James Dewar, the creator of cordite, likely helped win World War I. But why never a Nobel?
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James Dewar, the creator of cordite, likely helped win World War I. But why never a Nobel?
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If you asked any economist why a poor family with an unrepayable mountain of high-interest debt shouldn’t be offered debt cancellation, they would respond with two words: moral hazard. This is a term used in economics and finance to describe the changes that take place in an economic agent’s behaviour when they are insulated from […]
In an exclusive interview with The Cradle, Russia's top macroeconomics strategist criticizes Moscow's slow pace of financial reform and warns there will be no new global currency without Beijing.
“Regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank on Friday, in the largest U.S. bank failure since the 2008 financial crisis.” — The New York Times, 3/13/23
Look, I get it, I’m a bank, and with that comes certain expectations. That I’m good with money. That I’ll protect your money. That I know what money is and how it works. But those are outdated stereotypes. Nowadays, banks can be anything, including bad with money.
When you have the last name Bank, your future is pretty much mapped out for you. You go into the family business and do your best. And my best was mismanaging funds so egregiously that it shattered Americans’ confidence in the entire US banking system.
Kit Klarenberg exposes the US and EU's sinister meddling in Georgia's sovereignty and democracy through NGOs, propaganda and the tried and true method of sowing the seeds of discontent.
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At least three of the California governor's wine companies are held by SVB, and a bank president sits on the board of his wife’s charity.
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Vera Songwe, Chair of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility, and former Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, on the multiple crises facing African countries.
Songwe is co-chair of the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Finance for Climate Action, a member of the Global Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Songwe was previously Under-Secretary-General at the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Recognized as one of Africa’s 100 most influential people in 2022 and recipient of the All Africa Continental Leadership Award, Songwe was named one of the nominees for Forbes Africa 50 Top Women in 2023. She recently co-authored a book entitled Regional Integration in West Africa: Is There a Role for a Single Currency? She has spent the last three years championing the cause for additional liquidity for emerging markets and the need for a new global financial architecture fit for the 21st century’s development challenges.
Clube classifica mulheres como ‘a vadia’ e ‘a caçadora de atenção de homens’ e leva homens a países vulneráveis em busca de sexo.
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