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UP has been completely transformed, BJP rule to be remembered for suraksha, sushasan: Yogi Adityanath

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The Indian Express - 09.20.2021 Original article ›
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The chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, India's largest state with population of 250 million people talks about the establishment for the first time of the rule of law in the state. Under different state ministries since the time of Jawaharlal Nehru who was from the Allahabad region in the state, Uttar Pradesh has lacked in effective rule of law. Building of infrastructure in the state, Swacch Bharat, and the many projects of the federal government, are creating a new sense of hope for the future for the young generation.

Here the chief minister of the state says 450,000 new jobs were created and given impartially, Uttar Pradesh made a good place for investment, security with rule of law established, and good governance provided over the last 4.5 years. 

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Fears of widespread child hunger spark calls for universal free school meals in UK

  
The Guardian - 08.28.2022 Original article ›
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The Guardian looks at food poverty in the UK in 2022. About 800,000 children living in poverty in the UK do not qualify for free school meals. The rise in the price cap for electricity and gas this winter to 3549 pounds for the year from October means many homes will have to choose between heating and food. Energy price regulator Ofgem has allowed a 80% rise in the UK energy price cap. In Britain only children whose parents earn less than 7400 pounds are eligible after year 2 of school.

The energy price jump in UK of this type is unusual for the major countries of Europe. In France the price of energy is capped and Germany offers  financial support for energy bills for low income people. 

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The Great Disconnect: Why Voters Feel One Way About the Economy but Act Differently

  
NYTimes.com - 11.20.2023 Original article ›
Claire Cain Miller, Francesca Paris
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Claire Cain Miller of NYT looks at how Americans feel about the economy. It is shaped mainly by the cost of living crisis. Over half of Americans feel housing is unaffordable. And most Americans see prices as way too high at retail stores, for food and clothing, and do not see that president Biden has helped increase their wages through his support for the labor movement. Another aspect of this is that even though Biden has brought changes in wages and reduced inflation to 2-3% from 10%, the American people are feeling the effects of three decades of neglect of infrastructure, public services, and manufacturing under prevailing free market economic theory; that caused the disruption in living standards with the 2009 financial crisis, and the shift of manufacturing to China that devastated whole communities.

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WATCH: India's Prime Minister Modi delivers remarks at joint meeting of Congress

  
PBS NewsHour - 06.22.2023 Original article ›
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A key part of Modi's address was about meeting the needs of 1.4 billion people in a way that was never met before for hundreds of years. Providing health coverage to something like the whole population of South America. Putting money directly in the bank accounts of something like the whole population of North America. How do you govern a country with 2500 parties and 22 parties governing in different states of the Union? How do you deal with a country with 13 major languages? The challenges are unprecedented and even more to ensure proper delivery of services to the entire population, that has never happened before. It truly is an astounding democracy and has been for 75 years- the only way to know is to go travel throughout India.

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In hopeful moment, storm clouds over Biden economy appear to lift

  
Washington Post - 07.28.2023 Original article ›
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"My economic plan is working and we are just getting started," says president Biden about the US economy as it registers growth of 2.4% in the second quarter. Inflation is cut to 3% from about 9% last year. Even US central bank Fed increases in rates by 5 percentage points since March 22 at consecutive bank meetings has not slowed down the US economy enough. Biden says there is nothing accidental about this. Biden pushed investment in the US. Business investment increased by 56% in the last quarter accounting for a third of the economic growth, much of it in infrastructure, in bridges and roads, in manufacturing plants. Biden administration has allocated $299 billion in infrastructure funding for projects, another $503 billion is done by private investment. And more is coming down the pipeline.

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Donald Trump Poised to Put Pressure on Nafta

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WSJ - 11.21.2016 Original article ›
William Mauldin, David Luhnow
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Instead of killing the NAFTA trade agreement Trump and his advisors prefer renegotiating the treaty. Priorities for the Trump administration are reducing the U.S. deficit with Mexico of $61 billion. Trade with Mexico and Canada is worth $1.1 trillion and the complex supply chains works such that product components cross borders more than once to become finished products. Mexico promotes its auto and other industries as duty free access to the U.S. for foreign investment. Special tariffs would reduce the trade deficit with Mexico and firms that moved production to Mexico would pay additional taxes. A provision that allows Mexican and Canadian companies to challenge U.S. regulations would also be removed. Rep. Brad Sherman (Democrat) says he supports the renegotiation so that duties of 4% are imposed to reduce the deficit to $25 billion.

