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...May 3 to 17; further information and tickets here ‘Hadestown’, CAA Ed Mirvish Theatre The Tony- and Grammy-winning musical heads to Toronto....
...*Piper Sandler’s fintech industry conference this month included Vinnie Viola, Thomas Peterffy, Howard Lutnick, Vlad Tenev, Doug Cifu, Terry Duffy, Ed Tilly, Jeff Sprecher, Adena Friedman, Billy Hult, Chris...
...A 15-mile traffic jam has joined Ed Sheeran’s collection of hefty statistics, to go with his billions of streams and 13 UK number one singles (equal to Madonna)....
...From her bedroom, Ann hears Kermit shuffle into the bathroom and close the door, hears the sound of his belt buckle, the clink of the metal clip that holds his billy club to his hip....
...I’m back in the Swamp this week, briefly filling in for Ed while he’s travelling. In Ed’s honour, I decided to delve into one of his favourite subjects: the psyche of Donald Trump....
...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....
...Bassist Billy Talbot and drummer Ralph Molina, both 78, are joined by E-Street guitarist Nils Lofgren, a longtime Young collaborator, who replaces the retired Frank “Poncho” Sampedro....
.... — Billy Nauman ‘Stupid’ companies?...
...(Billy Nauman) Olive bonds go airborne Despite the economic downturn this year, 2020 is proving to be the year green finance goes olive in colour....
...(Billy Nauman) Friedman’s 50-year legacy endures Fifty years after Milton Friedman penned the shareholder primacy doctrine, his legacy continues to send shockwaves through corporate boardrooms....
...(Billy Nauman) Familiarity breeds back-scratching in executive compensation What role have compensation consultants played in top executives’ ever-rising rewards?...
...Keith Benson, a Camden resident and president of the Camden Education Association, expressed similar scepticism about the reported crime statistics in an op-ed in Business Insider....
...(Billy Nauman) Ed note: 10 points for anyone who can spot all the Disney songs in this article Covid-19 and climate change — a summer double whammy? Coping with extreme weather events is tough....
...Now, as Lynn Forester de Rothschild argues in an FT op-ed this week, we are seeing a “chasm between corporate words and actions”....
...Joining the New York law firm, he said, would let him put into practice many of the ideas he has been espousing in academic papers, op-eds and interviews such as the one Moral Money did with him last October...
...Several CEOs of badly affected companies, from Delta Air Lines’ Ed Bastian to Heathrow’s John Holland-Kaye have already forgone some or all of their salaries and bonuses....
...Inevitably Sean has a weaker brother, Billy, as keen on drugs, squalor and orgies as Sean likes order and control. I fear for Billy....
...Today, he has expanded on the topic in an op-ed for Moral Money where he explains why stakeholders should come first, as a principle of corporate law....
...Today, Prof Schwab returned to the theme in an op-ed for Moral Money, arguing that the Covid-19 crisis has shown who has been “swimming naked” while endorsing stakeholder capitalism....
...He says he wrote the 2016 op-ed as “a cry of the heart. I wasn’t a Never Trumper. I was a non-Trump.” I say I’m not sure I understand the distinction....
...Ed Davey, acting leader of the Liberal Democrats, popped up at PMQs with two generic geometric paintings over his shoulder. A plain wall might have shown more personality....
...(Billy Nauman) Grit in the oyster Many companies and investors say they try to “do well by doing good”. As a reminder that many still fall short, here’s a little grit in the ESG oyster....
...Two FT op-eds also set out the opposing arguments here....
...Rana Foroohar responds Ed, I think your note is an excellent summary of where we are in the presidential race....
...Critics have highlighted anomalies in some data submitted by employers and called on regulators to do more to ensure accuracy....
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