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Apple’s Cook meets Macron amid calls for tech taxes

Bloomberg Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook met Emmanuel Macron in Paris, and according to French officials he didn’t push back against calls by the French president and European allies to change rules in the region to get technology giants to pay more taxes. The two met at the French presidential palace at the request of Cook. Macron is ...

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Sweden faces ‘acute’ shortage of workers

Bloomberg The economic boom in Sweden is running into a familiar foe: a lack of skilled workers. Even after a record inflow of migrants over the past three years that boosted the Nordic country’s population to above 10 million, businesses are having a harder and harder time finding workers. The number of job vacancies per person seeking a job is ...

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Puerto Rico’s $74 billion burden left it helpless when Maria hit

Bloomberg Year after year, as Puerto Rico’s government drew ever closer to ruin, it cut hundreds of millions of dollars from roads, schools and other public works. It neglected the electricity system, leaving it dilapidated and prone to prolonged outages. The water utility, which was leaking untreated sewage, put a $1.4 billion construction plan on hold. At least 5,800 police ...

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