Hints and tips:
...“Tax is a tremendous brand and I’m a big believer that you never dilute a brand that has meaningful value,” Griggs told the FT....
...“I‘m definitely not expecting the world to get rosy any time soon,” he told the Financial Times....
...His criticism led to the resignation of the then chair, Deanna Oppenheimer. Costs at the company have increased faster than revenues....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today: Economic data: Economists expect the US jobs market to add the fewest number of openings since December 2020 after almost 18 months of rising interest rates....
...Kids’ rooms do that to me when I’m on a job. I guess they’re a reminder that bad people can be good to kids....
...Barclays has named Dan Grabos as co-head of Americas M&A, alongside Larry Hamdan, in New York. He will keep his current role as co-head of industrials M&A....
...The writer is a former editor of the Financial Times As a diehard Tottenham Hotspur fan, I’m inured to disappointment....
...Now that I’m no longer a local, Singapore’s hotels feature more holistically in my experience of the city; based on what I’m travelling for (work, friends, a stopover I need to cram both into), I care about...
...“I’m insuring less than a fourth of our insurable assets,” he says. “And I’m paying four times the price that I used to pay to have full insurance for the whole property.”...
...I’m not much of a shopper, with two exceptions: good food and good books....
...I caught up with Socure CEO Johnny Ayers shortly after a $450m Series E funding round brought his company’s valuation to $4.5bn....
...airlift millions of dollars into a community — you have to be on the ground, understand their needs,” says René Jones, the son of a Belgian mother and an African-American father who is chief executive of M&...
...Deanna, who runs her own business in the US, praised the joy of naps. One reader plans to work from a holiday destination....
...“I’m not inventing anything new,” Butler says. “It’s been around for centuries.” That’s the beauty of wild beauty: it takes you back to where skincare first began....
...I’m just trying to find the right balance.”...
...His preferred candidate, an aide to vice-president Mike Pence called Nick Ayers, rejected the role....
...Also, where is the money for a business founded on the fat 15 per cent commission first instigated by the long-lost US agency NW Ayer & Son in 1905?...
...Deanna Forlini, another local auto worker, says she thinks that investigation is “bogus”....
...“I’m told that eating game is very healthy,” he says, contemplating his salad of Welsh grouse. “Even though it’s riddled with lead.”...
...Any country I’m in I try to pick up the national football shirt. What’s your summer soundtrack? Roy Ayers. If you could pack only one thing, what would it be? My dad’s Eric Cantona football shirt....
...“I’m sure this will end soon, but they just give you the money and say, ‘go make a movie’,” he told an audience at Comic-Con in San Diego last month....
...If I’m to be wholly honest, it’s how I watch movies.”...
...He was told: “I’m sorry, but that voice can’t be used anywhere. I don’t want to spoil the illusion of Snow White.”...
...I’m safe when I’m by myself.” Harris also hears from Deanna Adkins, a doctor at the clinic, whose greatest fear is the death of one of her patients....
...I don’t think that Brexit will improve these people’s lives, but no doubt I’m just a patronising out-of-touch elitist. simon.kuper@ft.com; Twitter @KuperSimon Illustration by Luis Grañena...
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