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1 week ago | 
livemint.com | Rahul Jacob
Opinion Summary Younger folk aren’t drinking much in the rich world, a trend that could catch on elsewhere too, but that doesn’t mean this industry is staring at doom. As volumes fall, prices are going premium. This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you. Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On few subjects is there a greater generational divide in the developed world than on the merits of having a cocktail.
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3 weeks ago | 
livemint.com | Rahul Jacob
Opinion Summary China’s success has wowed the world even as its factory trends catch on globally. It’s ironic that so much policy attention is being paid to manufacturing while this sector’s job generation drops thanks to robot adoption. This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you. Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.
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3 weeks ago | 
htsyndication.com | Rahul Jacob
New Delhi, June 4 -- In a world of wildly exaggerated claims for artificial intelligence (AI), the paradox is that the mythology which leads governments to favour manufacturing over services often seems like a global religion. US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick was quoted a few months ago fantasizing that "the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little, little screws to make iPhones" would soon move back to the US.
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1 month ago | 
livemint.com | Rahul Jacob
Opinion Summary There are political lessons from Canada, Australia, the UK and Europe for liberal parties everywhere. In taking on the hard right, they may need to harden their approach. It’s what realpolitik demands. This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you. Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Some months ago, Canada’s ruling Liberal Party was 25 percentage points behind the Conservatives, the country’s right-wing opposition, in pre-election opinion polls.
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1 month ago | 
livemint.com | Rahul Jacob
His voice, as he approaches his 95th birthday on 30 August, sounded croaky.
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1 month ago | 
htsyndication.com | Rahul Jacob
Posted On: 2025-05-08 Posted By: Rahul Jacob Business & Finance Health & Lifestyle Cities Sports MINT New Delhi, May 8 -- Asked a question about Berkshire Hathaway's earnings power over the past financial year by a London-based economics professor at the company's annual gathering of shareholders on 3 May, Warren Buffett conjured a soliloquy worthy of a Shakespearean comedy. His voice, as he approaches his 95th birthday on 30 August, sounded croaky. But he replied with a quick reference to...
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1 month ago | 
sundaytimes.lk | Rahul Jacob
A fashion show all too often involves people wearing clothes too impractical to wear even to a party. Models tend to be of body types ranging from the skinny to skeletal or absurdly gym toned. Barefoot’s first fashion show in almost a decade was a role model of a different kind, however. Sixty years young, Barefoot continues to make its own rules.
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2 months ago | 
sundaytimes.lk | Rahul Jacob
Malinee Jayasinghe-Peris’s solo recital at the Women’s International Club in Colombo as a 12-year-old may well have had the blessings of the gods. Her piano teacher, Alice Cockburn, insisted the stage be adorned with coconut flowers and altar lamps “to keep away evil spirits and the thoughts of jealous music teachers,” Malinee recalls with a laugh. Lionel Wendt asked that she wear a bottle green dress and photographed her for the occasion. She performed works by Mozart, Beethoven and CPE Bach.
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2 months ago | 
livemint.com | Rahul Jacob
More than a decade ago, writing about its October edition, when buyers from the West throng its halls hoping to stock up ahead of Christmas, I likened it to chancing upon an army of Santa Claus’s helpers and discovering they were nearly all Chinese. This year, though, set against the backdrop of Trump tariffs, all is change. Business deals for Chinese suppliers are expected to plummet.
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2 months ago | 
livemint.com | Rahul Jacob
In 1914, John Maynard Keynes wrote an almost triumphalist ode to globalization, just before that vision was dismantled by World War I and the subsequent Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the US.
