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“By June 16, SpaceX shares had climbed to $225.64, pushing Musk to his $1.32 trillion peak.”
“In 2025 alone, $339 billion was invested in start-ups in the U.S., about two-thirds of which focus on AI.”
“a pint of Stella costs £6.43”
“The revenue of tuanbo, meaning “group or team livestreams”, is expected to leap from 15 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) last year to 40 billion yuan ($5.8 billion) this year.”
“Every 100 points is worth $1 off”
“Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has secured $94 million from the Ontario government to fund a major expansion of its emergency department”
“On June 22 alone, SpaceX dropped 16%, erasing an estimated $240 billion from Musk’s balance sheet in a single session.”
“We absolutely do not expect $500 million to be the sum total of funds that will be required to achieve the goal,” she said. “But that's kind of our little part in it.”
“the 200 most affluent families in Britain owned wealth equivalent to about 5 per cent of GDP”
“All together, Lumen says the aggregate impact of the initiative delivered $350 million in annualized cost savings in 2025, with a clear path to $1 billion in savings by 2027.”
“starting from 1000 points”
“Tesla compounded the damage the following day, sliding nearly 6%; Musk owns roughly 12% of the electric-vehicle maker.”
“In 2022, his office launched the Green Spaces Fund, which invested approximately £3.5 million (over $4.6 million) into more than 120 community projects across the city region”
“Today, the same group owns the equivalent of 25 per cent”
“trick an employee into wiring roughly $25 million to fraudulent accounts”
“$210 introductory coupon”
“SpaceX has now fallen more than 30% from its mid-June peak, trading around $156 — a level that underscores just how exposed Musk’s fortune is to a narrow set of bets.”
“Expected lifetime Social Security spending was up 14% because of these demographic changes, the study found.”
“The 50 wealthiest families in Britain are as rich as the bottom half of the population – that’s 34 million people”
“after earning 400 points, netting you 2 points per $1 and a $5 birthday coupon”
“Analysts estimate SpaceX accounts for close to 80% of his total net worth, with Tesla making up most of the remainder.”
“Social Security is expected to be insolvent under its current trajectory by 2032.”
“splashes £100m on a railway tunnel to protect bats”
“Keep going until 1200 points and you'll earn 3 points per $1, 8% off selected items and a $10 coupon on your birthday”
“Analysts note that a 6% recovery in SpaceX shares would restore his 13-figure status, meaning he could yet become the world’s first recurring trillionaire.”
“Paris spent over $1 billion to clean up the Seine and the canal to be swimmable ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games.”
“At the time he was writing, UK median earnings had shrunk by 10.4 per cent since the financial crash, the second worst drop in the developed world.”
“when you've earned 2400 points, netting you 5 points per $1, 10% off most items across the brand's range, 72-hour VIP access to sales, a $20 coupon”
“As of June 20, 2026, Mukhamadkulov and Poetica Coffee owe the state of New York $397,166.58—mostly in unpaid sales tax—according to the New York Department of Taxation and Finance.”
“Burnham nodded to Bank of England research which showed that for every ten percentage point increase in the proportion of migrants in a given occupation, wages dropped by 0.3 per cent”
“GARVEE points are only valid for a year, and earned points totals reset every 12 months”
“All but one of Mukhamadkulov's 16 docketed warrants were incurred in 2025.”
“Rachel Reeves announced a new means test for the winter fuel allowance, a payment of £100 to £300 made to pensioners in the colder months.”
“T1 sold its first batch of credits for $160 million late last year (its gross profit in 2025 was $55.6 million, for comparison).”
“The effective cut to the allowance for around ten million pensioners”
“estimated net worth approaching $100 million”
“At this first budget, Rachel Reeves raised £40 billion in revenue through a range of tax reforms in order, largely, to provide greater funding to the NHS.”
“contributed $50,000 to Kristof's campaign in 2021”
“Harlow won £23.6million of investment from the Towns Fund, the regeneration programme that underpinned both the Conservative’s Levelling Up ambitions and now Labour’s Pride in Place.”
“contributed $100,000 to Kristof's campaign”
“In 2011,before the A-listers arrived, the Football Conference demanded a £250,000-bond from the club’s then-owners to ensure their participation in the upcoming season.”
“contributed $5,000 to Kristof's campaign”
“When the EFL allows nearly every club to be one month away from administration with a change in circumstance or mood of their owner, it’s sad and irresponsible.””
“Its funders include left-leaning foundations such as the left-wing tech billionaire Pierre Omidyar’s wife Pam Omidyar’s "Humanity United," which put in $200,000 in 2024, and George and Alexander Soros’s Open Society Foundations, which gave…”
“According to Galinson, the EFL is surprisingly matey at the top. When owners find themselves in each other’s cities, they play golf, go for dinner and discuss how to protect and promote the financial soundness of the EFL by the 2027-28 sea…”
“The Times article also relies on "a forthcoming report from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, an investigative nonprofit based in Amsterdam." That group gets funding from, among others, the governments of the U.K., Fran…”
“value of football’s international media rights has almost tripled since 2017, from $340m to $900m.”
“The Times breathlessly writes up the not-exactly-earth-shattering news that some guy in London has sent his relatives in Gaza "more than $250,000" to help them.”
“In 2011,before the A-listers arrived, the Football Conference demanded a £250,000-bond from the club’s then-owners to ensure their participation in the upcoming season. When the owner’s provided only £150,000, the fans raised £100,000, ess…”
“The town has seen a 20 per cent yer-on-year boom in tourism since 2021, injecting millions into the local economy.”
“who have spent an average of $1,500 on plane tickets to be there that weekend.”
“As US audiences have increased, the value of football’s international media rights has almost tripled since 2017, from $340m to $900m.”
