Hints and tips:
...There are three pressure points I’m watching closely. The first and most important is the fact that this just isn’t a normal business cycle....
...At about €15,000 per sq m, it is half of the price of St Moritz and Verbier....
...Well, I’m having none of it. Markets have calmed, but further drops are a chance to average down in my view. Warren Buffett agrees....
...(The work’s title alludes to the Cheshire Cat’s “I’m not crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”)...
...The average sale price in “Crans” is SFr10,200 per sq m, according to UBS....
...Still reeling, he told an FT reporter: “I’m finished.” Yet Crastes was not totally done....
...Drummer Ryan Sawyer rattled round his kit and Joy Guidry’s bassoon was a mournful presence....
...I’m talking about artificial intelligence....
...That these are just the croakings of a Cassandra....
...But I said to him, ‘I’m very happy you looking at this as long as we can agree that there is no such thing as a definitive performance of a Shakespeare play....
...But I’m not quite ready to make that argument. We’ll keep watching housing closely. One good read In America today, Dylan Thomas’ great poem about a British child seems timely....
...Also, a reminder: as I mentioned in the last Swamp Notes, I’m taking six weeks of book research leave from the FT....
...I very much like Suffolk-based Cassandra Cunningham’s eye (she trades as Almasy Antiques)....
...Grant, SydneyWith salons in Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne and – occasionally – Paris, the facialist Melanie Grant is almost as jet-set as her clients (Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Aniston, Joan Smalls and Cassandra...
...But for Cassandra Ellis, founder of Atelier Ellis, colour has undeniable power....
...Cassandra Gracey, one of my good friends, is the closest person to someone I would call a mentor. We used to work together; she now works for a record label....
...I don’t have any ringing conclusions to this jeremiad except to say I hope that I’m being a Cassandra. The only thing I will confidently predict is that Trump will lose the popular vote in November....
...Cassandra Crowe has moved to T Rowe Price, the $1.1tn US asset manager, as head of consultants for Australia and New Zealand....
...Well, those Cassandras will be feeling pretty pleased with their predictive powers today because . . ....
...She is a Cassandra figure who becomes the play’s conscience, pointing out the dangers of focusing on top-line ideologies at the expense of building a functioning, caring society....
...Gill Hornby (Miss Austen , Century RRP£12.99, January/Flat Iron RRP$26.99, April) and Helen Moffett (Charlotte , Manilla Press RRP£12.99, May) field Austen-themed novels, the first concerning Cassandra Austen...
...I’m being held prisoner in a fortune cookie factory!’”...
...“I’m in a position to. I’ve chosen not to have children....
...And at the risk of being a Cassandra, I wonder if they aren’t just as oblivious to what is happening today with the US and China....
...But the case of Akorn shows that corporate Cassandras like Mr Bauersmith should be taken seriously by companies swept up in deal fever....
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