by globalpro | Apr 9, 2019 | Finance
Let’s start this week’s newsletter with some data. Nationally, startups pulled in $30.8 billion in the first quarter of 2019, up 22 percent year-on-year, according to Crunchbase’s latest deal round-up. A closer look at the numbers shows a big drop in...
by globalpro | Apr 9, 2019 | Finance
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon decries socialism. Unless of course its the banks that need a government bailout, says Robert Reich, former US secretary of laborIn his annual letter to shareholders, distributed last week, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon took aim at socialism,...
by globalpro | Apr 8, 2019 | Finance
Ahead of crunch summit, Berlin is keeping options open to help secure support for a withdrawal agreementAngela Merkel is open to backing Theresa Mays request for a short Brexit extension as the German chancellor seeks to maintain the pressure on British MPs to support...
by globalpro | Apr 8, 2019 | Finance
Businesses including Financial Times cancel events at London landmark as backlash growsHigh-profile events and awards shows have been cancelled at the Dorchester in London in protest at the decision of Brunei, the hotels ultimate owner, to make gay sex and adultery...
by globalpro | Apr 8, 2019 | Finance
Katie Gorka, a Trump administration political appointee in the Department of Homeland Security, suggested in a July 2017 email that the agency, which had just canceled funding for a group dedicated to deradicalizing white supremacists, redirect its efforts to focus on...
by globalpro | Apr 7, 2019 | Finance
Welcome to Pay Dirtexclusive reporting and research from The Daily Beasts Lachlan Markay on corruption, campaign finance, and influence-peddling in the nations capital. The article, which covered Sen. Rand Pauls (R-KY) endorsement of Moore, did not mention that that...
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