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Thank you for our bonuses, Larry Elford

A holiday season thank you to all North Americans. From investment bankers, brokers, regulators and all the related friends in the financial services industry.

As the year comes to a close, we must take the time to reflect on the past twelve...

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Leading in underdevelopment, Jeremy Fox

Every year since 1990, the United Nations has published its Human Development Report, a comparative survey of the world’s nations and peoples measured not just by income, but also by education, health, life expectancy, literacy and so on. The...

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Fridman: How I became an oligarch, Mikhail Fridman

Good afternoon, good people of Lvov, dear colleagues!

I am starting this lecture in Ukrainian because I can still remember it, although I haven’t spoken Ukrainian for almost 30 years. I’m very grateful that you have taken the time on...

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If the Lib Dems knowingly lied in their manifesto shouldn't their MP's elections be declared void? , Stuart Weir

The importance of election manifestos and pledges is the one constitutional convention that everyone understands. At election time, the parties set out their policies and plans for government so that voters know what they are voting for. For a...

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Burma's struggle, Daw Suu's role, , Kyi May Kaung

Burmese people across the world, whether in the homeland or in exile, have for the last eighteen years marked today's date with particular sharpness and poignancy. 8 August 1988 was the occasion of a massacre in the capital Rangoon in which the...

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