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Former UK Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch has entered the race to lead the Conservative Party, following their worst election defeat in history. Badenoch aims to "renew" the party and return to government in 2030. She emphasizes the importance of confident principles about how the economy should work and advocates for a renewal of capitalism. Badenoch is currently the frontrunner, with bookmakers giving her odds of roughly 2/1. She will be competing against five other candidates, with Conservative members of Parliament narrowing the field to four by the end of September. The new leader will be announced on November 2nd. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Conservative leadership front-runner Liz Truss has ruled out a fresh windfall tax on energy companies if she becomes prime minister, insisting profit is not a "dirty word." Read more: Boris Johnson Meets Energy Firms as UK Winter Crisis Looms Ministers would "evaluate the extraordinary profits seen in certain parts of the electricity generation sector and the appropriate and proportionate steps to take", Zahawi said. [Extracted from the article]

Cassava FlourThis gluten-free flour is produced from the root vegetable yucca, also known as cassava. (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- The Texas wagyu tri-tip is as popular as you'd expect it to be at the Well, a 20-minute walk from the state Capitol building in Austin. The tacos at the restaurant use tortillas fashioned from cassava flour, which, unlike white flour, is gluten-free, higher in protein and fiber, and lower in calories. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic said this year's inflation surge is lasting longer than policymakers expected, so it's not appropriate to refer to such price increases as transitory. Transitory Is "Dirty Word" as Inflation Lasts, Fed's Bostic Says "These upside risks to the inflation outlook bear watching closely", Bostic said. [Extracted from the article]

Transitory Is "Dirty Word" as Inflation Lasts, Fed's Bostic Says "These upside risks to the inflation outlook bear watching closely", Bostic said. (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic said this year's inflation surge is lasting longer than policymakers expected, so it's not appropriate to refer to such price increases as transitory. [Extracted from the article]

Like its counterparts elsewhere in Europe, Germany's Social Democratic Party has struggled to find the antidote for a tidal wave of anti-immigration sentiment and to stop the Greens sopping young environmentally-conscious voters. The Greens could potentially displace the SPD in the coalition down the line. "If they move further to the left, the SPD will stop being a people's party", warned Andrea Roemmele, professor of political communication at the Berlin-based Hertie School. [Extracted from the article]

Reports that opponents of obscenity on the U.S. airwaves are pushing for a crackdown in the wake of the Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" incident at the Super Bowl earlier this year. Comments by Rep. Doug Ose of California, who introduced legislation to strike from broadcasts seven dirty words; Details of efforts to increase penalties on broadcasters and extend indecency rules to cable and satellite TV; Claim that most of the agitation for decency standards comes from conservative Republicans, but many congressional Democrats are backing several of the bills; Speculation that tighter legislation could revolutionize the airwaves if TV violence falls under indecency rules; Reaction of FCC head Michael K. Powell and the broadcasting industry to the decency campaign.

Several businesses over the years have balked at investing in Asbestos because of its name, including a manufacturer that refused as recently as September, Mayor Hugues Grimard said in a phone interview. Now the city council, which initially tried to merge with a nearby town until talks collapsed over taxation, wants citizens to be involved in the search for a new name. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Canada's beleaguered energy sector suffered another morale blow as Encana Corp. -- one of its marquee companies that was born out of the 19th-century railway boom -- announced plans to move its headquarters to the U.S. and drop the link to Canada from its name. Last quarter, he lamented on the company's earnings conference call that Encana shares hadn't yet achieved the valuation worthy of a "premium" exploration and development company. ARC's Van Wielingen declined to speculate on whether other companies may follow Encana's lead and decamp from Canada, but noted that investors already are asking the country's remaining large producers some tough questions. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Canada's beleaguered energy sector suffered another morale blow as Encana Corp. -- one of its marquee companies that was born out of the 19th-century railway boom -- announced plans to move its headquarters to the U.S. and drop the link to Canada from its name. Last quarter, he lamented on the company's earnings conference call that Encana shares hadn't yet achieved the valuation worthy of a "premium" exploration and development company. Encana said Thursday the U.S. move will expose it to larger pools of investment including American index funds and passively managed accounts, and better align the company with U.S. peers. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Canada's beleaguered energy sector suffered another morale blow as Encana Corp. -- one of its marquee companies that was born out of the 19th-century railway boom -- announced plans to move its headquarters to the U.S. and drop the link to Canada from its name. In March of last year, Suttles moved to Denver and said in November that he envisioned Encana as a "headquarterless" company. Last quarter, he lamented on the company's earnings conference call that Encana shares hadn't yet achieved the valuation worthy of a "premium" exploration and development company. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Canada's beleaguered energy sector suffered another morale blow as Encana Corp. -- one of its marquee companies that was born out of the 19th-century railway boom -- announced plans to move its headquarters to the U.S. and drop the link to Canada from its name. In March of last year, Suttles moved to Denver and said in November that he envisioned Encana as a "headquarterless" company. Last quarter, he lamented on the company's earnings conference call that Encana shares hadn't yet achieved the valuation worthy of a "premium" exploration and development company. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Encana Corp. will establish a corporate domicile in the U.S. as the Calgary-based oil explorer boosts production in Texas and Oklahoma. Encana reported a third-quarter adjusted operating earnings that were in line with estimates. Encana isn't the only Calgary-based energy company to pursue a rebranding that deemphasizes its Canadian origins. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Sunday Strategist: Glossier's Billion-Dollar Brain Balm Sunday Strategist: Glossier's Billion-Dollar Brain Balm This is a limited-time free trial of Sunday Strategist, a new subscriber-only weekly newsletter from Bloomberg Businessweek that takes an insightful look at the boldest business bets of the week. [Extracted from the article]

Focuses on the substitution of politicians names for dirty words on the Internet to circumvent possible federal curbs on cybersmut. Senate's telecommunication reform bill imposing fines and jail terms for posting pornographic images and use of indecent language on electronic mail; Robert Carr's stealth smut program.

