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Michael Flynn appears to have come full circle

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn appears to have come full circle, if you read carefully the sentencing memo by special counsel Robert Mueller recommending that Flynn serve no jail time despite pleading guilty to making false statements to the FBI. The Trump campaign warrior of 2016 who led chants of ‘lock her up’ deriding Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and then ...

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High earners complicate Powell’s job

If data dependency is the name of the game, then Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has his work cut out for him. In an economy driven by consumption, the key is having a firm grasp on how spending is poised to perform in future. The effects of monetary policy play out with a lag of around one year, which suggests ...

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The robots are stealing some of your bonus

The good news for asset managers is that they will get an average pay increase this year of 5%. The bad news is that increased spending on technology is reducing the amount of money available to their compensation pools. That’s the conclusion of the annual Asset Management Compensation study jointly published by financial services research firm Greenwich Associates and pay ...

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