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...Britain’s export licence deferral system was set up in 1952 precisely to halt the exodus to the US of great art....
...Between 2019 and 2022, the number of patrons at the V&A grew by 11 per cent whereas at the Royal Academy, where private money is critical due to the lack of any government funding, there was a 45 per cent...
...Perhaps alarmingly, and very much out of line with that rapid recovery in US stock markets, faith in the longed-for V has been ebbing....
...As Wolfgang Eder, chief executive of Voestalpine, a speciality steel group with operations in Mexico, put it: “Over the past decades the US has benefited more from free trade than any other nation in the...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...The fledgling fund management sector has been hard hit by the collapse of equity markets and related disasters, including the fraudulent “Ponzi” scheme run by US broker Bernard Madoff....
...Mr Ruiz reacted with dismay. “How in the hell can anyone conclude that our company is worth 40 per cent less today than it was a few weeks ago?” he asked....
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