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...Qawwali is believed to have been created by Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), a talented Sufi poet and composer, and in the Sufi shrines of Pakistan and India, qawwali music can be heard on a Thursday evening, the...
...This, as I understand it, is one upshot of the work of people such as Atif Mian, Ludwig Straub and Amir Sufi; and Michael Pettis and Matthew Klein....
...But all this takes time, Nicole Miller, Biomimicry 3.8’s managing director, told me....
...MS&S prefer the inequality explanation for two reasons....
...The S&P 500 has risen to within 5 per cent of its all-time high. Most importantly, it is wrong to dismiss worries about the disconnect between the stock and political unrest....
...M&S’s food arm had a stronger year, posting operating profit growth of 11.2 per cent to £237m....
...Corey Annand remains an enchanting, light-footed heroine and Angelo Smimmo, Amir Giles and Faith Prendergast share the other eight roles with nifty versatility....
...More than $90bn of CLOs have been refinanced this year, according to data from LCD, a unit of S&P Global....
...Until five years ago, Amir Kabel says it was hard to get companies fired up about ethnic diversity....
...The economists Atif Mian and Amir Sufi found a higher propensity to borrow and spend among lower-income earners in the years before the crisis, raising the question of whether broad-based economic growth...
...Two of 2014’s most controversial books – Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century and Michael Lewis’s Flash Boys – will go head to head in an attempt to become the Financial Times’s 10th business...
...Brooklyn-based Byron Kim offered small painted skies that served as surfaces for his scribbled diaries; some thoughts were profound, others rooted in youthful narcissism, yet all recalled T S Eliot’s lines...
...House of Debt by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi was a finalist this year....
...Obst produced Interstellar, alongside Christopher Nolan and Emma Thomas, one of 2014’s rare original hits....
...OVERNIGHT MARKETS Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -221.32 (-1.45%) at 15,079 Topix down -20.09 (-1.62%) at 1,223 Hang Seng up +174.79 (+0.76%) at 23,318 ASX 200 up +60.10 (+1.17%) at 5,216 US markets S&...
...In their magnificent book House of Debt, Atif Mian and Amir Sufi find that what is outwardly disguised as a credit crunch is in reality a fall in demand for loans....
...To the non-economist layman (like me), the presence of Amir Sufi on several panels was also welcome. Last year I recommended “House of Debt”, the book co-authored by Sufi and Atif Mian....
...However, expectations for rising rates, depending on how the Federal Reserve acts, have led to a rotation away from telecoms stocks,” said Amir Rozwadowski, an analyst at Barclays....
...… House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent it from Happening Again, by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, University of Chicago Press, RRP£18/ $26 In this important...
...The financial sector of the S&P 500 fell 3.8 per cent over the week, led down by investment banks....
...James Walton writes and chairs Radio 4’s literary quiz, ‘The Write Stuff’ ………………………………………….. Answers Round One: Firsts 1....
...There has been a succession of “they”s, but none is present onstage, with the exception of a Yorkshire squaddie in the final days of the Mandate, 1947-48....
...“They behave as if they are the opposition without having the capacity to be the opposition,” says Amir Mohebbian, a moderate conservative commentator....
...He once told a former colleague that he added “um”s and “er”s to his speech at school because he was scaring the other children....
...At present US house prices are down about 19 per cent on the S&P Case Shiller index, but only 5 per cent on the government’s purchase-only index....
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