The Prime Minister struck a defiant note in the face of persistently dire polling for the Tories ahead of Thursday’s contest.
The Russian central bank will hike rates by 200 basis points to 18% later this month as it tries to quell stubbornly high inflation that analysts now expect to end 2024 well above the bank's 4% target, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday. The economy ministry reported annual consumer inflation at 8.61% as of June 24. Ten of 16 analysts and economists polled by Reuters in late June and early July predicted that the Bank of Russia would raise its key rate to 18% on July 26.
Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup helped invent rock ‘n’ roll. Despite being dubbed “the father of rock ‘n’ roll,” Crudup received scant songwriting royalties in his lifetime because of a recording contract that funneled the money to his original manager. Crudup died 50 years ago, leaving behind one of the starker accounts of 20th century artist exploitation.