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...Marina became the first person from her community ever elected to the federal senate and built support for sustainable development in the Amazon region....
...Trump, before being elected in Arkansas as the youngest governor in the US....
...Its $440bn credit arm makes more business loans than some midsize banks, making it not so much an investment outfit as an alternative financial system....
...“I flew down to Arkansas really out of curiosity. I thought it might just be a one-day field trip,” she says....
...Federal Reserve chair Jay Powell, World Trade Organization head Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey are among the top drawer list of speakers....
...series hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas....
...Mendy Hughes, a Walmart worker from Melbourne, Arkansas, earns $11.62 an hour, a wage so low that she is forced to live off baked potatoes and TV dinners....
...The quickest path to make sure that banks keep credit lines open, runs through the Federal Reserve....
...This month the Stoxx Europe 600 Banks index and the Dow Jones Bank Index of US lenders have each lost more than 40 per cent, while the cost of insuring bank debt through credit default swaps has soared....
...Relative forward P/E of software v semis, commercial & professional services v capital goods and C&P v transportation Bank of England stuck on hold — On Thursday there was consensus among UK policymakers...
...On Friday the Trump administration issued a draft federal rule that would prohibit healthcare providers that receive federal funding from referring women elsewhere for abortions....
...Tomorrow markets will be scrutinising the Federal Reserve meeting minutes for January. Investors anticipate discussion about when the balance sheet contraction halts....
...Joseph Simons, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, has pledged “vigorous” antitrust enforcement, including hearings later this year on competition and consumer protection....
...Liikanen remains a probable alternative and would also be a good leader for the ECB for many of the same reasons as V. de Galhau....
...A halt to new credit is bad but the flight of pre-existing debt is worse. It also helps isolate public finances from private instability....
...Mr Salmond insists that Westminster politicians are bluffing when they say they will block a formal currency union....
...(Wall Street Journal) Markets: Stocks and commodities rallied as the recent market fretting over reduced Federal Reserve stimulus and a credit crunch in China continued to fade....
...One bank named at the top here (the case was filed in the US District Court, Central District of California) is the then-named Western Corporate Federal Credit Union, which was taken over by regulators in...
...- Elon Musk v John Broder continues. - Scott Adams on robots. - Further, further further reading....
...“You’ve got to give him a lot of credit for making difficult decisions,” says Mr Cockrell. “He tries to consider the human component and emotional side of decisions....
...Title V of the Budget Control Act details reductions to federal student loan grants, subsidised loans for graduate students, and financial incentives to pay loans early. 4. Stimulus supporters....
...Gallo, United States v. Gioia, United States v. Messina and United States v....
...Revising forecasts down for the first time since 2009, Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve chairman, told Congress last week that the US outlook was “unusually uncertain”....
...Meanwhile, Marion Berry became the second Democratic Arkansas congressman in a month to announce he would retire rather than seek re-election....
...Sergio J V Gasparian, Sao Paulo, Brazil DT: No I don’t think that in the coming 2-3 years emerging economies will need to withstand a serious debt crisis....
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