The longer their fiscal daydreaming goes on, the more certain it is to end with a rude awakening. –Editors: Ferdinando Giugliano, Clive Crook. To contact the senior editor responsible for Bloomberg View's editorials: David Shipley at davidshipley@bloomberg.net . Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg
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U.S. beef shipments jumped 13.7 percent last year to 177,445 tonnes, accounting for nearly half of South Korea's beef imports, customs data showed on Monday. Australian shipments eased about 4 percent to 172,804 tonnes. The North Asian country, where beef is a mainstay of the local diet, is the
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The U.K. government is grappling with whether to bail out debt-laden Carillion Plc or risk the collapse of the government contractor that employs tens of thousands of people and works on everything from hospitals to the HS2 high-speed rail project …
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Carillion Plc, a U.K. government contractor involved in everything from hospitals to the HS2 high-speed rail project, has filed for compulsory liquidation after a last-ditch effort to shore up finances and get a government bailout failed. The company, which employs 43,000 people worldwide — 20,000 of
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One of the best performers last year was ripple (XRP-USD), a rival cryptocurrency that quickly climbed to become the No. 2 player in the market by total value of outstanding tokens before falling back at the beginning of 2018.
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