Billy W Rhoades

FT SeriesTen ways to feel good in 2024

The second coming of the shag-pile carpet

...“They had a bad time in the 1980s, but I love the 1920s and 1930s era, which are very Duchess of Devonshire and W Somerset Maugham. It’s really all about context.”...

January 3, 2024

Lunch with the FT

Jon Stewart: ‘Ain’t nothing as agile as authoritarian regimes’

...There are also framed photographs of various celebrity guests, including Nicolas Cage, the formerly famous and not very good rapper Vanilla Ice and, by my table, a young Billy Crystal....

October 28, 2022

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Moral Money

Fossil fuel divestment movement celebrates IEA’s ‘change of heart’ Premium

...He advised president George W Bush and was a highly respected champion of the type of free-market ideas espoused by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher....

May 19, 2021

Liverpool Football Club

Liverpool FC and Boston Red Sox owner looks at stock market listing

...Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates, two former officials in the George W Bush administration, are advising RedBall on the transaction....

October 10, 2020

John Henry (Businessperson)

John Henry: a data-driven sports fan ponders the stock market

...The two people who brought a numbers-driven approach to the sport “were Billy Beane and John Henry”. Ted Parkhill, managing partner of Incline Investment Advisors, worked at John W....

October 16, 2020

FT Magazine

Why US evangelicals are flocking to Trump

...Candidates such as George H W Bush and George W Bush actively courted the community’s vote. But the arrival in 2015 of the unconventional Trump threatened to disrupt this relationship....

October 2, 2020

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

ESG investing

Money market fund managers bet on a surge in demand for ESG products

...“[W]e feel like the validity of our [credit analysis] process now, with this new input from Hermes, is even better than what it has been historically,” Debbie Cunningham, Federated’s chief investment officer...

October 21, 2019

US politics & policy

Voters await results for primary races in NY and Kentucky

...It’s closed polling sites + 6 hr waits w/o pay. Covid is no excuse.”...

June 24, 2020

News in-depthUS politics & policy

Trump plays law and order card with Portland crackdown

...The first head of the DHS, Tom Ridge, who was appointed by George W Bush, has also criticised the deployment of the department’s forces....

July 24, 2020

Moral Money

Moral Money: Ultra-wealthy investors turn up heat on fossil-fuel funders

...Last week marked the 19th anniversary of one such event: the landmark Supreme Court decision handing the US presidency to George W Bush over Al Gore....

December 18, 2019

Scoreboard

Scoreboard: Game theory provides an answer to sport’s doping scandals Premium

...Peter Moore, the chief executive of Liverpool, the newly crowned Premier League champions, will be replaced by Billy Hogan, the club’s chief commercial officer, who has worked for owner John W Henry’s Fenway...

August 1, 2020

Peter Spiegel

‘Afghanistan Papers’ shed light on Biden’s role in America’s longest war

...Brothers and sons including Billy Carter, Neil Bush, Hugh Rodham and, most recently, Donald Trump Jr have all rightfully faced some of the same questions now being thrown at Hunter Biden....

December 23, 2019

FirstFT

FirstFT: Today’s top stories

...Join Moral Money’s Gillian Tett and Billy Nauman and management editor Andrew Hill for a live Q&A throughout Thursday, May 7....

May 7, 2020

House & Home

Hillsborough Castle opens its royal doors to all

...Yet this portrait is not the image reproduced on banners and murals throughout the province of “King Billy” on a white horse, but instead shows a prepubescent boy in dress-like “coats”....

April 19, 2019

Janan Ganesh

Donald Trump’s earthly bargain with the evangelical right

...He won a larger share of white evangelicals than George W Bush in 2004 or Mitt Romney in 2012, both of whom were, to put it at its least, more obviously men of the book....

September 5, 2018

FT Live

Investing in America

Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness

Life & Arts

Welcome to the age of the hoax

...Billy McFarland, the festival organiser, is currently serving a six-year prison sentence for fraud....

February 15, 2019

Sebastian Payne

Opinion today: Three questions for Jay Powell

...Best of the rest How Billy Graham Changed My Life — George W. Bush in the Wall Street Journal Embracing soft Brexit would be risky for Corbyn....

February 26, 2018

News in-depthUS healthcare reform

Trump raises pressure on Mitch McConnell over failed reforms

...“He’s always thinking down the road,” says Billy Piper, Mr McConnell’s former chief of staff....

August 11, 2017

US healthcare reform

Republicans bogged down in healthcare quagmire

...“You’ll remember the adage that the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” says Tevi Troy, deputy health secretary under George W Bush and now head of the American Health Policy Institute....

June 30, 2017

Person in the NewsGary Silverman

Laura Wasser, Hollywood lawyer born to the business

...She also represented the star of such films as Girl, Interrupted and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider during her divorce from fellow actor Billy Bob Thornton....

September 23, 2016

News in-depthUS presidential election

Gay Americans hope Orlando compassion does not fade

...At Tattle Tails, the lone gay bar in Port St Lucie, home to Mateen’s parents, a fiftysomething man who gave his name as Mike W said: “Now young [gay] people take it for granted, the freedom they have....

June 17, 2016

Life & Arts

Journalism in the movies

...Billy Wilder was harsher still in 1951’s Ace in the Hole. None of the sweetness of Some Like It Hot here....

January 15, 2016

US & Canadian companies

Fashion houses turn to online video

...What brands are beginning to recognise is the ability to target fashion enthusiasts when they are most interested in watching videos.”...

December 17, 2015

Life & Arts

America’s white backlash

...“Red neck” was certainly of slave coinage, as shown in the song quoted by Isenberg: “I’d druther be a Nigger, an’ plow ole Beck, Dan a white Hill Billy wid his long red neck.”...

July 15, 2016

Life & Arts

‘Regeneration’, Royal & Derngate, Northampton, UK – review

...The setting of Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh, where Sassoon was treated in 1917 by W.H.R....

September 5, 2014

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