How corporations rule the world

So what? Legal arguments about the nexus between tariffs and foreign policy goals have been sharpened over the past 18 months, both at home and in Geneva. These arguments can be politically potent, not just legally. Even if HTMX doesn’t win, its case puts an unflattering light on Trump’s tariff narrative. Now that much of corporate America has joined the action, the case makes a political statement that Congress quite literally can’t afford to ignore. … [Read more...] about American companies challenge Trump’s tariff narrative

April 26: Chinese ambassador Cheng Jingye hints at a boycott of Australian wine and beef and says tourists and students might avoid Australia 'while it's not so friendly to China'. Canberra dismisses the threat and warns Beijing against 'economic coercion'.  … [Read more...] about Western Australian premier fears for the future of his mining-dependent state if Australia’s relationship with China keeps worsening

Some have identified Hawley’s worldview as post-liberal, which Washington Free Beacon founding editor Matthew Continetti described as the idea “that liberal modernity has become (or perhaps always was) inimical to human flourishing.” Hawley hasn’t said that he self-identifies with post-liberalism, but The Atlantic said Hawley’s appeal is that he combines elements of economic populism with cultural conservatism. … [Read more...] about Here Are The Republicans To Keep An Eye On For 2024

J Crew, American 'preppy' clothing retailer, is to close all six of its UK stores making their staff redundant. Its parent company has recently emerged from administration and seems to have decided to liquidate its UK subsidiary.Celine Group Holdings, the parent company of Debenhams, has called in FRP Advisory to prepare for its own administration.This is understood to have been done to prevent any creditor taking action against them in the period when Debs is up for sale and trying to find a new owner. … [Read more...] about ‘We used to go there every Saturday looking for cheap TVs’: Billionaire Boohoo boss’ playboy son hails father’s £55million Debenhams takeover

“The Company should be provided with Bench marks and targets to attain. The Presidency, and Minister of Petroleum, Finance as well as the National Assembly should allow the Company operate commercially like other successful National Oil Companies without Nepotism, without interference and without corruption. If Nigeria must divest or privatize our Oil and Gas assets, then the Host Communities must have the Rights to first refusal before you open up the sale or bid to other Nigerians because the Oil and Gas in Nigeria, indeed, belongs to the Producing States and Host Communities in the first place. It was the military decree of 27th November 1969 that took it away from us and vested it on the Nation. Rather than keep and use it as a Nation, the Nation now plans to give away our national resources to a few unpatriotic foreigners and their local collaborators. … [Read more...] about PIB: Host Communities insist on 10% equity Share holdin to guarantee security

In 2017, Ethridge joined a task force at the nonprofit economic and cultural development organization Charlotte Center City Partners focused on finding solutions to the city’s affordable housing shortage. He focused on researching the preservation of NOAHs, looking at what cities like Minneapolis and Austin had done. Though the city of Charlotte had an affordable housing bond that was regularly reapproved by voters, it focused primarily on new construction–an important source of housing, but one that was slow to materialize, often taking three to four years from proposal to ribbon cutting. “We weren’t really thinking about this whole bed of thousands and thousands of older apartment units that really serve as a backbone for affordable housing in cities like Charlotte,” Ethridge says. … [Read more...] about Charlotte may have cracked the code on affordable housing. Here’s how