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Opinion | The Tories Will Lose the Election. But What Will Labour Win?

  
NYTimes.com - 05.30.2024 Original article ›
David Wallace Wells
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Britain turns to Labour as the lead for Labour party increases to 27 points after Sunak announces the general election will be held on July 4, 2024. What would a Starmer administration look like and how will it meet the expectations of Britain for generational change after the failure of Brexit, and 14 years of austerity policies that failed to invest in Britain and failed to deliver on infrastructure and housing? These are questions not easily answered as Britain's finances are left in a bad state by the Tories for Labour. Starmer is taking the right approach to first get a grasp of the tremendous challenges facing Labour in this situation. It was easy for Boris Johnson and the Tories to make the promises that were never kept and left the British people in the lurch.

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Germany: FDP hatched plan to quit ruling coalition — reports – DW – 11/16/2024

  
dw.com - 11.16.2024 Original article ›
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Lindner met with senior FDP leaders in Potsdam to plan breaking away from the Scholz government 2 months before it happened on November 5. Lindner was fired that day by Scholz after making unacceptable demands including scrapping climate action targets, and reducing investments in infrastructure. The supplementary budget passed by Scholz was to reidirect 60 billion euros of unspend Covid money to needed infrastructure and climate action projects. The German Constitutional Court declared it unconstitutional. 

The FDP is polling 4% which means it is headed to the situation a decade back where it had no seats in parliament. Which explains Lindner's actions seen as a betrayal by the Scholz government. The greens had advocated investment 4 years back which never happened because of Lindner and FDP opposition hurting the German economy's resilience.

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Election 2024 live updates: Biden meets with Congressional Black Caucus

  
Washington Post - 07.09.2024 Original article ›
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The Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and Deputy Chair, Nanette Baragan, Adriano Espaillat ,say "we stand with president Joe Biden and vice president Kamala Harris." There are 43 members in that group. Biden also had a good conversation Monday night with 60 members of the CBC Congressional Black Caucus. The CBC offered full support to Biden and Harris and the CBC called for efforts to invest in housing and invest in the Black Community. Every member of CBC praised Biden. Senator Patty Murray, president pro tempore of the Senate, asked Biden to be more forceful and energetic- "There is such a case to be prosecuted against Trump, president Biden has to lead the charge making that case." She also praised Biden for leading a "historic" first term.

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Read: Transcript of Kamala Harris’ exclusive solo MSNBC interview with Stephanie Ruhle

  
MSNBC.com - 09.26.2024 Original article ›
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Full transcript of Kamala Harris Interview on MSNBC with Stephanie Ruhle on September 25, 2024, the same day when she outlined her Economic Plan for the next 4 years at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh is where the US steel industry was built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Harris outlined a plan that would help rebuild American industry including the steel industry and other key industries of the future, in Chips and Science, in a partnership of the government with the private sector to compete with China and the European Union. 

She looked back to the ambition and vision of another era and to bring it back today-the Transcontinental Railroad under Lincoln, the Interstate Highway System under Eisenhower, the Space Endeavor under John F. Kennedy.

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US Open 2024: Dan Evans beats Karen Khachanov in New York's longest match

  
BBC Sport - 08.28.2024 Original article ›
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The longest US Open Tennis match? 5 hours and 35 minutes between Dan Evans of the US and Karen Khachanov of Russia just yesterday August 26, 2024. The first three sets were tie breakers. Dan Evans was down 0-4 in the fifth set and came out to win it 6-4. At 4 down he thought he was out and just kept on fighting. Fans gave a rousing ovation. Evans says "it was one hell of a match. I just want to go to bed." 

