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...At his last press conference, in December, Powell said, “We don’t think about politics”....
...This year is going to be a highly consequential year for the Fed and for monetary policy, and we’re all of us very buckled down, focused on doing our jobs.”...
...“We’re ambitious to create a new kind of sports brand; we spend 50 days a year in the lab with our teams,” says Allemann....
...Linda Shelton, executive director of New York’s Joyce Theatre, said Herbert went the extra mile for her and others in the dance world....
...Roberts picks the fast-rising American Ben Shelton (aged 20), also playing his first Wimbledon this year: “I feel like he should be good on grass....
...Chris Shelton, head of the Communications Workers of America, the union that represents roughly half a million digital workers....
...We are not just observers: we constantly attribute meaning to phenomena and imagine what will happen next in order to make cognitive sense of the world....
...“In the first conversation [with Botín] I indicated my strong conviction that in a voluntary resignation by an employee like Mr Orcel, we would apply our rules strictly as it would be a very public event...
...So obviously we want to get it done, but we’re, you know, we’re not going to bring it up until we have the votes to confirm.”...
...As Yang Jian explains: “In our art universities now, we spend over half our time studying art history and we probably know more about western art than we do our own tradition . . . young artists who have...
...“This decision was non-negotiable and we did not negotiate.” Additional reporting by Stephen Morris and Owen Walker...
...Her friend Jayne Shelton, a retired local government official, added: “The deference that our parents and grandparents had is not there any more....
...(FT) Why Inflation could be on the way back Are we about to move into a new era of unexpectedly high inflation rather than the below-target inflation we are used to, Martin Wolf asks....
...If Ms Shelton is confirmed, it would allow Mr Trump to leave his imprint on the US central bank before he leaves the White House in January....
...“We are fairly optimistic that by the time we get into the summer and fall of this year, we are going to be in a much different economic environment than we are today,” said Ken Taubes, chief investment...
...“It would be anathema to me to suggest that we devalue our money to gain a trade advantage,” said Ms Shelton....
...Further reading Russia’s rookie investors fuel stock market trading boom Economic data Flash PMIs across Europe on Friday will be the data point to watch this week, when we get a chance to see how services...
...Mr Mnuchin repeated this view on Monday when he told reporters “we’re going to make sure that we don’t pay people more money to stay home than go to work”....
...Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s controversial nomination of Judy Shelton to the Fed board is faltering....
...(FT, Barron’s) What else we’re reading The last oil frontier Oil exploration is a risky, time-consuming and expensive endeavour....
...Meanwhile, two Republican Senators said they would oppose Judy Shelton, Donald Trump’s nominee to the Fed’s board....
...Viet Shelton, an analyst at Zillow, agrees: “The last housing bubble burst was all about excess credit, excess homeowners, excess building — today we have none of that.”...
...Ms Shelton questioned the Fed’s basic role in an interview with the FT last year....
...Ms Shelton said. “If the success of capitalism depends on someone being smart enough to know what the rate should be on everything . . . we’re doomed....
...We have watched Venezuela slide into ever greater economic disaster as Hugo Chávez and then Nicolás Maduro set the prices of basic food stuffs with disastrous consequences; and yet our governments (or their...
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