Leaders scrambling to get infrastructure bill and the $3.5tn spending plan to Biden’s desk while trying to avoid a shutdown and raise the debt ceiling
Rishi Sunak offers spending now – and signals tax cuts later
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Up until the last few minutes of his third budget it was hard to distinguish Rishi Sunak from Gordon Brown in his pomp. The hour-long address was peppered with spending pledges on everything from schools to prisons, f ...
Manchin criticizes Democrats’ billionaire tax plan for ‘targeting’ the wealthy – live
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Demokrate onthul nuwe miljardêrs se belastingplan om te help betaal vir Biden-agenda
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Senaat Demokrate het Woensdag 'n nuwe miljardêrs se belastingvoorstel onthul, 'n heeltemal nuwe inskrywing in die belastingkode wat ontwerp is om te help betaal vir Joe Biden se omvattende binnelandse beleidspakket en sy party nader aan 'n verbygang te bring..
‘Finally doing right’: Democrats’ big bill offers Sanders chance to deliver
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When making the case for progressive policy, the veteran leftwing senator Bernie Sanders often cites public opinion. “Poll after poll,” he’ll say, before running through a list of ambitious initiatives that the “vast ...
‘Incredibly worried’: end of Covid disaster payment looms for many still out of work
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It’s the lifeline that’s kept nearly 2 million people in New South Wales, Victoria and the ACT on a steady weekly income during Covid lockdowns. Since June, the government’s Covid-19 disaster payments – paid at either...
Great Britain’s retailers hit by longest spending slump since 1996
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Retail sales in Great Britain fell unexpectedly for the fifth month running in September, marking the worst slump for high street shops and online sales since modern records began in 1996. The Office for National Stat...
‘Not good for us’: Bayer Leverkusen CEO on Premier League’s spending power
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The Bayer Leverkusen CEO, Fernando Carro, believes the Bundesliga risks turning into a “development league” for the Premier League if it cannot find a way to bridge the gap between the TV revenue earned by both league...
China’s Evergrande crisis: clock ticking as crucial debt default deadline looms
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The rescue of embattled Chinese property company Evergrande appears to have stalled, leaving the developer on the brink of default and threatening to unleash contagion through the country’s giant real estate sector, h...