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...And there was this New Yorker author in the ‘60s and ‘70s called John Brooks, and he wrote several books about the stock market. One is called Once in Golconda, and one was called The Go-Go Years....
...The other includes Brooks Brothers button-collar oxford cloth shirts; J Press tweed jackets; Bass Weejuns and penny loafers generally; Docksides and Sperry boat shoes; odd lightweight cloths such as madras...
...Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Powell talks tighter financial conditions An economy in rude health buys a central bank time to wait....
...You can purchase a nice one from the post-bankruptcy remains of Brooks Brothers. Shirt. Short sleeves only. Goes great over jeans....
...Alternatively, if you can bear being a little preppy, the little woven elastic ones from Brooks Brothers or J. Press are attractive, cheap and come in many colours....
...Or as the FT’s Robert Armstrong calls it, a hedge fund....
...Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Long bonds in a tightening cycle The short end of the yield curve looks attractive, as Unhedged has mentioned several times recently....
...Cotswolds, the Bamfords sit at the centre of a fascinating power nexus that includes former Conservative leaders, lower-ranking nobles and media mavens, including Murdoch’s long-term henchwoman Rebekah Brooks...
...Robert Armstrong’s piece “America’s populists have an image problem” (Life & Arts, April 23) was perceptive....
...Robert Armstrong is the FT’s US financial editor....
...The charter-lite concept, which amounts to a form of banking licence, was proposed during the Obama administration, and recently departed OCC commissioner Brian Brooks revived the idea in the final months...
...Richard Brooks, senior campaign specialist at 350.org, a climate lobby group, said the news “is a sign of the changing winds of financial institutions taking climate action seriously” and that “while JPMorgan...
...Mr Brooks has also championed an easier path for a variety of fintechs to become licensed. But the so-called fintech charter has met strong resistance from the banking industry....
...He considers the case of Brooks Brothers. Like Barneys, Brooks was once an elite brand, with just 11 stores back in 1971. The brand had magical cachet back then....
...Comptroller of the Currency — one of the US’s financial regulators — under President Obama, and has also been taken up with enthusiasm by the OCC under President Trump’s comptrollers, Joseph Otting and Brian Brooks...
...Mr Brooks added that he saw no case for suspending bank merger activity because of the pandemic....
...Written by US financial editor Robert Armstrong, it will land in inboxes each weekday morning. Sign up to Unhedged....
...It all started in 1978, when Joan Gallagher, founder of Warden Brooks, created the first banker bag....
...(FT) Buffett’s tin hat It is a bit alarming to find Warren Buffett making the same trades as everyone else, Robert Armstrong writes....
...Twiggy really wasn’t Coming Out — nor was Jean “The Shrimp” Shrimpton, or Grace Coddington, Celia Hammond or Sue Murray, especially not when shot by photographers such as John Cowan, Tony Armstrong-Jones...
...“Wynton Marsalis’s band, they have a partnership with Brooks Brothers. But overall, these are sharp guys. They’re not sloppy. They like getting dressed up. And they like to wear hats.”...
...(David Brooks, NYT) Trump’s big suit (Robert Armstrong, FT) Why Democrats will unite in November (Dan Carney, USA Today) Trump is fuelled by demographic, not economic panic (Joy-Ann Reid, Daily Beast)...
...In this weekend’s FT, Lex editor Robert Armstrong puts forward an excellent, belligerent case for the suit. His argument is specifically about the importance of tailoring in the workplace....
...After skirting the edge of Westcote Brook, our route takes a sharp turn north and along a track, before a gentle climb to the brow of Pebbly Hill....
...In the 1960s, Lord Armstrong was told by his boss, Sir Norman Brook: “You don’t write down what they said but what they would have said if they had thought what they ought to say.”...
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