Driving ESG bond markets to new heights
22 February 2021
The environmental, social and governance (ESG) debt market had an eventful year in 2020 with the pandemic spurring the growth of social bonds and increased issuance of other types of sustainable debt. BBVA was also the first private institution in Europe to issue a Covid-19 bond, setting the precedent for others to follow.
Patricia Cuenllas and
Michael Gaynor review the events of 2020 and assess what this means for the year ahead
Environmental Finance: One of the big trends for ESG bonds in 2020 has been the proliferation of social bonds. What has driven this trend and are social bonds here to stay?
How much longer will the persecution of Donald Trump continue?
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February 7, 2021
Donald Trump and the people who gave us a Constitution and a country deserve much better. They deserve heartfelt thanks, not vilification.
Donald Trump s domestic political enemies targeted him while he became a presidential aspirant and will continue to do so as long as he lives and a while longer if they can.
The United States Constitution begins with a statement of purpose: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Will New York finally hold Governor Andrew Cuomo accountable for those needless nursing home deaths?
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January 31, 2021
Did any health care expert think that Cuomo s nursing home order did not effectively sentence thousands of New York nursing home residents to death?
On May 21, 2020, Yael Halon, in Janice Dean slams Cuomo nursing home policy after losing in-laws to COVID-19: Not just numbers on a curve (www.foxnews.com/media/janice-dean-cuomo-nursing-home-policy-coronavirus) reported: Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean told Tucker Carlson Tonight Thursday that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo s failed nursing home policy should be one of the biggest stories of the year after both of her parents-in-law lost their lives to the coronavirus.
Covid has clobbered the motor trade, with new car sales down 26pc in 2020. With dealerships closed once again the outlook for 2021 remains uncertain.
With most of us having spent the last nine months under virtual house arrest, new car sales took a hammering in 2020 - only 84,300 units were shifted, down over a quarter on the 113,300 sold in 2019. Second-hand imports fell even more sharply in 2020, down by 28pc to 78,500.
The Irish motor trade won t forget 2020 in a hurry. Since the first lockdown in March dealerships have endured repeated closures. On its own this would have been traumatic enough but it was happening at the same time as Brexit is upending the second-hand car trade - almost half of all the cars registered for the first time in 2020, 48pc, were used imports from the UK.
Warnock wins, Campos-Duffy explains why, and ACORN founder Rathke celebrates
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January 7, 2021
Only the ruler of the People s Republic of China may be even more thrilled than Rathke, who smartly calls the Biden-Harris team middle road.
On Fox News this morning Rachel Campos-Duffy answered a question about the significance of the Georgia Senate election results by explaining them as the result of multi-generational indoctrination and warned that socialism won in Georgia and therefore can win anywhere.
Mrs. Campos-Duffy is the wife of former Congressman Sean Duffy and, as reported in Wikipedia, the national spokesperson for the LIBRE initiative, a non-profit organization, funded by the Koch Brothers, that promotes ideas about constitutionally limited government, property rights, rule of law, economic stability, and free market capitalism to the Hispanic community.