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The Russia collusion you should care about

Forget Twitter trolls, Facebook ads and multilingual propaganda websites: The biggest Russian threat to Western democracies comes from the massive amounts of cash Russians have exported and parked in the West. That money’s corrupting potential is all but limitless, but both the increasingly isolationist Russia and the increasingly anti-Russian West do little to stem the flow. In a recent paper, ...

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Boards behaving badly are now on notice in India

India’s company boards are due for another shakeup, and this time around investors should see some real change. The reason to place a higher burden of expectation on the Uday Kotak committee, which submitted its report to the stock-market regulator, is that it’s at least attempting to break away from a 20-year tradition of trying to fashion a modern corporate ...

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Puerto Rico faces not just debt, but depopulation

“They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street,” Donald Trump told Geraldo Rivera. “We’re going to have to wipe that out. That’s going to have to be—you know, you can say goodbye to that. I don’t know if it’s Goldman Sachs but whoever it is, you can wave goodbye to that.” Bond markets didn’t appreciate the ...

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