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...Michael Winckless Bangkok, Thailand...
...Who goes there: lawyers who are soaks, soaks who were actors, journos, ambos and, as he never stops reminding us, Stephen Fry. What to drink/eat: burgundy, rich gravy dishes and nursery puddings....
...Few authors should be better positioned to take on crypto than Michael Lewis....
...Of course, bitcoin bros will shout that the bitcoin acquired by El Salvador will prove a bargain when the cryptocurrency eclipses gold and even the US dollar....
...Opinion: It is time for the US to upgrade its fight against inflation, argues Mohamed El-Erian. Five more stories in the news 1....
...Its chief executive Michael Moro is leaving after six years in the role and a fifth of its 260-strong workforce is going....
...Job moves Pamela Abdy and Michael De Luca, the outgoing heads of film studio MGM, have reached a deal to run the newly merged Warner Bros Discovery, per The Hollywood Reporter....
...by the anything-but-maudlin ’80s boy band Bros. While not exactly launching her into dizzying celebrity status, Klein’s new appointment is an important one in Britain’s cultural ecology....
...You might have noticed that when we use the term “bitcoin bro” — or “crypto bro” — we tend to take some heat in the comments section....
...In advanced economies, cryptocurrencies are viewed by many in the financial world with suspicion — the domain of zealous “crypto bros” and a speculative and highly volatile fad that can only end badly....
...A charm offensive secured the rights to Fifty Shades of Grey from writer EL James; Fast & Furious became ever more Herculean....
...Get the full story from the FT’s Michael Pooler and DD’s Rob Smith here....
...Mr Goodman cut his teeth at junk bond king Michael Milken’s Drexel Burnham Lambert in the 1980s....
...The FOMC statement represents a central bank unwilling to take away the training wheels for risk assets, writes our senior investment commentator Michael Mackenzie....
...DD’s Arash Massoudi and FT colleagues Stephen Morris and Laurence Fletcher burnt the midnight oil to digest the announcement. You can read their report here....
...As part of this shift, Mr Scott, a former investment banker who was chief financial officer of energy group El Paso Corporation before joining GSO in 2005, has become the public face of the firm....
...Comparisons between this book and Stephen King’s The Stand are, unfortunately, unavoidable....
...Mohamed El-Erian, the former chief executive of bond group Pimco, is joining Barclays as a non-executive director at the start of next year. More here....
.../ From Michael Hutchings, Sherborne, Dorset, UK...
...The list includes Pret A Manger, Panera Bread, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Krispy Kreme, Einstein Bros, Caribou Coffee, Keurig Green Mountain, Dr Pepper Snapple and Espresso House....
...That is the focus of this analysis by Olaf and the FT’s Stephen Morris. Here’s a quick glance: There are the unions....
...Her agent secured her a deal at a more welcoming studio, Warner Bros, which paid handsomely and gave her approval of scripts and directors....
...Comment from El Condor Pasa on Philip Stephens’s recent column, Stop the world....
...Allianz’s Mohamed El-Erian forecast that a “beautiful rate normalisation” would be the overarching aim of the US central bank....
...SNP MP Stephen Gethins said: “We can now be absolutely clear: there is no intention of a Spanish veto over Scotland’s EU membership.”...
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