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...His Lily of the Valley designs are exclusive to the V&A, as are the giclée prints of illustrations by Beatrix Potter and Edward Lear....
...Then, the FT’s wine columnist Jancis Robinson teaches us about the world of wine....
...In February 2023, Home will host an evening event at the V&A museum as part of its Friday Late series; Mckenzie is also launching a show at Carl Freedman Gallery in Margate, where Tracey Emin recently staged...
...The evening auction of modern art made HK$485.4m (US$62.3m, HK$580.2m with fees), below presale estimates, while contemporary art made a similar amount, just within expectations, of HK$490.4m (US$63m, HK...
...The Peterson Institute has, interestingly, looked at Operation Warp Speed as a model. The prevailing narrative is that the US has not been all that great at managing the pandemic....
...Launched at the start of 2020, the company has framed works by Banksy, Tracey Emin, Terry Frost and Oskar Kokoschka....
...The US president, however, received a boost on Thursday after the US commerce department reported that gross domestic product grew at an annualised rate of 33.1 per cent in the third quarter, reflecting...
...Dana Peterson, an economist at Citigroup, agreed that the “fear factor is really going to matter” as countries lift restrictions....
...“I am not convinced that we are going to have a V-shaped recovery,” he said. “I think it will be more like a U. The key thing is to shorten the lower part of the U . . ....
...“We have to face the hard reality we’re not going to have a V-shaped recovery,” he said....
...The US Federal Reserve held $3.34tn-worth of US Treasuries as of April 1, making it by far the world’s biggest holder of government debt....
...to the “evolving risks” to the US economy posed by the spread of coronavirus....
...US president Donald Trump said Iran appeared to be responsible, while European powers said that they were still assessing the situation. (chart via the FT)....
...(FT, Jama, Peterson-Kaiser, New York Times) Angst over asbestos Campaigners in the UK, US, Italy, Australia and New Zealand have been asking questions about the link between asbestos water pipes and disease...
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...Liikanen remains a probable alternative and would also be a good leader for the ECB for many of the same reasons as V. de Galhau....
...Le Nôtre’s great gardens include many V-words, words such as Versailles or Vaux le Vicomte....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College I expect inflation to rise towards 3% in 2017 was import prices rise....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...Adam Posen, president, Peterson Institute for International Economics By 0.75-1.0 per cent (real yoy)....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...But the probability must be that Brexit will make us worse off....
...Only Mr Darin has been charged in the investigation, by US authorities. Mr Darin has not yet been arraigned in the US....
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