BEIJING (Reuters) – China is likely to implement proactive fiscal policy next year as there is still a need for the world’s second-biggest economy to realise stable growth, a former central banker was cited as saying in state-owned media on Sunday. The comment comes as the economy struggles for momentum after being hobbled by lengthy … Read more
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Art Basel Miami Beach This is the main event. Fairgoers also have expanded ticket options that include early access and the Thursday night vernissage and Collectors Lounge access during the public days. Dec. 6-7 VIP; public days Dec. 8-10. Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Dr., Miami Beach; starting at $75, $58 tariff for … Read more
Burkina Faso and Niger have followed Mali in announcing they are to withdraw from an international force known as the G5 that was set up to fight Islamists in the Sahel region. All three countries are run by military rulers following coups who have formed their own mutual defence pact. Their so-called Alliance of Sahel … Read more
The Republican congressman George Santos, who was expelled from Congress on Friday, still faces a sweeping federal indictment over his use of campaigns funds as well as other ethics questions that stem from his improbable, and indeed hard to believe, political career. The walls started to crumble for him in mid-December last year when the … Read more
(Bloomberg) — A rally across all asset classes powering the S&P 500 to its best month in over a year has finally caught the attention of retail investors. Most Read from Bloomberg The same traders who created the so-called meme-stock mania, with big bets on speculative companies, are back. And they are piling into the … Read more
Former UFC champion Eddie Alvarez might be “The Underground King,” but he’s no “King of Violence.” That title belongs to Mike Perry. Perry proved his mettle in Saturday night’s BKFC 56 headliner as he took Alvarez’s punches like they were no big deal while delivering shot after shot to Alvarez, whose corner stopped the fight … Read more
Ross Douthat was mostly right in his excellent November 15 New York Times column, which ended with this: “The world is much stranger than the secular imagination thinks.” But the secular imagination, except for those dogmatic in atheism, is concluding that the world is a very strange place. That conclusion was not popular when I … Read more
A federal appeals court rules that civil lawsuits seeking damages against former President Donald Trump for his alleged role in inciting the U.S. Capitol riot carried out by his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, can proceed. In the Georgia racketeering and election interference case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, Judge Scott McAfee … Read more
Bitcoin continues to surge toward the $40,000 level that it hasn’t seen since the May 2022 blowup of supposed “stablecoin” TerraUSD. A number of factors are propelling the Bitcoin price, including possible movement toward Securities and Exchange Commission approval of a Bitcoin ETF. But the biggest may be the seemingly inevitable Federal Reserve rate cuts … Read more