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It’s hard to be the next China, not impossible

Is the global monetary order ready for another reboot? In the 1960s, Japan and Europe exported their way to post-World War II prosperity under the fixed exchange rates of the Bretton Woods agreement. The US went off the gold standard in 1971, but the established way of doing things didn’t collapse. Thirty years later, China essayed the role of being ...

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Ryanair calls Britain’s air bridge plan ‘more idiotic’

Ryanair slams german government bailout plan for rival lufthansa

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc dismissed the UK’s plan to relax quarantine requirements for people arriving from France, Greece and Spain as “more idiotic rubbish” and called for the restrictions to be scrapped entirely. The government plans next week to publish a full list of the countries with which it will establish so-called air bridges — exempting incoming travelers from self-isolating ...

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British Airways reaches deal to slash 350 pilots

Coronavirus outbreak in england

Bloomberg British Airways, a unit of International Consolidated Airlines Group, will cut 350 pilots and put another 300 in a “pool” for re-hire when needed as part of a deal reached with cockpit crew, The Sun reported. Most of the pilots facing compulsory redundancies worked from Gatwick airport in London, according to the report, which didn’t say where the information ...

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