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...FHLBs are not well-known, but boom or bust they work behind the scenes to meet changing member borrowing needs by expanding and contracting their balance sheets....
...This picture is not a perfect fit with what we have heard to date from corporations’ fourth-quarter earnings reports....
...Households’ consumption is contracting and is the main determinant of the recession....
...William Kovacic, a former head of the FTC now at George Washington University, says the crisis will probably magnify the debate about whether the economy depends too much on a handful of companies....
...William Rhodes, president and CEO of William R Rhodes Global Advisors, contributed to this article...
...I am very confident that the economy will be expanding over the next year rather than contracting....
...There might be big corporation tax cuts in the event of a no-deal Brexit....
...Submission, by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Lorin Stein, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99, 256 pages....
...Others point to the reduction in corporation tax from 28 to 20 per cent, giving the UK one of the lowest statutory rates in the G20....
...Good morning New York, FT ALPHAVILLE Known unknowns in the Scottish referendum polls: The spread between the yes and the no campaign is contracting....
...All of the winning metro bids included influential Qatari family businesses such as Galfar Al Misnad Engineering & Contracting, Al-Darwish Engineering, Hamad bin Khalid Contracting, Qatar Building Company...
...He reached rock bottom in his twenties, hearing voices in his head for five years and contracting a lung disease from his amphetamine binges....
...I haven’t included any from the pre-electronic days, so neither Babbage’s difference engine nor Zuse’s Z1 electro-mechanical calculator from 1939 are included, but I have to start with the family of Colossus...
...William Jennings Bryan....
...Telephones transformed corporations, and entire cities....
...Yet even after its structural upheaval, consultants Accenture found two years ago that its management tended to be conservative and mechanical....
...For example, she says that when one of the BBC’s outsourcing partners appointed a head of a call centre serving the corporation, both sides were involved in making the appointment....
..., “saw the emergence of social forces that would oppose the conception of business corporations as simply the property of contracting stockholders”....
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