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Productivity - interesting!
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Helium, critical resource
Lords voting: Conservative (258), DUP (5), Labour (167), Liberal Democrats (84),
Ulster Unionist Party (2) Green Party (2) Plaid Cymru (1)
Non-affiliated (42) Independents (42) Crossbench 188
Commons [650 seats]
HM Government: Conservative Party (361)
HM Most Loyal Opposition: Labour Party (223) Scottish National Party (45) Liberal Democrats (13) Alliance APNI (1) Alba Party (2) Independent (6)
Sinn Féin (7) (abstentionist) Plaid Cymru (3) Green Party (1) SDLP (2) Democratic Unionist Party (8)
Vacant: Vacant (2)
Speaker: Speaker (1)
More worrying, the Irish Parliament:
Fianna Fail 36, Sinn Fein 37, Fine Gael 34, Green 12, Labour 7, Social Democrats 6, PBP/S 5, Aontu 1, RTOC 1, Independent 20, Vacant 0, Speaker: 1
Tense
days ahead as Boris Johnson waits to find out if inquiry ordered by
Boris Johnson finds that Boris Johnson attended a party at Boris
Johnson’s house.
Pending (and then confirmed) news
- 2017-09-24
Germany has no Government after failure to form coalition
- 2017-12-14 FCC Net neutrality vote goes
AGAINST
- 2017-12-14 Next 'Brexit' summit in EU -
little to no progress
- 2017-11-20
Temporary protected status - 57,000 Haitians to leave by 2019-05-20
- 2017-11-06 Temporary protected status -
2,500 Nicaraguans to leave by 2019-01-05
- 2018-01-08
Temporary protected status - 200,000 Salvadorans - to leave by 2019-09-09
- 2018-01-31 Temporary protected status - 7,000 Syrians - to (provisionally) leave by
2019-09-30
- 2018-04-26 Temporary Protected Status - 9,000 Nepalis - to leave by 2019-06-24
- 2018-05-04
Temporary
protected status - 57,000 Hundurans - to leave by 2020-01-05
- 2017-12-21 Brexit date
set at 2019-03-29
23:00:00Z
by Law (with change possible!)
- 2017-12-23 Next phase of
Brexit
talks in March 2018!
- 2018-01-08 At the end of January
2018, formal negotiations due to begin on a transition period after Brexit.
- 2018-01-08
EU wants finalised 'Brexit' agreement by October 2018 (!)
- 2018-01-11 Brent Crude tops $70 per
barrel for first time in ~4 years.
- 2018-01-12 US Dollar (USD) very weak
against major currencies. Accelerates decline. 14% decline in one year.
- 2018-01-12
Trade deficit between China and USA hits $300bn record for 2017. ~$1000
per person per year. (+14%, same as the decline in the USD)
- 2018-02-05 Jerome H. Powell
installed as Fed. Chairman
- 2018-02-05 Largest points drop ever
in DJIA
- 2018-02-07 German coalition finally
sealed
- 2018-02-08 USA Gov't funding
runs out (again)
- 2018-03-05 DACA program(me)
supposedly ends
- 2018-05-12 Iranian nuclear deal
renewal due (over-ridden by Trump prior to this date)
Last
year, Trump directed the Commerce Department to investigate whether
automotive imports pose a threat to national security, with a report
due no later than 2019-02-17. If the report finds cause for
concern (as everybody expects), it would give him the authority to
impose tariffs within 90 days. He has already proposed a 25% tariff
on imported autos.
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