Hints and tips:
...Then it made her poor again (New York Times) Christopher Grimes, Los Angeles bureau chief I loved this recent NY Mag piece on Erewhon, America’s most fashionable grocery store....
...Jens Larsen as the omnipresent old servant....
...By contrast, once-battered industrial groups set to benefit from any upturn in capital investment under Mr Modi rose strongly, with shares in Larsen & Toubro, India’s largest infrastructure company by sales...
...“I think further LTRO is needed and soon,” says Jens Larsen, chief European economist at RBC Capital Markets....
...“We believe Dish+Sprint could have a better chance at being a formidable wireless competitor,” wrote Christopher Larsen, analyst at PiperJaffray....
...Even so, Christopher Larsen, an analyst at Piper Jaffray & Co, said SoftBank would need to sweeten its bid by $2bn to match Dish’s offer....
...Christopher Pissarides, LSE: It cannot continue for long and I don’t see it continuing to the end of 2013....
...Christopher Pissarides, LSE: They are too high but not because of the pre-recession bubble. So do not expect them to come down more. They are too high because of land policy and building regulations....
...Christopher Pissarides, LSE: They should be very worried. The idea that Britain can leave but keep all the goodies without the EU rules and regulations is naïve....
...Christopher Pissarides, LSE: It will not see one. It will plod along near zero, maybe a bit on the plus side, maybe a bit on the minus side....
...Christopher Pissarides, LSE: Yes, I think it should....
...Christopher Pissarides, LSE: He can certainly keep plan A if he wants to....
...(No comment on the bank capitalisation issue) Christopher Pissarides, LSE: I don’t think a credit crunch is the key problem. More money given to the banks will not increase lending....
...Jens Larsen, RBC Capital Markets The fiscal consolidation will – largely – be on track, though it is certainly possible that the expenditure reduction will disappoint....
...Jens Larsen, RBC Capital Markets House prices are likely to move sideways for some time....
...Citigroup has lost one of its most senior investment bankers in Europe after Christopher Williams quit to join Credit Suisse....
...Probability 35 per cent Jens Larsen, RBC Capital Markets The response to the fiscal consolidation shows that the UK government has an ability to influence its own destiny significantly – at the outset...
...Jens Larsen, RBC Capital Markets The Chancellor’s focus should really be on fiscal policy, and the implementation of the budget....
...Christopher Allsopp, New College, Oxford The UK is quite resilient, and there are some “upside risks”....
...One mistake may have been to judge there is more spare capacity in the economy than actually exists Jens Larsen, RBC Capital Markets The MPC has lost neither control of nor focus on inflation....
...Jens Larsen, RBC Capital Markets The three main risks facing the UK 1. A weak policy response to the crisis in the euro area leading widespread financial instability 2....
...Here’s the breaking FT story from Henny Sender, Francesco Guerrera and Peter Thal Larsen....
...Christopher Mason and Bernard Simon wrote an illuminating feature on why Canada’s prudent banks are the envy of the world, spiced by a good profile of the talented Canadian central bank governor Mark Carney...
...Christopher Flowers, a former Goldman Sachs partner who is close to BofA, manages about $3.2bn of CIC’s money in a fund dedicated to taking stakes in financial institutions....
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