Hints and tips:
...The CFTC, for example, objected to the following markets, among others: will Pope Francis vacate the papacy? Will Caitlyn Jenner address the Republican National Convention?...
...Jessica Rixom, Erick Mas and Brett Rixom found, surprisingly, that a sloppily wrapped present from a friend may be more appreciated than something more Instagrammable....
...Brett Scott, a former broker turned “financial anthropologist”, looks ahead to a world of only cashless transactions in Cloudmoney (Bodley Head, May) and asks who wins — and who loses....
...“You see lots of young people here now, doing what we call the tree-change,” says Brett....
...Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who joined the court last year, had dissented in favour of Mr Lorenzo while he was still a judge on the appeals court that had previously heard the case....
...“Ted’s opponent in this race is a stone-cold phoney named Robert Francis O’Rourke, sometimes referred to as Beto,” Mr Trump said on Monday....
...Even Pope Francis has criticised the derivatives, and one of Dodd-Frank’s ambitions was to give regulators and the public more insight into the market....
...His intervention in the Brett Kavanaugh hearing only helped the judge to be confirmed to the Supreme Court....
...Brett says, “A good 20 of Johns’ paintings [included in the current exhibition] at the Royal Academy have George Ohrs in them.”...
...This time last year, Brett Gorvy, Christie’s then head of postwar and contemporary art, left after 23 years to join forces with art dealer Dominique Lévy....
...At the time, that meant making feature films, in the tradition of his idols: auteurs such as Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski....
...A morale-boosting 89 per cent of the lots found buyers, and big prices were set for blue-chip British names: David Hockney, Lucian Freud, Peter Doig and Francis Bacon....
...Francis Lennon, head of Dunblane High School, said 16 and 17-year-olds “are certainly as capable as any other part of the electorate to properly engage with political issues....
...Not long ago I asked Brett Gorvy, head of contemporary art at auction house Christie’s, to estimate the current value of Damien Hirst’s shark – the beast that floats in a tank of formaldehyde and is named...
...Sir, With reference to Lucy Kellaway’s column “A cure for the pangs of cyber comparisons” (September 2): the novelist Francis Brett Young, in his verse history of Britain The Island – a fascinating book...
...Leading the sale was Francis Bacon’s “Portrait of George Dyer Talking” (1966), estimated “on request” at £30m and which made £42.2m....
...No, said Christie’s contemporary art honcho Brett Gorvy: “It’s the beginning of something new …collectors were buying sensibly.”...
...Artists Chuck Close and Laddie John Dill, and the estates of Robert Graham and Sam Francis, had brought a class-action suit against Sotheby’s and Christie’s, claiming the auction houses had got out of paying...
...One of his biggest regrets is not going for a Francis Bacon painting – his “dream” possession – when they were still relatively affordable....
...He reels off a list: Charles Morgan, Francis Brett Young, Dennis Wheatley. Does he have any second thoughts about torching them along with 3,000 other titles?...
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