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...They followed the Pinault family of Ch Latour et al, who, in 2013, bought what is now called The Eisele Vineyard from the Araujos, and were so confident of their savoir-faire that they didn’t even impose...
...“I didn’t know Larry Fink had been made God,” said Sam Zell, the billionaire real estate investor, dubbing the letter “extraordinarily hypocritical”....
...pay and bonus awards (FT) Bed Bath & Beyond strikes real-estate deal (WSJ) NMC Health seeks to confirm cash levels after Muddy Waters attack (FT) News Corp to sell UK video ad company Unruly (FT) China...
...The money came from Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Seagram Company, who made a fortune out of alcohol just as America turned to prohibition....
...There’s a longstanding perception that America needs a minimum of four wireless companies for healthy competition....
...Addison Lee, the mini cab company that was bought by Carlyle just months before Uber et al made it on to the scene....
...Cable in £3bn all-cash deal (FT) Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi eyes 2018 listing (The Information) Bob Diamond’s Atlas Merchant in US insurance deal (FT) Poland’s Griffin Real Estate strikes €1bn deal...
...company bosses is an unlikely beach read....
...The story of “Los Carlos” is a tale of greed. They controlled a financial empire with branches in insurance, healthcare, real estate, investment banking and pension funds....
...(WSJ) The SEC “is seeking up to $750 million in sanctions from Texas entrepreneur Sam Wyly and the estate of his deceased brother, Charles Wyly....
...Mr Buffett invests via his ownership of insurance company Berkshire Hathaway. Top shareholdings: Coca-Cola; ConocoPhillips; DirecTV; GlaxoSmithKline; General Electric; IBM....
...… Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture, by Justin McGuirk, Verso, RRP£17.99 The most interesting architecture in the world is currently coming out of Latin America but...
...The King’s Pictures: The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers, by Francis Haskell, Yale, RRP£30/$60 A connoisseur’s volume: the story of the European dispersal of Charles...
...A general posture for government of standing up for capitalism rather than particular well-connected capitalists would also serve to mitigate inequality....
...The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change, by Charles Duhigg, William Heinemann, RRP£12.99, 400 pages Duhigg has digested the copious research on the habits of people, societies and companies...
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
...Today, with Johnson at the helm, the company is a global operation in its core industries of coal, steel, shipping, retailing, information technology and real estate....
...President [Barack] Obama and Gordon Brown [UK prime minister] have a real interest in seeking to check the witch hunt and balance the debate,” says Richard Lambert, director-general of the CBI, the British...
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...No wonder then, that banks like Citigroup, Goldman Sachs et al are peddling the instruments, according to Bloomberg....
...interests by moving its property assets into a Reit (real estate investment trust)....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
...Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics and former MPC member Permanent. Severe. You have asked the wrong question....
...Given the rise in neo-socialism in Latin America (Nicaragua, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia et al), has your view of the economic future for the region changed?...
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
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