Valley start-ups....
...Luxury car demand has boosted profitability at Porsche and Aston Martin....
...Recommended reading Do read my colleague, Martin Wolf, on Liz Truss’s magic potion economics....
...Truss is expected to have informal meetings with a handful of leaders on Sunday who are in the UK to pay their respects at the state funeral, including Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Canadian premier...
...On Sunday, she was due to meet Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Canada’s premier Justin Trudeau in Downing Street....
...We have our evil leader for today (you-know-who in Moscow), but do Biden, Johnson, Macron et al fit the bill as statesmen?...
...Hardison was a sculptor in the ’60s who created busts of prominent African-Americans – Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr Martin Luther King....
...That prompted a reply from Waller on Friday and a reply-to-the-reply from Summers et al this week titled, “The Fed is wrong: Lower inflation is unlikely without raising unemployment.”...
...Gain: headlong action brio and a cast of overnight Hollywood stars-to-be (McQueen, Bronson et al). Loss: length, character complexity and the loving build-up of an epic momentum....
...And generally speaking, they are the stocks that have been hardest hit by the past, probably 12 to 14 months of regulatory crackdown under Xi Jinping, who has been sort of making Alibaba, Tencent et al feel...
...In a tour de force for Scottish Ballet, however, choreographer Helen Pickett makes the case for translating Arthur Miller’s Salem-inspired The Crucible into dance — faux witches, Puritan paranoia et al....
...Meanwhile, UK prime minister Liz Truss said she was ready to take on “vested interests” to lift economic growth....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...As Lord David Pannick QC et al observed in a letter to the Times this week the doctrine of necessity requires “grave and imminent peril” to which the state in question has not contributed....
...I’ve also fallen head over heels for two-year-old Australian brand Palma Martin, which combines old world nostalgia with a modern lens....
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