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Pick a Labour chancellor, any Labour chancellor, from Stafford Cripps to Alistair Darling. Now imagine the jeers, the jibes, the public derision they would endure after confessing in parliament to racking up a budget deficit of almost £400bn, total debt of more than £2tn and the sharpest dive in GDP…
The holiday seasons is upon us and with that comes stress, anxiety, and the airing of grievances. And this year is worse. Instead of watching a yule log smolder in a warm hearth, were all stuck in our homes watching the world burn. Try this interactive dumpster fire instead of…
image captionMessages were daubed in white on the sides of the car A car has been driven into the gates of Angela Merkel’s Federal Chancellery building in Berlin, German police say. No casualties were reported and the background to the incident was unclear. However, the car had messages daubed in…
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election not once, not twice, but approximately 425 times give or take a few. In reality, they only won once, but every day since their victory was called on Nov. 7, Donald Trump has denied it, refused to concede, begged key battleground…
Everything’s getting more and more official by the day. Late on Monday, just a few short hours after Donald Trump accepted a formal U.S. presidency transition, “recommending his team do what needs to be done” while continuing to pledge his quest to contest the election result, President-elect Joe Biden took…
Virginia law forbids governors from seeking consecutive terms. The outgoing governor, Democrat Ralph Northam, served as Mr. McAuliffes lieutenant governor and in February 2019 was ensnared in a cascading scandal when he apologized for, then later denied, posing in blackface in a photograph that appeared in his medical school yearbook.…
One particularly interesting area to watch will be the relationship between fiscal policy the power to tax and spend, soon to be partly under Ms. Yellens stewardship and her former domain of monetary policy, the power to adjust the supply of money. Those lines have become more blurred this year.…
* Turkish banks rally over 2% * Rand, rouble, zloty all extend gains * Global markets eye Biden transition * Ivory Coast launches Eurobond sale Nov 24 (Reuters) – U.S. dollar weakness lifted most emerging market currencies on Tuesday as investors looked to U.S. politics and progress on COVID-19 vaccines,…
