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Jesus, how deluded are these people?

Significantly, the indictment did not trigger a default under Deutsche Bank’s loan documents. Trump and his lenders can exhale, a little. Right now, the prospects of forfeiture and foreclosure and the...

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Seems reasonable to me

As it turned out, though, some of them thrived as our spending habits changed. And JD Sports was one of the winners. Its profits are set to rise by at least 70% to an estimated £550m this year. … Take...

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I’ve an idea here!

“This is why we are calling for interested partners to come forward with their innovative ideas and help play a pivotal part in the Government’s plans to improve public health.” OK. Dieters could be...

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Wonder if they’ll bother to read the whole piece

Brussels has shelved plans for a sweeping new digital tax, just hours after Apple revealed that it shifted a record £720m of profits into Ireland from its British operations last year. Terror! It came...

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This is fun, isn’t it?

Speaking of Haiti: The power vacuum and dangerous instability in the Francophone nation result from many factors, but the American media ignore big ones, including state capture by elites, a grim...

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Possibly not enough

Paula Vennells, the former chief executive of the Post Office, could be stripped of her CBE under Government plans to launch a review into honours awarded to people embroiled in the Horizon...

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Even? Seriously Guardian…..

Tesla second-quarter profits top $1bn even as it struggles to handle demand If people are trying to buy more than you can sell them then yes, profits are a likely result.

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No, this is the other lot

A cutting-edge start-up founded by a quartet of British university scientists has been valued at $3.2bn (£2.3bn) in one of the largest bets yet on a breakthrough that it is claimed will revolutionise...

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7 Best Ways to Grow Your Business and Finance Together

Are you planning to leave your boring and cumbersome 9 to 5 job? Maybe yes. However, you have this constant fear about how to opt for a business. It is no easy job to manage an entire business...

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Not how it works Mr. Coates, not how it works

Re Marvel and DC comic writers: Comic creators are “work-for-hire”, so the companies they work for owe them nothing beyond a flat fee and royalty payments. Work for hire often doesn’t even include...

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This is a surprise, isn’t it?

Investors in a property firm are on the brink of financial ruin and face homelessness after the group reneged on its interest payments and pressured them to waive rights to withdraw their cash. DIY...

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We’re sure you do Matey

Gary Jennison, chief executive of Amigo, said: “In the last 10 months we’ve built an entirely new management team at Amigo to address the historic problems facing the business. We’re currently working...

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Buggers the business, don’t it?

OnlyFans, the subscription website often associated with pornography, is banning “sexually explicit” content at the request of its bankers. The company, founded in 2016 by Essex-born chief executive...

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Yes, I know it doesn’t work

No atmosphere, no sound. But still fun.

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Not quite

Ocado, which is half-owned by Marks & Spencer, The UK retail business is a joint venture yes. But M&S most certainly doesn’t own 50% of Ocado……

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But the pandemic isn’t driving calls

Meat wars: why Biden wants to break up the powerful US beef industry As the pandemic drives calls for a radical overhaul of the food system, can the president take on the meat giants? The pandemic is...

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How Soviet

This brings back memories: The accounting and consulting firm KPMG has become the first big business in Britain to set a target for the number of working-class staff. It is aiming for 29 per cent of...

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The depth of knowledge here is just astonishing

The problem isn’t them. High-quality ingredients are expensive and time-consuming to prepare when they’re available at all, and people with low wages and long hours—the people most likely to have...

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Mr Lynn misses the point

The Torygraph’s economics and business commentators (Ben Marlow being the other culprit) do seem to be good at missing the point: We used to have a name for quoted companies that collected together...

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What a fascinating number

Don’t know whether it’s true or not but I can imagine that it is: That has fuelled concerns over financial contagion as well as the knock-on impact on the world economy from a slowdown in the country’s...

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