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Cost of living: Argentina sees prices almost doubling last year

  
BBC News - 02.02.2023 Original article ›
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Argentina faces severe inflation of over 70%. The central bank raised its main interest rate to 75% to rein in inflation. In December 2022 the International Monetary Fund approved $6 billion, in a 30 month program that is expected to reach a total of $44 billion. The government of Pedro Sanchez has announced additional $10 billion in cost of living aid to take the total to $45 billion. It comes through reduced VAT and $200 one off payments to households making less than 27,000 euros a year.

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Epic Housing Booms Meet Their Match in Australia, Canada, New Zealand

  
WSJ - 11.06.2022 Original article ›
James Glynn
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House prices that went up by 532% in Australia, 602% in Canada since 1990 now face the prospect of decline by 20 or 30% after sharp increase in interest rates by central banks in the US and other countries. US prices were up 289% since 1990 by comparison. The Fed's moves could also lead to a decline in US home prices as mortgages become costlier. As many mortgages are not fixed in Australia and Canada the costs can increase sharply with rising rates.

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The Year Big Tech Stocks Fell From Glory

  
WSJ - 01.01.2023 Original article ›
Hannah Miao
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The old adage of people retiring well on stocks of essential household purchases held to retirement such as P&G turns out to be true. Tech stocks fell from grace in 2022. For the three worst years of the pandemic 2019 -2021 tech stocks such as Google and Amazon gained over $4 trillion. In 2022 Tech stocks lost about $3 trillion WSJ graphs show in this report. America has changed profoundly during this pandemic and frothy or frivolous anything is bad news.

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Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukraine confirms it has withdrawn from Soledar; Germany to send 14 tanks to Ukraine

  
The Guardian - 01.25.2023 Original article ›
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German chancellor Scholz finally approves 14 Leopard tanks for Ukraine. Shown here in this report is a graph of all the in service and stored Leopard tanks in individual countries of Europe including Poland, Spain and Finland which are ready to supply these tanks to Ukraine. Scholz says that he has acted with international coordination with the US. Ukraine says it needs a lot more tanks to face an expected Russian offensive and to initiate its own operations in coming months in the south and east.

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Annemiek van Vleuten claims Tour de France Femmes despite six bike changes

  
The Guardian - 07.31.2022 Original article ›
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Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vlouten wins the Tour de France Femmes in mountainous terrain on the eighth leg of the tour and overall. She says her overall training experience, Annemiek is 39 years, helped her pull ahead. Other cyclists say she was  on another planet as they felt the strain of the climb and lost pace. Only 72 hours before Annemiek was not well and felt it was hard packing her suitcase. She also changed her bike 7 times says this report. Marianne Vos led through the early 5 stages.

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Germany's Green 'superheros': Habeck and Baerbock | DW | 17.05.2022

  
DW.COM - 05.17.2022 Original article ›
Jens Thurau
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Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck are the most popular leaders in Germany today. According to a survey by Insa polling institute in May Habeck ranks first and Baerbock second in popularity among Germans. Habeck is seen as very approachable by Germans and the Greens are exceeding expectations. Baerbock has taken a valiant stand for Germany in the face of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Habeck has worked hard to reverse decades of neglect of German interests by Merkel and Schroeder and has set the foundations for German energy independence.

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Brazil Comes Out of Pandemic and Hits the Next Hardship—Inflation

  
WSJ - 10.08.2021 Original article ›
Samantha Pearson, Jeffrey T. Lewis
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Prices of gas for cooking and electricity are up 30% in Brazil in 2021 adding to the pain after the pandemic. Countries in Europe and Canada to Indonesia face much higher prices in 2021. Energy prices have jumped and supply bottlenecks have increased inflation. As more people are vaccinated the return to normal activity is also putting pressure on prices. About 72% of Brazilians have at least one dose of vaccine, higher than in the US. There is less vaccine hesitancy in Latin America and Asia.

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Hunter Biden on family tragedies and the drug addiction that nearly destroyed him

  
The Times - 04.05.2021 Original article ›
Hunter Biden
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The US president's son, Joe Biden's son, talks about his struggles after the loss of his brother to cancer in 2015, in this rare story told in The Times. Things went downhill he says after that and it was the strong support of Joe Biden and the love of his brother even after death that helped him recover. Here he tells of the love of his parents and family that helped him and the family pull together through a difficult period.

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We need funding, not medals, exhausted doctors tell France’s Macron

  
France 24 - 05.15.2020 Original article ›
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"For months I was asking for equipment," Martin Hirsch, head of the Paris hospital network tells president Macron, "and we had only enough for 3 days to fight against the coronavirus." The French president told one hospital " we undoubtedly made a mistake, we should have done it 10 years ago," as some increase in funding came only in January of 2020. France had a tenth of the intensive care beds in Germany and a far higher fatality rate says this report in France 24.

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HTLS 2020: India’s new era will be defined by the idea of decentralization

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Hindustan Times - 12.08.2020 Original article ›
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The chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Indian prime minister, says India will grow at an accelerated pace after the worst effects of the pandemic are over by 2021. The changes introduced by the prime minister in the economy should make a big difference in growth. Compared to the growth with centralization in India Acts of 1919 and 1935 when there were concerns about holding avast country together, future growth will be based on decentralization, says Bibek Debroy, who is also a member of Niti Aayog.

