The New Yorker
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Ronan Farrow, Jane Mayer
– Sep 23, 4:49 PM
As Senate Republicans press for a swift vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats are investigating a new allegation of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh. The claim dates to the 1983-84…
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has verbally resigned to Chief of Staff John Kelly in anticipation of being fired by President Trump, according to a source with direct knowledge. Per a source close to Rosenstein: “He's expecting to be…
The Financial Times
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John Authers and Brooke Fox
– Sep 23, 9:00 PM
Ten years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers, are we any safer? The answer, at best, is only a qualified “yes”. Excessive leverage in the banking systems of the US and the eurozone drove that crisis. Those risks have reduced…
The Financial Times
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Review by Chris Giles
– Sep 23, 9:00 PM
There is an urgent need for a galvanising economic manifesto for the new left in British politics. The UK economy has performed poorly since the global financial crisis a decade ago, with stagnant real wages, feeble productivity growth, large cuts…
The Financial Times
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George Magnus
– Sep 24, 1:26 AM
According to recent surveys, investors say the biggest risk they see is the trade war. Generally, financial markets do not reflect this, perhaps because the economic impact so far is not that big, and the earnings and revenue effects even less.
