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...Well, big companies want cheap corn. So they lobby the government, which provides subsidies to farmers, in part via preferential crop insurance....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Yes, the numbers are bigger, but the shock, while not a V is shorter and sharper than that crash, and the pre-crisis fiscal situation was strong....
...But then Bogle made a fateful mistake, merging Wellington with an aggressive young mutual fund company in Boston....
...It is here that I first meet Charles, who is chatting with the professional chef who cooks meals for residents....
...They included Aerobotics, which is applying AI to aerial photos of farms to help provide crop insurance, and Emerge, which uses machine learning to help insurers improve efficiency. ——————— Four areas...
...Some farmers, like Home Farm’s Brian and Jennifer Aldridge, have set up family investment companies to control when assets are received, and by whom....
...insurance firms under supervision by the Fed due to their banking activities – the likes of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and Nationwide Mutual Insurance – would be subject to lighter capital requirements...
...In the spring of 2013, Jobs’s successor as CEO of Apple Inc., Tim Cook, decided the company needed to borrow $17 billion. Yes, borrow....
...and Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance are among the companies shortlisted to buy a minority stake in Indonesia’s Panin Life for about $200 million, sources said. http://reut.rs/UqGs3l China snubs Norway in...
...How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In By Jim Collins Random House Business Books, £15.99 The author who told us how companies can go “from good to great” now explains how they can sink...
...That’s one of the times I suffered; that, taking on the gun lobby, trying to pass healthcare and making all the insurance companies… I carried a lot of arrows in my back in the ’94 election....
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