Hints and tips:
...In October, he spoke at the “Davos in the desert” conference in Riyadh and had lunch with Princess Reema bint Bandar al-Saud, the Saudi ambassador to the US....
...I mean, even if it’s deep within your ranch and nobody’s travelling there, it’s still managed by the federal government and the Bureau of Land Management, so you can’t, like, build whatever you want there...
...The Laramie Plains Ranch, for example, recently on the market for $18.6mn, “consists of 25,764 deeded acres, 5,338 State of Wyoming lease acres, 8,251 BLM [Bureau of Land Management] lease acres and 14,856...
...It’s worth remembering that capitalism’s titans including Jamie Dimon, Stephen Schwarzman and David Solomon were back at Saudi Arabia’s “Davos in the Desert” conference last month....
...The proposal is due to be discussed at a board meeting of Oyu Tolgoi LLC....
...Here’s his take on the desert festival in Nevada. “Just back from Burning Man. Reminds me of Woodstock with better art (installations) and less good music....
...But get any distance out into the desert here (as any desert anywhere), and you are immediately, intensely aware of the preciousness of water, the sacredness of the rivers and streams that come tumbling...
...Rio has funded Oyu Tolgoi LLC, the joint venture company developing the project, through shareholder loans....
...In 2012, he donated close to 167,000 acres of land on his Colorado ranch to the US Fish and Wildlife Service for conservation purposes, marking the largest ever easement in the US....
...Back then, barely 21, I worked for six months on a cattle ranch in another high desert near Casper, Wyoming....
...Instead, he stayed at his ranch in Carson City, Nevada, a town once described by former resident Mark Twain as “a desert, walled in by barren, snow-clad mountains” without a tree in sight....
...TRQ in turns owns 66 per cent of Oyu Tolgoi LLC, with the rest controlled by the government of Mongolia....
...Joining him will be investors from Elliott Management and Oaktree Capital as well other key characters from the Caesars bankruptcy case. Details and sign-up here....
...take on more debt to fund the $6.8bn underground expansion of the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert....
...Forwarded from Sifted — the European start-up week French entrepreneur Barbara Belvisi is building sustainable habitats, starting in the Mojave Desert in California....
...His employees, public shareholders of Apollo Global Management and limited partners that inject billions into Apollo private equity funds....
...Corsair Capital, the US private equity group, acquired NoteMachine in 2012 via a management buyout. It abandoned a sales process in 2015 after deciding the offers were too low....
...Without the flying river, I was told, São Paulo would be uninhabitable desert....
...He had defaulted on the mortgage on his Neverland ranch in California, a country-style house with its own zoo, and no bank would help....
...It did not fall substantially until Operation Desert Storm was under way, and Phibro and Mr Hall made out like bandits....
...The Hammond family’s cause was cited by protesters who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near their ranch at the beginning of 2016....
...Meantime the authorities in London, with an eye on oil-rich desert sands and a share of the proposed Saudi Aramco new issue, are sorely tempted to become more permissive on this and other scores....
...The billionaire space players As a child, Jeff Bezos spent his summers on a Texan ranch dreaming of space flight....
...Law-enforcement officers are few and far between — as are roads — in this huge swathe of desert....
...“There’s no doubt the events at the Bundy ranch emboldened some people who were on the edge,” he says. “There are those who co-operate....
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