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What the world can learn from Japan’s factories

Reviving manufacturing has become a prime policy objective for national leaders from Washington to Beijing to New Delhi. We can debate whether chasing factories is worth the effort in the 21st century, but not the difficulty of building and maintaining a robust industrial sector in the face of relentless global competition and technological change. At least one country seems to ...

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Barnier’s Brexit line will keep Lloyd Blankfein tweeting

The 75,900 people following Lloyd Blankfein on Twitter have come to expect a regular dose of snarky Brexit commentary from the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO. Like a Zagat guide to euro-zone financial hubs, he has doled out praise to Paris and Frankfurt for its ‘nice weather,’ of course. The UK gets nul points. Blankfein frets he won’t be able ...

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Investors double down on flight from coal

Oil faces some new pressures and coal is on the outs. Those were two clear messages in the many energy investments and emissions strategies announced at the recent One Planet Summit in Paris: Consider, for example, these announcements. France’s AXA plans to divest 2.4 billion euros from coal and “completely divest from the oil sands industry and associated pipelines.” ING ...

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