His tone was more optimistic than some other state media outlets' with regards to London's potential post-Brexit financial clout, pointing out that as the world's largest foreign exchange centre the city is "expected to play a major role in the international convertibility of the yuan".
But given the Mishel finding about the latter 1990s, I thought the bargaining-clout point was worth a closer look.
Annabel Goldie, their leader in Scotland, is managing to punch above her weight, but the Tories' lack of clout is pointed up by one miserable statistic: they hold just one Westminster constituency - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale.
With 439m video views in July 2014 alone – and nearly 5.9bn lifetime views for his channel – he has the clout to point fans towards whatever social network he likes to discuss the videos.
When an A-list woman celebrity has the box-office clout to point out this well-known financial fact, she nevertheless shrinks from sharing the myriad of physical and emotional abuses that occur daily and which many others, her makeup artist, for example, remain powerless to protest.
Many of the CBOT's members have dragged their feet over reform, in part because they are wedded to their pits, but also because its commodities traders, who have a lot of clout, see no point in reforms that would mainly benefit the big traders of financial products, nearly all of whom would prefer to see business go electronic.Not that either Chicago exchange has sat on its hands.
A hit on the clout itself scores 6 points.
Consigned to the undercard on Six Nations Dénouement Day, Martin Johnson's England managed to summon sufficient attacking clout to get the points they required to finish their campaign with winning momentum.
"Gallo's set up to make money from low-priced wines via their vertical integration and distribution strength and clout across all price points.
Disney's goal is to increase efficiency — and its clout — by having one point of contact: Mr. Chapek.
