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...June 23-October 22, smb.museum Carrie Mae Weems (Barbican, London) One of today’s most celebrated African-American photographers, Carrie Mae Weems has spent decades building a variegated image of the US...
...Nellie Mae Rowe’s “Pocketbook” (1982), in paint and pencil, was her final drawing after a cancer diagnosis, its indigo purse aglow with memories....
...His painting did not sustain the brilliance of “Self-portrait”, but the nostalgic sensibility yielded the marvellous Alice in Wonderland illustrations....
...The same concept is translated into furniture design and architecture, with Ninela Ivanova and Sebastian Cox’s conical lamp shades and Mae-ling Lokko’s mycelium bricks....
...The traditional melodies are sweet and sad: the sudden minor key cutting across “C’weiriwch Fy Ngwely” before the harmonium starts up; the yearning of “Pontypridd” amid Alice Coltrane-styled harp; the hymnal...
...(FT) An app by any other name Brigit assists with budgeting, Alice advises on payroll and Frank helps pay off student loans....
...Additional reporting by Stephen Foley and Alice Ross Timeline: Bill Gross and Pimco 1944: Born in Ohio 1971: Co-founds Pimco (Pacific Investment Management) 1976: Assets under management: $50m 1981:...
...“FHFA remains committed to satisfactory resolution of the remaining actions,” said the agency, which brought the action on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage companies that...
...Five years ago, the markets plunged into an Alice-in-Wonderland world....
...Alice Ross, Tobias Buck, Matt Steinglass and Patrick Jenkins...
...Add Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored housing agencies, and Citigroup calculates US general government debt is 130 per cent of GDP, getting close to Greek levels....
...Today we hear little of Vanessa-Mae, the once ubiquitous violinist. Child prodigies are, of course, nothing new....
...The lack of hard numbers to measure the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac impact is very troubling indeed. Alice woke up from her dream, got up and walked away....
...The stock market rally following the US bail-out of its stricken mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was shortlived, as investors turned their attention to other failing institutions: Lehman Brothers...
...In spite of the US government’s takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the subsequent rally in UK bank stocks earlier this week, the mood of analysts and fund managers towards the financials...
...It bounced back on Monday following the US bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the stricken mortgage companies, amid hopes that the measure would free up lending in the wider market....
...The sequence of events that led to this extraordinary socialisation of finance began with the de facto nationalisation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the bankrupt government-sponsored mortgage lenders at...
...“Applying political pressure on the Fed to change monetary policy is almost always counterproductive,” said Alice Rivlin, a former deputy chairman of the Fed now at the Brookings Institution....
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