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...Hermès, L’Oréal, Dior et al sell an idea of French high-end craftsmanship that derives almost whole cloth from the 17th-century court of Versailles....
...Then the Americans came....
...If we are right that consumer spending, despite some recent softening on the margin, is still at or above trend, that is another thing for Powell et al to fret over....
...The mid 19th century saw the arrival of Italy’s big breweries — Peroni, Moretti, Poretti, Menabrea et al — as well as the grape phylloxera blight that drove demand for alternatives to wine....
...The two men — a 42-year-old product of the middle class and a 78-year-old art patron and heir of extreme wealth — are not said to be close....
...The primary driver of wealth, the primary asset on most Americans' balance sheet, is a home. Most of the ways in which Americans build wealth involves borrowing money....
...(NPR) Opinion: There is still work to be done cracking down on methane and other superpollutants (Bledsoe et al, NYT)...
...The US involvement was partly due to its enmity with Sudan’s former strongman leader Omar al-Bashir, say analysts....
...In the US, a survey by the American Pet Products Association in December found that 10 per cent of respondents got a new pet as a direct result of the pandemic....
...Et cetera, ad nauseam. The numbers seem to back up the thesis....
...Although this last theme might seem oddly non-political, that positive-affect language was a hallmark of politically left-leaning trolls in the 2016 election interference (Marcellino, Cox, et al., 2020)....
...The global community should be looking to rest, adjust or trim the ways things are, on a regular basis otherwise there will be imbalances allowing Trumps et al to garner support to deal with greater accrued...
...(FT) KKR homes in on Japan property The US private equity firm is planning to participate in a wave of transactions generated by railway companies, manufacturers and other corporations with substantial...
...Sign up and tune in tomorrow, August 5, from 12-1pm ET here. Biden’s plan for US power generation . . . Joe Biden wants to cut carbon out of American electricity by 2035....
...al — arrived....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...The CDC only issued a cryptic tweet advising Americans to: “Follow the instructions on the product label.” “I can’t even get my calls returned,” says Garrett....
...It came as little surprise that Sanders did relatively well this week in Washington State, home to Seattle. Much like in the first gilded age, American socialism is largely a creature of the cities....
...This finding is also in line with previous literature on the subject (Yoshikawa et al., 1995; Pras et al., 2009; Pras & Guostavino, 2010)....
...Per Starr et al., a 10 per cent increase in the number of non-competes leads to 6 per cent lower wages in states that enforce the agreements versus those that do not....
...More than a year after launching its quest for a second North American headquarters, or “HQ2”, the company has finally decided on a location for a new home....
...Even at the time of its closure in 2004, it was making more than 1m products a day. It is now the new home of TalkTalk, the first FTSE 250 business to move its head office to Greater Manchester....
...Like the pioneers with their sense of American exceptionalism, there’s a messianic fervour to California’s remaking of the world....
...Not only did he design and manufacture cheap homes with his Standard Houses Corporation but he built entire settlements in Indian Head and Suitland, Maryland....
...World Bank research by Dilip Ratha et al is clear on how migration helps economic outcomes....
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