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...Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World, by Rana Foroohar, Crown $30, 400 pages Richard Baldwin is a professor of international economics and editor-in-chief of CEPR’s policy portal VoxEU.org...
...Central banks in the region are considering raising interest rates in response to the currency moves. 4....
...The UAW claims 400,000 members in a range of industries, a quarter of the peak of 1.5mn in 1979. Just under 150,000 of those members work at one of the traditional big three carmakers....
...Held in the Palace of Fine Arts, a vast, Roman-looking rotunda in the ritzy Marina district, it lined up impressive backers. Over $400,000 was up for grabs in a hackathon....
...He didn't really want to be extradited to the United States, but I think after a short period in jail in the Bahamas that idea became a little bit more appealing to him. He was flown to the US....
...This basic approach seems appropriate so long as the default reflects a political impasse and not any underlying inability of the United States to meet its obligations, so that all payments on defaulted...
...After Donald Trump entered the White House in January 2017, the number soared to 400. That political swing became even more vivid in 2020....
...In November, the venerated Roman house will open in the City of Lights: the Bulgari Hôtel Paris has (naturally) a mint location on the Avenue Georges V – in the coveted Triangle d’Or – and its usual architectural...
...He is mending fences with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, the three Arab states that blockaded his Gulf ally Qatar in 2017-20 — and who he believes were part of a conspiracy to topple him...
...of doses from the federal government was set to drop to 250,00 next week from 300,000 previously....
...New York state on Saturday recorded more than 1,000 cases of Covid-19 in a day for the first time since mid-May, while authorities in countries including Australia and Vietnam battled rising infections....
...Most interestingly, they got creative with money: having lost access to the country’s currency, they minted their own....
...The 67-year-old López Obrador “is perhaps the top exponent in Latin America of what I call ‘ideological necrophilia’ — a passionate attraction to ideas and ideologies which have been tried and tested, and...
...They have overtaken New York as the states with the most infections since the pandemic began, with more than 400,000 cases each....
...Mr Maduro’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) and its allies secured 67.6 per cent of the vote for the National Assembly, according to figures from the government-appointed National Electoral Council...
...In California, America’s most populous state and a big driver of the US economy, Democratic governor Gavin Newsom last week ordered a shutdown of all bars across the state, and banned indoor operations for...
...Having worked or shown in Europe in recent years, many of America’s top designers are back on their home turf and have returned to find their brands and businesses diminished, their market share ceded to...
...Read more The coronavirus risks the return of currency wars: but US monetary easing should be done with Japan and the eurozone and not to them, argues Robin Harding in the FT....
...Edward Luce responds Rana, you’re right that I live in a nice home in one of America’s most beautiful neighbourhoods....
...In today’s world, few mourn the end of the parade: outside hold-outs such as the UK and Gulf states, the institution of royalty has passed its sell-by date....
...The German chemicals and pharmaceuticals company said on Wednesday that “lawsuits from approximately 42,700 plaintiffs had been served in the United States in connection with the crop protection product...
...According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the eruption destroyed 716 dwellings and released 1bn cubic yards of lava....
...$450,000 A 400 sq ft, one-bedroom floating home $1.3m A three-bedroom, two-bathroom home of 1,400 sq ft over three floors $2m A three-bedroom home over more than 2,500 sq ft at the end of a dock and with...
...Oil and gas exports accounted for 31 per cent of government revenue and 61 per cent of foreign currency earnings in 2017, but that dipped to 23.5 per cent and 30 per cent respectively last year, Mr Nahavandian...
...It seems to be conflating the challenges of global remittances with those of financial services for the poor in the United States....
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