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Midlife health test: the 9 ways to check your brain and fitness

  
- 08.19.2022 Original article ›
Peta Bee
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An excellent midlife health test for checking physical health, mental health and cognitive health. This can be done by anyone at home and is fairly simple to take. Also suggested are exercises that may help in each of 9 categories of the test. This includes the well known standing on one leg in yoga pose, press-ups, sitting and standing from a chair, linking fingers behind your back, calf raises. And for mental health drawing a clock face with the numbers, jotting down fruits and vegetables you can in 60 seconds.

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The Best Ways to Deal With Angry Customers

  
WSJ - 05.28.2022 Original article ›
Kate Murphy
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Customer rage is on the rise especially in the airline and hospitality industry in 2022. Dealing with it the right way is so important for airlines. Listening is very important. Saying I can't do anything about it, or asking people to just put  with whatever is happening is the wrong way to handle it and can only make things worse, say experts.  Airlines that show disrespect now may find that customers remember this for a long time and avoid such discomfort in the future.

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Opinion | The Fox-Dominion Settlement

  
WSJ - 04.19.2023 Original article ›
The Editorial Board
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November 18, 2020 WSJ ran the editorial from the Editorial Board- Rage against the Voting Machine. Rejecting the claims made by Mr. Trump and others about the 2020 election. WSJ cites this editorial and an Op-ed by the CEO of Dominion on its pages that showed its position was not affected by FNN even though News Corporation is the parent company of both. And showing its independent judgement after the election of president Biden with a margin of over 7 million more votes, in rejecting such erroneous claims.

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New York Hits Covid-19 Case Record as Omicron Looms

  
WSJ - 12.17.2021 Original article ›
Julie Wernau, Aaisha Dadi Patel
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New York Governor Kathy Hochul said Friday that the state recorded 21,027 new covid cases surpassing the previous record of 19,942 set in January. Of 263,000 tested about 8% were positive- health officials say positivity rate doubled over 3 day period through Sunday.

William Lee, vp science at Helix, population-genomics company that does surveillance and testing, says Omicron will likely be the dominant strain in the US within a week. He says it is growing so much faster as a proportion of cases, than any previous variants.

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Opinion | Forget the Yacht. The Best Travel Is on Foot, Through Wilderness.

  
NYTimes.com - 09.07.2024 Original article ›
Nicholas Kristof
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Hiking and camping in the wilderness around Mount Hood, Oregon, and walking the meandering trail that connects Oregon to California along the coast. Only 15% of land is public in New York. In California, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho majority of the land is public. National Parks was an idea of Theodore Roosevelt and is the best way in America for all to find themselves equal under the canopy of nature. Under majestic fir and sequoia trees and wide skies there is a feeling of humbleness in the face of nature.

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In the UK, the multicultural model has withstood the riots

  
Le Monde.fr - 09.07.2024 Original article ›
Cecile Ducourtieux
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In a country where respect for multiculturalism has developed over its long postwar history and from the British Commonwealth of nations, this diversity as held up in the face of the riots in the UK in 2024. This followed stabbing incident at a children's party in Southport which was alleged to be the work of a migrant. This spread to many communities including Leeds and Manchester. Decades of falling living standards in towns such as Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, and Rotherham, added to these riots.

 

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Jeep Maker Stellantis Names Americas Boss as CEO

  
WSJ - 05.28.2025 Original article ›
Adrià Calatayud, Dominic Chopping
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The new CEO of Stellantis, the company formed by Carlos Tavares with the merger of Chrysler-Fiat with Peugoet Citroen of France, is Antonio Filosa. Filosa was the head of Americas operations of Stellantis and is Italian from the Fiat operations. Stellantis faces a dropoff in sales in the US with 20% higher inventory and uncertainty about tariffs on production of cars in Canada and Europe. He succeeds Carlos Tavares in a changed environment for automobiles. Tavares had pushed ahead with plans for EV vehicles which now face considerable uncertainty.

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Swiss Regulator Put in Spotlight

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Wall Street Journal - 12.20.2012 Original article ›
Anita Greil, Anita, Greil, Marta Falconi, Marta, Falconi
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Mark Branson is a 44 year old citizen of Britain, who is head of the division in charge of supervising banks at the Swiss Financial Markets Supervisory Authority, Finma. He headed the UBS bank operations in Japan at the time when traders there were engaging in manipulating the LIBOR rate. This has raised questions in the Swiss parliament about the integrity of the Swiss regulator.
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China’s Stock Response Has No Public Face to Calm Turbulent Markets

  
Wall Street Journal - 07.29.2015 Original article ›

China Moves to Strengthen Grip Over Supply of Rare-Earth Metals

  
Wall Street Journal - 02.07.2011 Original article ›
James T. Areddy, James, T., Areddy

For G.E., a Human Face on Its Role in Health Care

  
New York Times - 02.12.2010 Original article ›
Stephanie Clifford, Stephanie, Clifford

United, US Air Face Clearer Path For Renewed Talks on Combination

  
Wall Street Journal - 04.09.2010 Original article ›
Susan Carey, Susan, Carey

Polaris, Maker of Sport Vehicles, Races to Catch Up With Business

  
Wall Street Journal - 05.24.2010 Original article ›
Joann S. Lublin, Joann, S., Lublin

Snap, Crackle, Slap: FTC Objects to Kellogg's Rice Krispies Health Claim

  
Wall Street Journal - 06.04.2010 Original article ›
Susan Carey, Susan, Carey

Jobless Rate Rises to 9.6% as Another 54,000 Jobs Are Lost

  
New York Times - 09.03.2010 Original article ›
Motoko Rich, Motoko, Rich

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