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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...In “Shareholder Wealth Enhancement, 1926 to 2022”, Bessembinder, professor at Arizona State University, found that while over the study period stocks created a huge amount of wealth ($55tn!)...
...Ethan WuAnd Cliff asked us himself, actually studied under the aforementioned Fama of the Fama-French model at the University of Chicago....
...Next stop was Rock Creek; that was high too. Though we were wise to stay at The Ranch at Rock Creek....
...In 2002, Li invested in BYD, then a little-known maker of electric batteries....
...In downtown Little Rock, a chorus echoes around the room at Willy D’s Rock & Roll Piano Bar as groups of friends clutching beers and each other sing along to the soul hit “Stand By Me”....
...Except for ageing — he is now, at 74, the court’s most senior judge — little about him has changed....
...Having previously been forbidden from going to university, now estranged from her parents, she enrolled to study film at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos in Mexico City, but quickly...
...Next week we spend the whole episode on the likely repeal of Roe v Wade and the right to abortion in America....
...The project has covered “rust-belt” cities such as Detroit, one of the first urban areas to reorganise around the automobile, but also places such as Little Rock, Arkansas and Houston, Texas....
...of a little twist....
...Byrne is best known for his big film roles — he made his name as the leading man in the Coen brothers’ mobster movie Miller’s Crossing, and later in Gillian Armstrong’s adaptation of Little Women (the book...
...But the city “had a lack of big thinking, very little risk taking”, he said....
...Panicos Demetriades, professor of financial economics at the University of Leicester: I think this is unlikely....
...“Textiles, paper mills, lumber mills, all these places in southern and eastern Arkansas,” said Mervin Jebaraj, director of the Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Arkansas....
...I assume, given the leaving-do concert and the abortive music career (which he quit for the not-very-rock-‘n’-roll option of studying commerce at Edinburgh University) that he must be a passionate musician...
...“What’s going on is a little deceptive,” says Logsdon, of George Washington University. “[The 2024 mission] is basically a one-off thing.”...
...(FT) Macron’s ‘second Act’ Emmanuel Macron has lost little of the ambition displayed in the first half of his five-year mandate....
...Was the surface rock or quicksand? Rocky and cratered, it turned out....
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...I was judging an illustration thing at the V&A and I thought, ‘I’ll get there early because they’ve got one box of jewellery that’s been found.’”...
...A little way off, there are rocks. In front of me, a figure wearing what looks like a north African djellaba trudges alone through the landscape....
...It’s 25 years ago this month that the boy from Hope, Arkansas, was elected president of the US — an event that he celebrated from the steps of the Old State House in Little Rock with the resonant pay-off...
...And the most vulnerable are the poor — those living in areas that, according to a new study by the University of Arkansas, already have an “ecology of disadvantage”....
...The bookish son of two grocers had little interest in the world of money....
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