  • Set 1 - 68 minutes

  • Set 2 - 67 minutes

  • Set 3 - 72 minutes

  • Set 4 - 67 minutes

  • Set 5 - 61 minutes

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Djokovic wins Olympic gold to complete career Golden Slam

  
France 24 - 08.04.2024 Original article ›
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Djokovic who struggled with a knee injury and pain put every effort he could muster into his game. He won over young Spanish player Alcaraz in 2 tiebreakers 7-6, 7-6. The injury happened for a miniscus tear during his quarterfinals game with Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece. He had only 24 hours to recover before the semifinals game against Italy's Mussetti and seemed very worried. It shows the effort put into the games by athletes in the face of adversity. In cycling overcoming tire punctures and precious seconds, in rowing 0.18 seconds separating Netherlands women's scull quad from the second place,  injuries of women's rower Brayshaw in a horse riding accident and a British rower who came back from a surgery after a bike accident to win gold.

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Not There Yet on Equal Opportunity

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Wall Street Journal - 10.21.2015 Original article ›
William Galston, William, Galston
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Galston cites a Federal Reserve Board of Chicago 2014 study showing setbacks for black people in achieving improvement in income status. Even for children born into middle income black families about 55% are expected to fall below middle income status compared to 36% for children of white middle income families. The problem is not just the gap as Galston points out but what it says for the declining income mobility for the white middle class when 36% are likely to see declining status and prospect for the future, and 23% will see no improvement. Overall it shows a lack of income and social mobility for whites and minorities alike compared to the past improvements since the 1960's, not a bright prospect and less hope for the future the way things are, and why so many of the establishment candidates and existing policies are being questioned by voters.
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Pressure Grows on China to Spur Domestic Consumption

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Wall Street Journal - 08.07.2011 Original article ›
Lingling Wei, Lingling, Wei, Andrew Browne, Andrew, Browne

'A performance you could hang in the Louvre': The world's press on PSG’s Champions League win

  
France 24 - 06.01.2025 Original article ›
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A huge win for PSG over Inter Milan after 30 years in Champions League. See the video in FR24 as Hakimi and others excel.

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Argentina’s New President Moves Swiftly to Shake Up the Economy

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New York Times - 12.27.2015 Original article ›
Jonathan Gilbert, Jonathan, Gilbert

Puerto Rico Placed Under Bankruptcy Protection

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WSJ - 05.03.2017 Original article ›
Andrew Scurria

Fitch Warns Banks Must Raise $566 Billion in New Capital

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New York Times - 05.17.2012 Original article ›
Mark Scott, Mark, Scott

Lackluster IPO Market Flashes Warning

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Wall Street Journal - 04.01.2016 Original article ›
Corrie Driebusch, Corrie, Driebusch, Maureen Farrell, Maureen, Farrell

Romney Tempers Tax Plans

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Wall Street Journal - 09.27.2012 Original article ›
Sara Murray, Sara, Murray, Damian Paletta, Damian, Paletta

Romney Team Goes All-Out in Buckeye State

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Wall Street Journal - 10.26.2012 Original article ›
Janet Hook, Janet, Hook

Weighing Loss of Iran's Oil

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Wall Street Journal - 12.05.2011 Original article ›
Benoit Faucon, Benoit, Faucon

The Next Global Problem: Portugal

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New York Times - 04.30.2010 Original article ›
Peter Boone, Peter, Boone, Simon Johnson, Simon, Johnson
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Boone and Johnson point to the problems facing Portugal as being worse than that faced by Argentina when it defaulted on its debt in 2001. Portugal they say spent too much in recent years with the help of Euro-money letting debt rise to 78% of GDP compared to Greece's 114% of GDP and Argentina's 62% of GDP at default. The lack of the option for a necessary devaluation under the euro currency makes the situation worse. At this point the situation is simply being postponed as the European Central Bank will continue to let the governments issue bonds, which European commercial banks buy and deposit at the ECB as collateral for fresh printed money.
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Citing Growth, Fed Again Cuts Monthly Bond Purchases

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New York Times - 01.29.2014 Original article ›
Binyamin Appelbaum, Binyamin, Appelbaum
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The U.S. Fed FOMC's decision to continue tapering monthly bond purchases by $10 billion in Jan 2014.
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Economic Turbulence Chips at Support for Turkish Premier

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Wall Street Journal - 01.31.2014 Original article ›
Joe Parkinson, Joe, Parkinson

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