ARTHUR W. THOMS

February 5, 2024

ReviewBiography and memoir

The Maverick — George Weidenfeld, publisher to saints and sinners

...Saints or sinners, newsworthy names found a welcoming home between W&N covers....

September 27, 2023

FT Live

Future of Asset Management Europe

New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence

How To Spend It In...

Broadcaster Gemma Cairney’s guide to Edinburgh

...For vintage fashion, I love W Armstrong & Son, which has various sites across the city....

July 28, 2023

Transcript

Transcript: The dilemma of the supercompany

...So, W Brian Arthur, in his famous paper on this topic, talks about the “halls of production”, which is like the stable world of production businesses, and the “casino of technology” where you just don’t...

February 15, 2024

FT Magazine

The outlandish double life of an American conman in Scotland

..., Timothy Knight Brown and Arthur W Knight Brown....

January 20, 2023

US-China trade dispute

China starts retaliation against foreign groups after US-led tech blockade

...The restrictions could also be used as leverage to bargain for a loosening of semiconductor controls, said Arthur Kroeber, head of research at Gavekal Dragonomics, a Beijing consultancy....

April 17, 2023

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

Gun control

Senators agree on modest US gun reforms in wake of shootings

...Democratic senators Chris Murphy of Connecticut and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Republicans John Cornyn of Texas and North Carolina’s Thom Tillis spearheaded the efforts....

June 12, 2022

News in-depthNational Rifle Association

NRA puts its political power on show in Texas after school shooting

...Thom Tillis, the Republican senator from North Carolina, who has been helped by $5.6mn of NRA spending, said last week: “We need to avoid . . . the reflexive reaction we have to say this could all be solved...

May 28, 2022

Private investing

Looking for alternatives: the investment trust route

...“I’ve known quite a lot of fund managers who thought risk was spelt R.E.W.A.R.D,” says Arthur Copple, chair of Temple Bar investment trust....

November 11, 2022

Supreme Court US

Biden’s Supreme Court nominee emphasises ‘neutral’ approach to cases

...Thom Tillis, a Republican senator from North Carolina, also praised Jackson’s temperament, upbringing and honesty....

March 21, 2022

Merryn Somerset Webb

Uncomfortable echoes of the 1970s

...Britain in the 1970s by Alwyn W. Turner and State of Emergency: The Way We Were 1970- 1974 by Dominic Sandbrook....

July 8, 2022

UnhedgedRobert Armstrong

No, you did not see the Netflix mess coming

...Now I have internalised a lot more stuff about zero marginal costs, first- mover advantages, natural monopolies, W. Brian Arthur, limp antitrust enforcement, cost of capital differentials, and so on....

April 21, 2022

Unhedged

Winner takes all investing Premium

...The granddaddy of all papers on this topic is W. Brian Arthur’s “Increasing Returns and the New World of Business,” published a quarter century ago....

October 25, 2021

Federal Reserve succession

‘A dangerous man’: the messy politics of Fed chair nominations

...George W Bush George W Bush came into office in 2001 with Alan Greenspan serving in his fourth term as chair of the Fed....

November 12, 2021

ReviewHistory books

The Ruin of All Witches by Malcolm Gaskill — malevolent forces

...But buried in the jolly list of “Fifty Springfield Firsts” — between the founding of the Campfire Girls and Thornton W Burgess’s Peter Cottontail — is a mysterious reference....

October 28, 2021

FT Live

Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific

Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region

The Aesthete

Ken Fulk: ‘I dress up every single day – and have done since I was a kid’

...The podcast I’m listening to is Bring a Friend with Anne Devereux-Mills, Adimika Arthur and Arielle Fuller....

October 9, 2021

Style

Shorts in the office: can it be done?

...Subscribe on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen Letter in response to this article: Bermudians know how to look smart in shorts / From Peter W Gerrard, Kehlen, Luxembourg...

January 12, 2021

US & Canadian companies

US executives brace for more corporate prosecutions under Biden

...Criminal cases against companies declined from 1,690 during the administration of George W Bush to 1,418 under Barack Obama to about 383 during the four years of the Trump administration, according to a...

January 24, 2021

ObituaryGeorge P. Shultz

Obituary: George Shultz, Reagan’s secretary of state, 1920-2021

...Shultz’s death was announced on Sunday by the Hoover Institution, where he was the Thomas W and Susan B Ford Distinguished Fellow....

February 7, 2021

Letter

Letter: Britain must reprise its objectivity on Hong Kong

...Leo Amery famously called out to Arthur Greenwood to “Speak for England” rather than for just the Labour party in a Commons debate in 1939....

July 29, 2020

News in-depthUS presidential election 2020

Trump struggles to find legal firepower for vote challenges

...The lawyers representing Al Gore and George W Bush — David Boies, who took on Microsoft in a landmark antitrust trial, versus Ted Olson, a partner at Gibson Dunn with numerous high court cases under his...

November 14, 2020

Federal Reserve

Fed’s Powell is chief cheerleader for fiscal stimulus

...In the early 1970s, Arthur Burns pressed for wage and price controls, to the chagrin of Richard Nixon....

October 11, 2020

News in-depthUS politics & policy

Trump plays law and order card with Portland crackdown

...The first head of the DHS, Tom Ridge, who was appointed by George W Bush, has also criticised the deployment of the department’s forces....

July 24, 2020

Emma Jacobs

Homeworking is depriving me of juicy gossip

...Almost four months into homeworking and I’d like to say that I miss chance discussions with colleagues about the shape of the economic recovery (U, V or W) or the creativity sparked by serendipitous chat...

July 12, 2020

HTSI

The 21 best menswear stores in the world

...SC 51 W Jackson Boulevard, IL 60604; optimo.com...

September 16, 2020

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