Boris Johnson has decided not to quit as foreign secretary over U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's soft Brexit plan because he wants to remain in Cabinet and fight for the divorce he wants, according to a person familiar with his thinking. The reason, according to the person who spoke on condition of anonymity, is that Johnson believes May would have gone for an even closer relationship with the EU if he hadn't been making the case against it. [Extracted from the article]

The country's state-heavy economy was roaring, buoyed by the global commodity boom, prompting Lula to later declare, "God is Brazilian." Among legislators, support for divesting state assets has also been lukewarm - not surprising, considering that politicians often reward supporters with jobs at state-owned companies. Amid corruption and the nation's worst recession, presidential candidates raise the prospect of selling off state-owned companies. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg View) -- How "Supply" Became a Dirty Word in Economics: Noah Smith In economic modeling terms, "supply-side" is a nerdy reference to the idea that the total amount of goods and services produced in the economy -- called aggregate supply -- is constant, and doesn't depend on inflation. Even simple economic theory offers a number of reasons why government intervention in the economy can raise aggregate supply rather than lowering it. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Europe the Most Globalized at a Time Globalization Is a Dirty Word The Netherlands and Germany score high and have elections coming up Attribution Josh Robinson: author Flavia Krause-Jackson: editor Nikolaj Gammeltoft: editor. [Extracted from the article]

Now, the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin is charging Morgan Stanley Smith Barney with running an "unethical sales contest to cross-sell banking business to brokerage customers". The firm allegedly downplayed the risks of the loans, such as the possibility that Morgan Stanley may liquidate clients' positions without notification under certain circumstances. [Extracted from the article]

Analysts stick with falling stocks even after investors bail Analysts' median price targets for pharmaceutical companies are an average of about 53 percent higher than the actual stock prices even though shares of those companies have dropped almost a quarter since July 20. The firm's equity research team studied price targets for the biotech industry and found they had little to no predictive value. [Extracted from the article]

It's a signal of the upside-down nature of the current political campaign that Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders had a dust-up over exactly that question. The Clinton campaign hastened to assure Democrats that the groups were nothing of the kind: "If an organization like Planned Parenthood really were part of the establishment, Democrats wouldn't have to work so hard to defend it against Republican attacks." Clinton and Sanders, like Republican candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and many others, like to say that they are running against the Establishment. [Extracted from the article]

(Adds comment by Tsipras in 10th paragraph. "It's a misunderstanding that Syriza has a hard line", said Vassilis Fouskas, a professor at the University of East London who has been with the party since its inception and identifies with Syriza's left. It's also why the EU's rejection of Syriza's Keynesian proposals, considered quite modest by the party's standards, in turn arouses astonishment within the party. [Extracted from the article]

The campaign against dirty words -- announced during a government cybersecurity conference in Beijing -- is the latest bid under President Xi Jinping to sanitize China's Internet. "The government has to rely on the Internet companies to do so, but such micromanagement of cyberspace has the potential risk of turning the booming Internet industry into a backwater". [Extracted from the article]

The anger in China is rising in tandem with the 10-fold surge in vehicle ownership over the past decade, causing motorists to fight for everything from parking spaces to right of way. The Chengdu beating isn't even the most violent case of road rage in China this month. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg View) -- Liberals Try to Make "Profit" a Dirty Word: Stephen L. Carter The only reasonable interpretation is that the fundraisers believe -- or believe that their targets believe -- that there is something wrong with profit, that the proprietors of a for-profit firm are less admirable than those who run companies pursuing other goals. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg View) -- How "Keynes" Came to Mean "Socialist" or "Liberal": Noah Smith And more importantly, John Maynard Keynes himself was in favor of some amount of wealth redistribution and government intervention in the economy. Instead of saying Keynes' theories were wrong, Hayek prophesied that Keynesian stabilization policies would lead down the slippery slope to totalitarianism. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on a study of 1.2 million U.S. consumer calls from March 2012 to November 2013 conducted by Marchex, which found that housing contractors and cable-TV companies illicit profanity from their customers. The study found that customers swearing were one out 82 calls to satellite TV providers.

The article reports on Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jim Hagedorn, who had to apologize for using filthy language. Hagedorn's use of profanity in language led to a reprimand from the board of the firm. In a statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Hagedorn said he recognized that his comments were inappropriate.

Presents news briefs about mass media and the arts in the U.S. as of December 2004. Benefits of podcasting technology for owners of audio players; Implication of the ban of obscene words in prime-time television programs for broadcasters by the Federal Communications Commission; Information on LiTraCon, an architectural innovation invented by Aron Losonczi.