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6 Dec 2019, 7:10 am by Shannon O'Hare
These banks largely avoided the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis but Bloomberg reports that their profitability has “plunged” due to the Australian central bank cutting interest rates to record lows and the inquiry into financial industry misconduct. [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 9:01 am by Florian Mueller
Yesterday, the United States Trade Representative (USTR)--which is the title of a presidential appointee at the rank of an ambassador (presently Robert Lighthizer), who has an entire agency, the Office of the USTR, working under him--published the findings (PDF) from the first segment of its Section 301 (Trade Act of 1974) investigation into France's Digital Services Tax. [read post]
3 Dec 2019, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
But, importantly, McCulloch didn’t invent the theory of implied powers, which was the subject of heated debate during ratification and was relied on heavily in the First Congress and in the debates over the First Bank of the United States. [read post]
2 Dec 2019, 7:20 am by John Jascob
"The United States is far behind other nations when it comes to mitigating the effects of climate change on the global economy," said Gregg Gelzinis, policy analyst for Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress and one of the report’s co-authors. [read post]
30 Nov 2019, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In 1935, he wrote a short book titled War Is a Racket, in which he described and criticized the workings of the United States in its foreign actions and wars, indicating that many were inspired by the imperial aspirations of American corporations (for example, wars in Central America that benefitted American sugar and fruit interests). [read post]
25 Nov 2019, 11:00 am by John Mikhail
  None of the Justices contemplates a broader use of McCulloch’s central holding, according to which the individual mandate could be justified simply as a means to promote the general welfare. [read post]
25 Nov 2019, 10:50 am by Gordon Ahl
The speakers for the event are Ambassador Alex Rondos, the EU special representative to the horn of Africa, and Baroness Catherine Ashton, the Bank of America Chair of the Wilson Center’s Global Europe Program. [read post]
22 Nov 2019, 2:05 pm
The following is the introduction to the Report’s cover page: “Just after the dawn of the Atomic Age and during the height of the Cold War, the United States conducted 67 nuclear tests in the Marshall Islands of the central Pacific. [read post]
22 Nov 2019, 11:07 am by Richard Altieri, Benjamin Della Rocca
These data are then tied to residents’ online activity, banking information, and phone calls and text messages. [read post]
22 Nov 2019, 2:51 am by Ezra Rosser
The central aim is to provide a resource for individuals and groups trying to access benefits, secure rights and protections, and mobilize for economic justice. [read post]
21 Nov 2019, 8:44 am by Kristian Soltes
” In their letter to Powell, Hill and Foster had expressed concerns over the potential risks to the dollar if another nation or private company creates a widely used cryptocurrency, and asked whether the central bank is look pursuing such an option. . . . [read post]
21 Nov 2019, 6:30 am by Mark Graber
  The first debates over national power were as animated by concerns over federal power to regulate slavery as by concerns over the national bank or internal improvements. [read post]
21 Nov 2019, 6:23 am by Scott R. Anderson
The United States has expressed legal concerns with these settlement activities since shortly after Israel assumed control of the West Bank in 1967. [read post]
21 Nov 2019, 4:58 am by admin
A central premise of our trial system is that jurors follow the law (or instructions) given by the court to decide the facts in the case. [read post]
20 Nov 2019, 9:42 am by Nikolai de Koning (NL)
On 8 November 2019, the Dutch Central Bank (De Nederlandsche Bank, DNB) organised a seminar for crypto service providers at its offices in Amsterdam. [read post]
20 Nov 2019, 6:43 am by Elena Hodges
Lebanese banks own more than 85 percent of Lebanese debt, and political elites control 43 percent of assets in Lebanon’s commercial banking sector. [read post]
18 Nov 2019, 8:05 pm
The four doctors still in custody were picked up on Wednesday after withdrawing a significant amount of cash from the bank, which the government charged was to finance protests. [read post]
Investigations were initiated by regulators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. [read post]