June, 2017

• 27 June

  Global image of US plummets under Trump, shows Pew

  Bloomberg Donald Trump has been U.S. president for less than six months but it’s been enough time to send opinions of American leadership plunging. According to a Pew Research Center public survey of 37 countries, a median of just 22 percent of respondents have confidence in Trump to do the right thing in international matters, compared with 64 percent at ...

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• 27 June

  Perils of over-lending in United States

  

  Among the many things it does, the federal government is one of the nation’s largest lenders. It lends to farmers, homeowners, students, small businesses, exporters and rural electric utilities, among others. Altogether, there are more than 100 loan programs administered by 20 agencies overseeing lending worth $3.4 trillion in fiscal 2015, up from $1.5 trillion in 2007. These fascinating figures ...

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• 27 June

  Central banks should look abroad for talent

  

  Britain has long stood accused of being run by a small clique of privately educated aristocrats. At least in one sphere the accusation is unfair: Few countries are so open-minded when it comes to appointing the men and women who take some of the most crucial decisions for the future of the economy. The Bank of England’s rate-setting monetary policy ...

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• 27 June

  Europe’s unserious plan for Greece

  The deal struck last week between Greece and its euro-zone creditors is business as usual — and that’s not a good thing. This protracted game of “extend and pretend” serves nobody’s long-term interests: not those of the Greek government, the International Monetary Fund or, most of all, the people of Greece. Euro-zone finance ministers have unlocked a payment of 8.5 ...

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• 27 June

  That bewildering laptop ban

  When the US government announced a ban on carry-on laptops and other gadgets for certain flight routes in March, the policy made little sense. In the months since, it has only grown more bewildering. At the moment, the ban applies to large electronic devices on flights originating at 10 airports in the Middle East and North Africa. It may be ...

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• 27 June

  Let us plunge towards our fast-unfolding future

  

  In 1859, when Manhattan still had many farms, near the Battery on the island’s southern tip The Great American Tea Company was launched. It grew, and outgrew its name, becoming in 1870 The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, (A&P) which in 1912 begat the first A&P Economy Store, a semi-modern grocery store. By 1920, there were 4,500 such stores; ...

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• 27 June

  Jaguar will have to work hard for that second look

  

  Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is scouting for a new address with a little more space for valuations. It’s good to shop around, even though luxury carmakers don’t get the admiration on stock exchanges that their products attract on the streets. What’s questionable, though, is the timing. Being parked inside the Mumbai garage of Tata Motors Ltd, its owner for the ...

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• 27 June

  MSCI forgets its doubts about China

  

  In the culmination of a long-running saga, MSCI Inc. recently announced that it would include some Chinese stocks in its widely used benchmark indexes, starting next year. China has taken this as recognition of its growing economic and financial might. But the decision seemed to have almost nothing to do with the reality of China’s financial markets. For one thing, ...

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• 27 June

  Amazon robots may enter Whole Foods warehouses

  

  Bloomberg When Amazon.com Inc.’s $13.7 billion bid to buy Whole Foods was announced, John Mackey, the grocer’s chief executive officer, addressed employees, gushing about Amazon’s technological innovation. “We will be joining a company that’s visionary,” Mackey said, according to a transcript of meeting. “I think we’re gonna get a lot of those innovations in our stores. I think we’re gonna ...

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• 27 June

  Panasonic joins push to put photovoltaics on more car roofs

  

  Bloomberg Panasonic Corp. sees the future of solar on car rooftops. The Osaka-based electronics maker has started producing a 180-watt array of solar cells that can be fixed to the roof of an automobile. In February, Panasonic announced that its photovoltaic module would be used on the roof of Toyota Motor Corp.’s latest Prius plug-in hybrid. Cars represent a potentially ...

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