Hints and tips:
...I have dumped Cassandra and embraced my inner Abby Cohen, the ex-Goldman strategist who for years could reliably out-bullish anyone. Now my walls are adorned with long-run charts....
...What I would like to see is a grand fiscal bargain that would scrap these perverse incentives, eliminate the vast warren of corporate loopholes in the system, and raise new revenues to invest in people and...
...As Mr Booker posed for countless selfies after the event, Cassandra Erwin, a woman in her 30s, said excitedly: “I really do love him.”...
...Nine per cent favoured Senator Elizabeth Warren, while 7 per cent said they wanted Senator Kamala Harris....
...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....
...As you know, I’ve long been a Cassandra on this topic....
...Living in Paris in the 1780s, her glamorous cousin Eliza Hancock, almost certainly the natural child of Warren Hastings, governor of Bengal, met and married the Comte de Feuillide, a captain in the Queen...
...It dawns on me: if outside was underwhelming, this internal, cacophonic warren, created by removing 60,000 tonnes of earth, is astonishing, its burrows containing both monumental and minuscule art installations...
...But stock market Cassandras, who had long warned about the possibility of a credit collapse, caught his ear....
...There is a rather nice irony about a clash between rabble-rousing activist investors, particularly when two of the more dogged types – Carl Icahn and Warren Lichtenstein – go head to head....
...After acquiring General Re in 1998, Warren Buffett, the veteran investor, learnt the hard way that “derivatives are like hell, easy to enter but almost impossible to exit”....
...Given that Roger Lowenstein has written bestsellers on the more alluring topics of Warren Buffett and the collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, it is a surprise that his agent or his publisher did not...
...Bizarrely, another big difference would appear to be the number of Cassandras....
...Nouriel Roubini, economist at RGE Monitor and self-confessed Cassandra of the current credit cycle, maintains that for every $200bn in bank losses, credit shrinks by $2,000bn....
...In a rabbit warren under the City of London, of all places....
...Familiar gloomy tones from legendary Cassandras such as Warren Buffett and Wilbur Ross only add to the general sense of unease....
...As commodity markets have shot skywards this year, a chorus of Cassandras has cried “bubble”....
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