Treasury yields sink even as rate rise looms (Financial Times, 24 June) US 10-year Treasury yields looked set to close below 4 per cent this week even as investors prepared for the Federal Reserve to raise short-term interest...
Read MoreIn a wide ranging and very long interview with the Financial Times (likely behind subscription wall – thus the long excerpts below), former President Clinton discusses a number of issues, including that of Gitmo, which he...
Read MoreFlorence Aubenas, who had been kidnapped in Baghdad along with her driver Hussein Hannoun, was released this morning and has just landed back safely in France. Hussein Hannoun is safe with his family in Baghdad. This is one...
Read MoreItalians are voting today and tomorrow (Sunday and Monday) in a national referendum on bioethics issues. They must decide whether they want to lift the following restrictions: a ban on donor sperm and eggs; a ban on scientific...
Read MoreRemember Philip Cooney? He’s the guy whos has been fingered by the NYT (as first commented in this diary by cscs and extended in this recommended diary by kissfan. Well, he has resigned “for unrelated reasons”....
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