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Leaked Uber Files reveal history of lawbreaking, lobbying and exploiting violence against drivers

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But Macron, who in 2014 had just been appointed minister for the economy, thought Uber would help create new jobs and economic growth. “Uber will provide an outline for a regulatory framework for ridesharing,” an email from Kalanick to Macron reads. French taxi drivers staged protests that often turned violent.

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Nearly one-third of the 61% of total global petroleum and other liquids production that moved on maritime routes in 2015 transited the Strait of Malacca, the second-largest oil trade chokepoint in the world after the Strait of Hormuz. Given that Chinese growth is debt-financed, the PBOC would be called upon to tighten financial conditions.

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