Hints and tips:
...The high street is minuscule, but there has been a flourishing of B&Bs and guest houses to cater to the year-long calendar of events. New people keep moving to the area, too....
...He doesn’t like the alternative, B&Q. Too many friends have been nicked there. “The security guards are going on like the fucking Viet Cong,” he says....
...Francisco; Jane Robinson, London Polymath 1,053: Martyn Haley, Conwy, Wales Crossword 16,350: PJ Morsan, Winchester, England; Andrew Palfreman, Hull, England; Richard Heaton, London Polymath 1,052: AJ Cullens...
...“We have a perfect storm” for the banks, said Mark Grant, chief global strategist at investment bank B Riley FBR....
...The difference between a retreat and a countryside B&B is slim: both are peaceful and remote, though a retreat will have a clear writing space. The main difference is the purpose....
...For this reason says Cullen Roche of Orcam Financial Group, ethical funds should “underperform in theory and in reality.” Let’s put this another way. What’s the point of ethical investing?...
...This FT is no relation to Forrest Tucker the 1950s B-movie star, whom we old men without guns remember from The Abominable Snowman (1957) and such....
...We booked into Chilvers’ favourite B&B, Lince Casa Rural, with antique, sun-bleached chairs, a beautiful library and bedroom windows flung open to the sound of hooves and stables below....
...- The B Team (where “B” is for Branson). - A Chinese challenge to Christie’s and Sotheby’s. - Tuition fees? That’s it, we’re off to Germany....
...– Cullen Roche bears the standard for the Monetary Realists, a splinter faction of the Modern Monetary Theorists....
...The charismatic Von Klopper likens his way of winemaking to sailing, while a conventional winemaker might simply navigate from A to B without help from the wind....
...Meanwhile, if anyone explains it best, it’s probably Cullen Roche at Pragmatic Capitalism. Yes, he’s an “MMT-type”....
...Butch Cassidy robbed his first bank here in 1889, and since Telluride caught the eye of Oprah Winfrey in the early 1990s, he’s not the only one to make a killing here....
...To be precise, the break was called a Hawkins B, Type 2 fracture. This was very common in the first world war among pilots who crash-landed....
...Jules et Jim (1961) is a freewheeling feelgood romance, a European answer to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (before the question)....
...The sluggers ground to a halt and there was no plan B....
...Does raising interest rates reduce demand (a) always (b) mostly (c) sometimes or (d) never? With rare exceptions Pavlovian pundits, media, markets and politicians appear to believe ‘always’....
...The biggest difference between Earl [Woods, late father of Tiger] and B.J. . . . is that Earl didn’t worry about money....
...But Pink in her spiky blonde quiff and multiple tattoos, butch yet girlishly pretty, not only looks the part, she also sounds it....
...(The presentation pauses as he swoops to gobble up a small shoal of passing Cullens.)...
...‘Real’ writing is butch and cinematic, so emphatic and declarative that it has no need of these rest stops or hinges between phrases.”...
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