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...Brad Stone, ‘The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon’ (2013) Favourite: Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller Sr, by Ron Chernow....
...Having 11 people around you while you are individually picking caviar pearls was hilarious, especially with chopsticks!” Hospitality plays a major role at Aynho, as it does at many of RH’s galleries....
...Brad Schneider, a Democratic member of Congress from an Illinois district north of Chicago and a strong supporter of Israel, welcomed the pause given that many of his constituents are worried about the reforms...
...As Brad DeLong puts it in his excellent book, Slouching Towards Utopia, the view is that “the market giveth, the market taketh away; blessed be the name of the market”....
...Jonathan Friedman, its director of free expression and education programmes, said: “We have continued to see an avalanche of ongoing book bans and censorship tactics have become more aggressive.”...
...The old orthodoxy, Milton Friedman’s idea that “the social responsibility of a business is to increase its profits”, was going out of fashion — at least in theory....
...In his customarily effusive manner, the veteran former Conservative minister — and perma party plotter — greets them all individually....
...Individually, the new recruits are beginning to outscore their male counterparts in both “hard” and “soft” leadership skills....
...EQT and Antin do not publish how much money their most senior executives individually make in carried interest. Bridgepoint listed in London this year without making the disclosure....
...Or maybe the Ozy board was simply impressed with the credentials of the firm’s chair Brad Karp....
...“An antique frame can give works a more unique sense of identity,” says Brad Shar at New York framers Lowy, which framed Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi, the most expensive artwork ever sold....
...I submit that, until we have a progressive tax system with the rich paying a higher marginal tax rate, that it will neither be possible “[to] act collectively as well as individually”, nor to “[act together...
...Job moves Citigroup’s head of risk Brad Hu will step down after a series of run-ins with regulators....
...By empowering local organisations and giving people the ability to make more choices individually, he believes that we can help mitigate populism, and create more vibrant and sustainable communities outside...
...The Keynesian era was then followed by that of Milton Friedman, characterised by globalisation, liberalised markets, low marginal taxes and a focus on controlling inflation....
...Luigi Zingales argues Milton Friedman’s notion that a company’s only duty is to maximise value for shareholders is mistaken. Shareholder welfare, not value, should be the priority, he writes....
...Mr Friedman’s fixed salary is cut and the bonus pool of the management board is capped....
...That is a question, too, for Friedman, whose bestseller on globalisation was the first Business Book of the Year in 2005....
...Her legal team circumvented this rule by suing Ailes individually for violating New York City’s human rights law. Fox settled with Ms Carlson for $20m and issued a public apology....
...Another polymath, Brad DeLong (former Clinton staffer and tireless scourge of rightwing bunkum), had spent some minutes producing a few hundred words on “the intellectual role of the economist in public...
...Brad DeLong has taken exception to Ann Pettifor’s Polanyian reading of why a majority voted for the UK to leave the EU....
...Nor does it reach all households in the way Friedman’s helicopter drop would....
...Brad DeLong is quite right that this is a good time to pick up Ben Friedman’s prescient pre-crisis work on the moral consequences of economic growth....
...Brad DeLong has an overly clever recipe for how this could be done, of which the first step is: “Incorporate — for free — everybody with a Social Security number as a bank holding company.”...
...Brad Delong has an elegant trick to answer this question: compare the gap between the actual output produced in America today against what people were predicting in 2007....
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