“US exit from UNHRC ‘greeted as catastrophe'”

Jun 21, 2018 | World

While Trump was still trying to be nominated, I met Jeffrey Hayzlett, who’d worked with and knew him. He said Trump’s business style was ‘disruptive’, the negotiating equivalent of throwing a hand grenade into the room and waiting to see the results; sometimes disastrous, sometimes surprising. Whether or not you think he’s mad, bad and dangerous, he’s doing what he was elected to do. And if you worry, as many do, that he makes too many decisions on his own and off the cuff, remember the Iraq war was the result of many UNhours of ‘group thinking’, both in No.10 and the White House.

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“China slowdown sends markets plunging”

The gloomy business headlines this week are about China and the end of the economic world it's been driving. Here's another: 'China economy grows at slowest pace in 25 years, world's second-largest economy posts figures that add to fears of a slowdown that will affect...

“UBS moves back into battle for rich Americans”

Proof, if proof were needed that pretty much everything in financial and corporate worlds goes full circle if you wait long enough. The super-rich are often of no fixed tax abode, and it was allegedly the role of Swiss banks to offer safe and anonymous haven for their...