“Starmer has the nuts and bolts of a leadership campaign ready to go, including a “war chest” of £100k+ donations and a bank account ready to receive further funding.”
“if this goes ahead, it could give Tehran access to an estimated $24 billion worth of frozen assets and undermine one of Trump’s core critiques of the Obama-era nuclear deal, which he has castigated for a similar agreement to release frozen…”
“the additional 45p rate of income tax”
“Roughly 20 per cent of government bond sales come from the Bank as part of quantitative tightening (QT).”
“Gopinath warned that "heterodox" policies like nationalisation, price controls and getting the central bank to absorb its fiscal costs could be bad for the economy.”
“The UK’s failure to stabilise inflation since 2022 has compounded this: markets now expect interest rates to remain higher for longer, and expect greater interest on government bonds in return.”
“Labour’s £6bn Pride in Place programme does precisely that by making up to £20m available to almost 300 of our poorest communities, but it’s local people who are in the driving seat deciding how that money will be spent.”
“the share of taxation overall in national income was actually higher at the end of her rule in 1990 (32.9 per cent) than it had been at the beginning in 1979 (30.7 per cent).”
“Since 1979, the UK economy has grown by an average of 2.1 per cent a year. This compares with 3.2 per cent in the Keynesian period from 1949 to 1979. (Since the financial crash of 2008, the figure has been 1.2 per cent.)”
“The share of national income taken by ordinary households in wages and salaries (rather than by the owners of capital) rose in the Keynesian period from 57 per cent in 1948 to 64 per cent in 1975. Under neoliberalism, it fell to 52 per cen…”
“Median weekly pay last year was £767. After adjusting for inflation this was 2 per cent less than in 2008.”
“Productivity has fared only slightly better: historically around 2 per cent, annual productivity growth since 2009 has averaged 0.7 per cent.”
“In 2009-10 the national debt was 65 per cent of GDP. In 2018-19 it was 80 per cent (after this it ballooned due to the response to Covid).”
“The share of taxation remained about 33 per cent throughout.”
“salary is now 113 times the average wage, where in the 1970s it was merely 20 times.”
“wealth has more than doubled as a proportion of national income between 1979 and today.”
“Over the ten years from 2011 to 2021 it is estimated that 1,200 British start-ups were sold to overseas buyers, with the cumulative loss of economic value by 2026 around $1 trillion.”
“Haque meets Liam, a cheerful young model who makes $10,000 a month”
“In the first round of loans in 2016, £167m was lent to five build-to-rent schemes”
“A total of 3033 units or 67.7 per cent of the total units built in that round assisted by the HIF were build-to-rent.”
“Earlier this year, the GMCA published a report that reviewed the impact of the fund over an 11-year period.”
“It revealed that between 2015 and 2024, the fund invested £983m in loans into Manchester’s property sector.”
“Two thirds were invested within the Manchester City Council area, while more than half of that amount – over £500m – was lent to Renaker alone.”
“Across the near 11,000 units supported by the HIF, only 503 – under 5 per cent – have been classed as affordable.”
“This month the fund approved a loan of £50m to Salboy, a developer co-founded by Betfred billionaire Fred Done, to ease their plans for a 246m-tall skyscraper.”
“Working side-by-side with business we’ve built the country’s fastest growing economy.”
“while Morgan Stanley models a US$385 billion impact on the bull case.”
“The 2023-2033 equipment plan is already £17bn in the red.”
“The National Audit Office found that the capability delivered for £11bn spent so far was a “disappointing return”;”
“the MoD initially claimed it would be £18bn.”
“The National Audit Office found that the capability delivered for £11bn spent so far was a “disappointing return”; the full through-life cost may run to £70bn; the MoD initially claimed it would be £18bn.”
“Moving UK defence spending to 3.5 per cent of GDP would cost about £36bn more each year in today’s terms.”
“Sadiq Khan blocked a £50m Palantir contract with the Metropolitan Police.”
“Tiff Macklem has trimmed the overnight rate twice already this year, to 3.50 per cent in March and 3.25 per cent in May, and the latest Monetary Policy Report leaves the door politely open to another quarter-point in July.”
“Mark Carney's first budget pencils in net new borrowing of roughly CAD$78 billion across the medium term, most of it weighted to housing, defence, and World Cup‑adjacent infrastructure.”
““not to the £28 billion the armed forces thought it was necessary just to stand still, but to a mere £10 billion””
“For the lowest income households, the TUC proposes a 30 per cent reduction in annual bills, equivalent to a £559 saving each year.”
“It has also set out help for more middle income families. Under the scheme, households earning below the median income would enjoy a 20 per cent reduction (£373 a year)”
“while middle and some higher income households would get 10 per cent off (or £186).”
“Taken together this would mean the government intervening to support 65 per cent of all UK households (with 35 per cent, the highest earners, receiving no support).”
“The TUC claims its policy would have the positive knock-on effect of reducing headline inflation by between 0.3 and 0.4 percentage points.”
“The scheme is estimated by the TUC to cost £3.4-5.9bn per annum.”
“The union body says it would ideally be paid for by an increase in the windfall tax on banks, projecting this could raise up to £60 billion over the next four years.”
“median income increased 611 per cent between 1987 and 2022”
“According to the federal budget, Canada will spend an estimated CAD $1.3 billion on direct World Cup costs — security, transit, host-city support — across the three competition years. A further $400 million is committed to legacy programs …”
“Tourist arrivals during host months are projected to lift GDP by around 0.1 percentage points — a modest figure, but politically significant if it lands in a quarter when the broader economy is sluggish.”
“no combination of the standard policy levers will deliver sustained growth of 2 per cent or more.”
“the acute liveability issue since about 2022”
