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...Today’s top stories The US Federal Reserve announces its decision on interest rates at 2pm ET/7pm London today. Check back here for details and reaction....
...of the HMS Defender warship through Ukrainian waters....
...and an ardent defender of democracy....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...(FT) The day ahead Fed balancing act The Federal Open Market Committee meets on Tuesday and Wednesday, facing a delicate transition to the next stage of the pandemic-induced recession response....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...People in Trump’s orbit are fond of comparing coronavirus to the 9/11 attacks. George W Bush missed red flags in the build-up to al-Qaeda’s Twin Towers attacks....
...And, as lockdown measures are softened, the return of the likes of Gregg's, Starbucks et al to the UK FtG market will increase competition....
...Supreme Court ruled to end the separation of students by race in the landmark Brown v Board of Education case in 1954....
...No one would ever vote us into public office. Least of all ourselves. How, then, does a wag get elected? Ukrainians weren’t joking when they voted for a comedian....
...The emotion that has done most to swell the ranks of the populists has been a sense of unfairness — the belief that elites are indifferent to their plight. Mr Trump et al do not have any answers....
...When Carsten Schurmann sat down to hack one of the voting machines used instead of paper ballots in the state of Virginia, he used a simple online tool to discover a flaw in the machine that had been public...
...We followed along with FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Clinton and Bush et. al in their postwar course because we wanted to or had to: there was no alternative worthy of considering or competition....
...James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington et al were politicians long before presidents shouted in all caps from Twitter accounts....
...There is no iron law of history that says America is immune to a systemic decadence. Nero et al did not simply grab power for themselves....
...Rio’s public defender’s office said in a note that “living in a poor community is not enough reason” for suspicion....
...One weird consequence is that meetings of the Board’s committees on regulation, consumer protection, financial stability, et al would become open to the public....
...Mr Trump accused Mrs Clinton of not electing to change the tax code during her 30 years of public office because it did not suit her interests or the interests of billionaire friends of hers, such as George...
...(Also see Ben Carson et al on black people.)...
...The name of his game, already evident in all the earlier Whitewater et al investigations which he encouraged, was to delegitimise Mr Clinton....
...Nobody can yet know if the rise of General Sisi et al, marks the final stage in the political upheavals that began with the overthrow of President Mubarak....
...While always consumed by personal ambition and notions of greatness (he was an avid student of Lincoln, Churchill, Napoleon et al), he started musing about a legacy that would benefit his and all other children...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...of foreign policy would generate benefits if applied via a “federal format.”...
...It makes for depressing reading, not least because the Federal Reserve and the federal government, which rescued the economy, have been turned into the villains of the story....
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