Hints and tips:
...The risk is that they don’t and other markets like China do,” said CEO Gerard Barron....
...Trump was always phoning Forbes magazine (sometimes posing as the fictional public-relations adviser “John Barron”) to boost his position on its billionaires’ ranking....
...Justice Juan Merchan, who is overseeing the case, declined to guarantee that Trump would have Wednesdays free for campaign events, or that he would be excused to attend his son Barron’s high school graduation...
...He spoke fondly of his late mother-in-law (whose home cooking, he joked, had fuelled 17-year-old Barron Trump’s towering height); he called his rivals “very smart people, very capable people”; he repeatedly...
...He was also funny, which he can be when not on the defensive, joking about Barron’s athletic choices and how tall he’d gotten eating grandma’s food and so on....
...Early in his career, Trump would call reporters with tips about himself using an assumed name, “John Barron”....
...“OK, anyone Toni says can come,” Trump says, before walking off towards the living quarters he shares with his wife Melania and their son Barron....
...But even as we head into an election cycle, we think the Trump/pandemic news boom could fizzle, particularly under the kind of “new new normal” scenario we are betting on....
...(Barron’s) What else we’re reading Will Europe sign up to Joe Biden’s plan to counter China?...
...Mr Trump’s wife Melania and son Barron also caught the disease. On Tuesday, Mr Meadows joined hundreds of people who attended a post-election party in the White House....
...Chris Barron, a spokesperson for the group, wrote on Twitter....
...Until the Trump era, Hubbard, the former dean of Columbia Business School, used to epitomise Republican economic policy....
...“I know some colleagues would rather play top trumps with our force numbers,” he told MPs....
...Private equity excesses are the reason why a business founded two years after the signing of the US Declaration of Independence has fallen prey to one that’s the same age as Barron Trump, the ex-US president...
...She has largely avoided speeches and events in favour of staying behind the scenes with the couple’s 14-year-old son, Barron....
...Here’s What Investors Can Do Instead to Fight Climate Change (Barron’s) This Thai national park was tired of visitors leaving trash, so the government mailed it back to them (Washington Post) *This article...
...To be clear, this is not solely a Trump issue....
...Donald Trump is visiting states he won four years ago rather than those he hopes to “flip” in the closing weeks of the campaign and Barron Trump tested positive for coronavirus, the first lady confirmed....
...(Barron’s) What else we’re reading A new cold war: the great uncoupling Donald Trump’s push to “decouple” the US economy from China and pandemic disruption are forcing manufacturers to rethink their reliance...
...(Billy Nauman) Trump administration targets ESG. (Yet) again....
...(FT, Barron’s) What else we’re reading The last oil frontier Oil exploration is a risky, time-consuming and expensive endeavour....
...(Barron’s) CEOs increasingly see sustainability as path to profitability (WSJ)...
...’s son Barron is a student, as recipients of PPP loans....
...Chart of the day Despite efforts by the Trump administration to chill ESG investing, investors in October poured a record $36bn into sustainability funds, according to Morgan Stanley....
...Please read Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson’s report on corporate America breaking up with Mr Trump here....
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