Leading Stories
The Economist |
06 Dec 2019
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News
BEFORE the mid-term election of November 6th, Elijah Cummings, a congressman from Baltimore, Maryland, swore that if Democrats flipped the House of Representatives, his party would do what Republicans have refused to, and 'conduct independent, fact-based, and credible investigations of the Trump administration.'
KEVIN DRUM |
06 Dec 2019
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News
David French is a conservative lawyer who writes for National Review. Last year he wrote scathingly about both Donald Trump and the alt-right and was rewarded with a barrage of abuse, much of the worst of it aimed at his wife and children. Yesterday he wrote not about the alt-right, but about ordinary
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE |
06 Dec 2019
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News
The "caravan" that has enraged Trump is an annual event organized by People Without Borders activists. This time there are 1,500 marchers, who say they fled El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras or Nicaragua because of poverty and widespread violence by criminal gangs.
GABRIEL SHERMAN |
06 Dec 2019
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News
But as the meeting began, Donald Trump was more enraged by a crossed red line much closer to home: the F.B.I.'s raid on his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen. 'I just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys . . . it's frankly a real disgrace. It's an attack on our country in a true sense ...
Firstlinks |
03 Dec 2019
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Investing
In many global cities, housing demand has typically outstripped supply over the past decade with strong housing price inflation affecting affordability. There are marked changes occurring within the global housing markets with a defined long-term trend from home ownership to rental accommodation.
The Economist |
03 Dec 2019
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Investing
THE CELEBRATION of NATO's 70th birthday should have been a triumphal march. The average lifespan of collective-defence alliances over the past five centuries is just 15 years.
The Economist |
03 Dec 2019
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Investing
'Winter is coming,' warned a Norwegian representative on November 22nd, at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation (wto). The multilateral trading system that the wto has overseen since 1995 is about to freeze up. On December 10th two of the judges on its appellate body, which hears appeals in trade disputes and authorises sanctions against rule-breakers, will retire-and an American block on new appointments means they will not be replaced. With just one judge remaining, it will no longer be able to hear new cases.