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Daimler must wish over Tesla stake

Tesla Inc’s march to a $275 billion market capitalization has been pretty galling for Germany, the birthplace of the automobile. But the pain is felt most acutely at Daimler AG, which used to be a large Tesla shareholder. Had the owner of the luxury Mercedes-Benz brand kept hold of the almost 5 million shares it offloaded in 2014, they would ...

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Macron, Merkel deliver $859bn breakthrough

After days of bad-tempered talks, the European Union’s 27 members have agreed a 750 billion-euro ($859 billion) Covid-19 recovery fund that looks like a historic step toward more joint stimulus across the bloc — even if it’s not yet a “Hamilton moment.” While the unusually united Franco-German duo of Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel couldn’t avoid watering down their original ...

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Biden needs battle plan to defend government

Some conservative legal thinkers speak of a “Lost Constitution” or “Constitution in Exile.” By that they mean the Constitution as it was understood before President Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal helped form the modern regulatory state. Their Constitution in Exile would invalidate key parts of contemporary government. Some conservatives want to revive the long-dead “nondelegation doctrine,” which was once taken ...

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