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‘A mouthpiece for black people in Europe’

  Berlin / DPA Isaiah Lopaz lets his photos speaks for themselves. “And when do you go back?” reads one of the plain white T-shirts the 36-year-old American wears for his portrait series. “Where do you really come from?” is another. It’s a question the Afro-American hears all the time in his everyday life in his adopted home city of ...

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Bumpy recovery road as India cuts purchases of soaps to cars

  Bloomberg India’s economy is set for a choppy recovery from the world’s most sweeping currency policy change in decades. Inflation continued to slow in December as the cash ban squelched demand while a volatile factory output gauge rose in November, according to Bloomberg surveys before data due at 5:30 pm in New Delhi on Thursday. Companies are bracing for ...

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China’s big-city renters feel 20% inflation not headline 2%

  Bloomberg Project manager Yuan Fang says she’s cutting spending and working overtime after a 20 percent surge in the cost of both her Beijing room rent and her favorite Japanese lunch boxes. Civil servant Neo Zhu, who bought an apartment in the eastern city of Hangzhou 10 years ago, feels costs of everything from gas to food are stable. ...

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