Hints and tips:
...The annual boondoggle in the Crescent City is the perennial opportunity to take the pulse of M&A activity....
...I’m baffled by why we fail to learn anything from history.”...
...“There is no way the US rig count grows after the recent wave of consolidation,” Conrad Gibbins, co-head of the upstream Americas business at Jefferies, told me....
...“What’s happening now — it’s like the movie Network, where the main character says ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore’,” says Gene Ludwig, a former Comptroller of the Currency and...
...I always think I’m a little off time. Some people say sometimes I’m too early, but I’m not sure it is. Because I have this retro thing too. The time clash, for me, is super-important.”...
...I feel encores are best when they’re kind of a reflection of how I’m feeling in the moment. Maybe it’s just I hear something, and it moves me so deeply that I’m like, we’ve got to do this....
...“I’m looking at it from the perspective of someone who spent seven years as the senior regulator for the US securities market,” she says. “And what makes capital markets successful?...
...“I suppose I’m scared that my pieces will be too big,” she sighs. “I’m scared that they will be ugly things. I’m very good at ugly!...
...And Nasba’s Conrad said an economic downturn might help swing people back to the profession....
...Congress tends to act when there is momentum around an issue and I’m hopeful that public pressure could bring some Republicans to the table on this.”...
...Mexico City is not Seoul, it’s not LA, it’s not where everyone is going; but it’s where I’m going.”...
...“I’m not a pessimist, but we have to collectively avoid this becoming a dystopian thing,” says Moynihan....
...Duck into the St James’s Park underground station booking hall, straight out the other side, cut smartly left and into the entrance of a nondescript hotel called the Conrad Hilton....
...So, having taken on provisions, we set off in this direction, stopping for our first night at the Conrad campground, next to an abandoned silver mine....
...“I’m a product of a kind of late 20th-century movement,” he tells me over Zoom from his temporary base in Miami, “a thoroughly mongrelised person.”...
...If the share price weakness were to persist it could ultimately open “the door for M&A discussion”, Mayer added....
...There’s wine and Graber olives, which are grown in California, and I have to put about eight tins in my suitcase any time I go home to Canada because my family is obsessed with them....
...There has been a lot of upheaval and in a way I’m not surprised something like this happened with all of that going on.”...
...“I’ve just been taking care of each day and before you know it, three weeks later, I’m in the final and I can’t actually believe it.”...
...Conrad Hilton was over 50 and had been operating hotels for more than 20 years before he bought his first property outside Texas in 1939....
...I’m using....
...“I’m a lark and Mother is an owl,” says Alex. “So by the time I’m ready for my first glass of wine, she gets her second wind.”...
...What Nabokov called a “private tragedy”, Yiyun Li — who, like Joseph Conrad, has never written in her native tongue — calls a “private salvation”....
...The screenplay is written by J.M....
...And dad collected a whole book of cartoons by Conrad, a cartoonist for the LA Times, just on Nixon....
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