Hints and tips:
...But it takes short-sighted self-interest to a whole new level for Poland et al to threaten to smash apart the mechanisms of the single market and the EU’s common trade policy because of the short-term impact...
...It would have been easy to play to a liberal crowd by just focusing on the Bush and Trump administrations’ coziness with the industry....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...The Syria operation was launched after it became clear that the Obama administration would not intervene to topple Bashar al-Assad....
...So they have a lot of embarrassing things about Putin and Obama wound up not publishing it, if I remember rightly. Something to that effect....
...During the Ebola outbreak in 2014, when Obama’s administration sent 3,000 US military personnel to Africa to fight the epidemic, the CDC held a daily briefing about the state of progress....
...This is one reason it’s been relatively easily for the Trump administration to roll back some of Dodd-Frank — there were plenty of people on both the right and the left who didn’t like it....
...I guess it will need an increased ESG focus on Russia and sanctions, or a more active move by the US Treasury et al to question Russian index inclusion and bring a more fundamental re-assessment of Russian...
...This was disproved by the trial of US v Zarrab et al, in which a Turkish banker and a gold trader were convicted of laundering Iranian oil and gas revenues....
...Scott Pruitt, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency, has made clear that he wants to run the regulator in a more business-friendly way than under the Obama administration....
...The message from the Trump administration was that it is still tough on Russia, taking on the baton from the Obama administration, and still supportive of Ukraine....
...The European economy, meanwhile, is in recovery mode, as reflected by a spate of strong first-quarter real GDP prints posted this week across emerging Europe in Poland, Hungary, Romania et al....
...The European economy, meanwhile, is in recovery mode, as reflected by a spate of strong first quarter real GDP prints posted this week across Emerging Europe in Poland, Hungary, Romania, et al....
...During the campaign, Mr Trump vowed to appoint justices who would overturn the 1973 Roe v Wade abortion rights decision....
...Two successive administrations, under presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama, have largely ignored flex-fuel vehicles....
...Summers et al adjusted for this and still found that the government’s borrowing added a lot more supply to the market than the Fed brought onto its balance sheet....
...Statistical studies (see for example Gadea et al) confirm that there has been no significant break in the behaviour of volatility in the five year period since 2008, compared to that experienced during GM...
...Unlike Greece et al, it does not appear that Russia’s sovereign balance sheet has had to bear much of the cost of the event, which seems to have been farmed out to various oligarchs with blue chip corporates...
...John Kerry, the US secretary of state, on Sunday strengthened the case for military action against Bashar al-Assad’s regime after announcing that tests conducted on gas attacks in Syria had proved positive...
...Only a few months ago, our findings on slow recoveries from financial crises was accused as providing a rationale for the deep recession and weak economy the Obama administration has faced since 2007....
...Now here he is on a blast from the past… It’s Allied Bank International v Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago et al....
...It is thus exceptionally hard for Boehner et. al. to argue that they have a significant mandate for dramatic spending cuts and a rejection of any tax rises....
...Overall, Koo thinks that barring any reckless experiments in monetary policy, Abe et al might actually be able to pull Japan out of its twenty year balance sheet recession....
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...Etonians, Harvards et al need to strike a fine balance. They cannot mention their schools, because it might annoy voters. Rather, they must reassure the public by signalling their affiliations....
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