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...What are they going to do about the health service? How are they going to fund social care? Are they going to be able to build lots more houses? Where? Are we going to have to raise taxes? And where?...
...Smoke and Ashes: A Writer’s Journey Through Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh (John Murray Press/Farrar Straus & Giroux)A sweeping, and personal, account of the immense effect the opium trade has...
...For Newman, the result has been a weird trade-off....
...So, with the Secretaries of State for Business and Trade and Energy Security and Net Zero, I am today publishing those plans....
...(Kenza Bryan) Smart reads West Virginia senator Joe Manchin has dropped his controversial effort to include provisions to speed up energy permitting approvals within a vital bill to extend US government...
...Exchange Commission, Department of Justice and in the White House, there is a swing away from consumer welfare to the national wellbeing of citizens....
...Some 20-plus Rising Stars producers made their West End debuts and had a small taste of the challenges Burns faces when staging and marketing a big production....
...Blackstone could raise up to $30bn for a flagship fund this year, while Carlyle and Apollo could raise $27bn and $25bn for each of their big 2022 funds, according to PitchBook....
...The compromise will have to satisfy both the demands of the Democratic party’s progressives in the House of Representatives, as well as two conservative Democratic senators, Joe Manchin of West Virginia...
...Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, released a statement late on Wednesday calling the $3.5tn spending plan on America’s social safety net “fiscal insanity”....
...The Atlantic Coast natural gas pipeline out of West Virginia bit the dust last year after a protracted legal battle....
...That wouldn’t normally be her job, but she almost alone has been able to bridge her party’s daunting divide between House progressives and key Senate centrists like West Virginia’s Joe Manchin III....
...We’re also going to fund projects in Ashton under Lyne, South Leicester, Sunderland, Doncaster, and West Leeds....
...His other firm, Partner Fund Management, which had $6bn of assets at its peak, ranked as one of the biggest hedge funds on the West Coast....
...Tax and welfare frauds deprive the public finances of vital cash....
..., Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia — will each lose one....
...independent companies with links to the steel magnate; The governor of West Virginia has filed a lawsuit against Greensill Capital and its founder, alleging it “perpetrated a continuous and profitable...
...Many of the southern and eastern European migrants are likely to move to the advanced economies of north and west Europe rather than the UK....
...Grace Ge Gabriel, Asia regional director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare, believes Beijing could make the shift from wildlife trading happen if it decided to, by including compensation for...
...What the editorial termed a “predilection” for state welfare was no such thing, given that Liverpool — once Britain’s shipping and trade capital, made rich from slavery — had experienced the precipitous...
...(FT) Africa’s cocoa farmers Ghana and Ivory Coast have accused big chocolate companies including Mars and Hershey of trying to circumvent a premium on cocoa meant to fight farmer poverty in west Africa....
...And then lastly, a federal government, a Trump administration move to disinvest public pension funds, will not allow public pension funds to invest in Chinese assets....
...The problem lies partly in Cameron’s commitment to protect education, foreign aid and health services from cuts....
...(AP, FT) FT Health relaunches Your monthly guide to the intersection of global health and finance is back....
...over chronically low pay and the declining quality of health insurance....
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