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…ederal government that is engaged in a huge fight that may lead to a government shutdown. It’s called the Export-Import Bank. And for years, it was a bank that helped finance things that other banks wouldn’t do. And what’s happening over time is that it’s metastasized to be a che...

…s had reduced their direct influence. But the briefings I got from Shin Bet officers made it clear that some young West Bankers had begun trying to organize attacks against police, soldiers and Israeli civilians. The settlements were also growing in number, and their residents we...

…nstance, Jeffrey Epstein, the financier later caught in a scandal involving under-age prostitutes, agreed to buy out of bankruptcy a house in Palm Beach, Florida for $36 million—a house that had been on the market for two years. Epstein and Trump had been close friends—playboys i...

…by not bringing any significant criminal charges against individuals in the wake of the collapses of Lehman, investment bank Merrill Lynch, the insurer AIG, the mortgage securities and collateralized debt obligation businesses, or the myriad public misrepresentations from bank CE...

…ture depends on the Israeli authorities’ willingness to allow for the construction of access roads in "Area C," or West Bank territory under the direct control of Israel. The sole existing route into the city only exists because the Israeli government, after years of bureaucratic...

…siness adviser said Wednesday that Trump was negotiating to buy not only Kluge's grand estate, Albemarle House, which a bank foreclosed on in January, but all of Kluge's former real estate holdings outside Charlottesville near Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate. Those include 2...

currencies. The fact that the Central Bank of Brazil will be looking to cut rates in the face of a Fed tightening cycle makes the BRL especially vulnerable in 2017. We would recommend buying MXN against BRL as a relative value trade. 5. The best hedge against escalation of trade...

…important for EM fixed income spreads, especially for USD- and EUR-denominated bonds. Key date: Dec 6, European Central Bank meeting Capital flows The European debt crisis may lead to further periods of outflows and weaker prices, which could offer attractive entry levels for i...

In a beautifully renovated redbrick-and-stone former bank building, the Now Live Omni San Francisco has an elegant ambiance and draws inspiration from Renaissance Florence. The spacious rooms have carved- mahogany furniture and nine-foot-high crown molded ceilings, while sparklin...

…that continued through the Wall Street boom of the 80s, the tech boom of the 90s—surviving, to often bitter attack, the banking crisis—and that has now seen the emergence of the international billionaire and oligarch class. He has quite turned himself into a hyperbolic representa...

on the main West Bank and Gaza towns and refugee camps. We also imposed a curfew on Kiryat Arba and, for the first time, were given the authority to use administrative detention orders not just against Palestinians, but specific Jewish settlers. We arrested about a half-dozen lea...

… Islam: Hamas in Gaza, which opposed Israel’s presence on any part of “Muslim Palestine,” and Islamic Jihad on the West Bank. And in Lebanon, we were confronting the Iranian-backed Shi’ ite militia fighters of Hizbollah. Each of us in the small group on whom Rabin relied for inp...

…ole Sinai Desert, up to the edge of the Suez Canal. The entire Golan. The ancient lands of Judaea and Samaria: the West Bank. And the reunited capital city of Jerusalem. Suddenly, we had a sense that we could breathe. Wander, explore. Few of my classmates were religiously observ...

the People's Bank of China (PBoC) has recently cut interest rates by 25bps – the first such

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