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...Another is Ron Peri, a former tech executive who runs The Gathering USA, an evangelical Christian ministry. The other three are attorneys and DeSantis allies....
...Capote vs The Swans, the second instalment in Ryan Murphy’s Feud anthology, looks at how the writer-cum-raconteur ruffled the feathers of the very elite whose acceptance he so desperately craved....
...The legal activists have been encouraged by a landmark case in 2022, West Virginia vs EPA, in which the Supreme Court curtailed the agency’s ability to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants....
...If it happens, Tesla will be five times bigger than all the Texas-incorporated Russell 3000 stocks put together, FTAlphaville’s Bryce Elder adds.)...
...In 2023, 87 ETF providers raised fees on 463 US-listed ETFs vs 64 who imposed cuts....
...This ~$1B capex was introduced into the formal plan with 3Q23 earnings when the five-year capital program increased +$2B to $16-17B 2024-2028 vs $14-15B 2023-2027....
...While some overwrite on the S&P 500® index, others overwrite on the Russell 2000 or Nasdaq 100 indices, or even single stocks and sectors (not surprisingly, mega-cap Tech buy-write funds have been particularly...
...The UK approach to Northern Ireland is one of casual political vandalism GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS OF THE USA US constitution and federalism Donald Trump asks US Supreme Court to put presidential immunity...
...I’m in awe of Washington, this handsome city, the cultural capital of the USA. It holds the everlasting promise of the American dream....
...In March 2023 the iShares ESG Aware MSCI USA ETF (ESGU) haemorrhaged $3.9bn in one day. On the same day the iShares MSCI USA Quality Factor ETF (QUAL) saw a $4.8bn jump in net inflows....
...Asked about the congressional turmoil in Washington where radical Republicans earlier this month rejected funding for Ukraine, Shmyhal conceded “this political shaking inside the USA is a big concern”....
...For the swooning faithful, all the high-and-mighty talk of the rule of law is of little account compared with the hot flush, the racing pulse, the pure yee-haw MAGA-hellion USA high they get from glowing...
...But I have found London to be an excellent perch this week for thinking about Chapter Four of the Donald Trump vs Judiciary saga, because another version of the very same story is unfolding, far from Washington...
...That sent the S&P 500 down 1 per cent, and the small-cap Russell 2000 down 4 per cent. Futures markets now price in fewer than four 25bp interest rate cuts in 2024, down from five a week ago....
...The PredictIt legal case is known as Clarke vs CFTC. Clarke is Kevin Clarke, 31, a PredictIt trader and former competitive debater and debate coach....
...He makes a distinction between rival vs non-rival goods (whether one person’s consumption of a good prevents someone else from consuming it, eg, newspapers on a newspaper stand) and excludable vs non-excludable...
...But to say there are hundreds of companies in the Russell 3000 that are [wildly overvalued] strains credulity for me....
...A similar notion was suggested in the 1998 case of US vs Microsoft, which suggested the group should be redivided into Microsoft and Windows....
...There’s a red-vs-blue angle here, too....
...Join FT journalists, Martin Wolf and Alec Russell, as well as, expert guests on January 24 1pm GMT for a subscriber-exclusive webinar. Register for free here....
...As this underpins sustained wage growth and tax revenues, it feeds us-vs-them politics, making reform harder. The upshot is an erosion in underlying growth....
...And, since Marbury vs. Madison (1803) the Constitution is what the Supreme Court says it is. These unelected, unaccountable judges, with tenure for life, in effect wield ultimate power....
...In today’s newsletter: Kirkland vs Paul Weiss Apollo gets in on the accounting game Retail investors back Buffett Paul Weiss pilfers Kirkland’s private equity ranks Earlier this month, highflying private...
...This illustration of SBC expense since 2010, in a separate June 16 note from the same team, nicely shows the increasing importance of SBC for Russell 3000 companies: US companies have only been required...
...Such is his hold over the style of politics in the USA today. We hear [Nikki] Haley talk about a competence test for leaders....
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