This weekend’s issues with visas over Iran and related stories reveal something else about the Infantino-Trump relationship that weighs over this World Cup - despite the cozying, the Trump administration have helped Fifa with almost nothing
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Omar Artan, who was set to be the first Somalian to referee at the World Cup finals, has been dropped from the list of officials after he was denied entry to the United States.
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The BBC reports that the American FBI has been ordered to stop investigating Osama bin Laden and his family due to fear of damaging the United States’s relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
@NickTimiraos@darioperkins The Fed is on record that UST market functioning is in the national interest. If they were not backstopping USTs via support for repo markets though ample reserves, where do you think USTs would be and then where do think equities would be?
@rustie5555 I am pleased for the popularity of the sport in the city. But yea, it’s a bit of an indictment on the league that a new team can be minor premiers in their first season and win it in their second.
African presidents took to social media to welcome Arsenal’s first English Premier League title in more than two decades, tapping into the club’s vast fan base across the continent https://t.co/F2OewFjjwf
For all the guff and weird objections an excellent team has won the league. It's a very good achievement. A good season. Nice to have different champions. Maybe... no one needs to be upset!
It’s been a long time. 22 years. The intersection of Arsenal fans and All Black fans might get this. It feels like RWC2011. The one we just *had* to win. Ultimately, it wasn’t pretty, but we got it done. #COYG 🔴⚪️
@conksresearch@EauDeMacro Respectfully, it’s going to be more nuanced. We’ve already seen, ahead of his arrival, a lot more “how can we shrink the balance sheet by changing regulatory incentives to hold reserves” stuff from the Fed that we probably wouldn’t have seen if he wasn’t the incoming chair
@jacktame A fully integrated trans-Tasman economic area (with common regs) solves this. NZ is too small a market on its own for many companies to bother with