Douglas J Skaff

November 27, 2023

Asset Management: The downfall of Leon Black

...Enter stage right, Douglas Wigdor, a lawyer who measured in dollars is the undisputed legal leader of the #MeToo movement....

November 27, 2023

FT Live

Business of Art

Market shifts and future growth

Janan Ganesh

‘Oppenheimer’ is a great film about the wrong man

...He stood up for civilian control of government against the would-be warrior-king General Douglas MacArthur....

July 25, 2023

Moral Money

Why the ESG agenda is sputtering in Japan Premium

...And even at Electric Power Development (also known as J-Power), which rate the highest support rate among these companies for climate proposals submitted by non-governmental organisations and activist investors...

September 1, 2023

Books

What to read in 2024

...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...

December 28, 2023

FT Alphaville

Further reading

...Four weeks ago, Philip Dybvig, Douglas Diamond et al won the Riksbank Prize....

November 9, 2022

FT Live

Investing in America

Foreign companies as drivers of US growth, resilience and competitiveness

Rana Foroohar

America’s chip moonshot should take aim at its education system

...“We’ve found that people are increasingly coming to the skilled trades after they go to college,” says the union’s general president Douglas J McCarron....

February 26, 2023

News in-depthUK property

‘It’s just outrageous’: UK leaseholders face down landlords over insurance costs

...For resident Joe Douglas, representing his fellow leaseholders in the case, the battle is personal....

February 17, 2023

ReviewHistory books

The Georgians — the age that shaped Britain, for good and bad

...Penelope J Corfield is not so dismissive of the personal or philosophical disposition to concentrate on the brighter side of life....

February 2, 2022

The Big Read

The fighter jet that could create a new alliance between the UK and Japan

...“For the first time possibly ever, the kind of threat platform that the two countries are baselining their needs on is a Chinese aircraft — the Chengdu J-20,” he says....

November 27, 2022

J D Wetherspoon PLC

Wetherspoons hit by ‘cautious’ older customers’ reluctance to return

...Douglas Jack, an analyst at Peel Hunt, said the price cuts would help turnover but the benefit was likely to be “offset by lower margins”....

November 10, 2021

Life & Arts

My guide to a deglobalising world

...In his 1996 book Democracy’s Discontent, the political philosopher and Harvard professor Michael J Sandel sharply outlined why decentralisation is crucial for democracy....

October 21, 2022

FT GlobetrotterSpirit of a city: drinks that summon great places

Spirit of a city: five cocktails that encapsulate New York

...Additionally, a touch of Clear Creek Douglas Fir Eau de Vie pays tribute to Central Park, one of NYC’s most-loved landmarks — our escape to nature right in the heart of the city....

April 8, 2021

Arts

Storytelling enters a new dimension

...You may recognise the voice as belonging to the actor David Tennant and, by the end of his reading of J.M....

February 8, 2021

At Home with the FT

The US ambassador in Seoul on Trump, diplomacy and the Kim Jong Un summit

...Among the many American contributions in a marriage of two cultures, Douglas fir, sourced from Oregon and Tennessee, was used for lumber....

February 5, 2021

FT Live

Global Insurance Summit

Strengthening resilience, capital and innovation as systemic risks evolve

J D Wetherspoon PLC

Wetherspoons plan to create 10,000 jobs met with scepticism

...I suspect they’re going to buy in fewer freeholds, do a bit less in terms of buybacks, do a bit more in terms of expansionary capex,” said Peel Hunt’s Douglas Jack....

December 10, 2019

Arts

JD Salinger exhibit leaves troubling unanswered questions

...There was Claire Douglas, whom he met when she was 16 (and he was 32), married when she was 19, persuaded to drop out of Radcliffe and divorced a few years later....

November 29, 2019

FT SeriesFrieze LA 2020

LA’s Felix Art Fair — partying with Hollywood history

...The 27-year-old curator William J....

February 17, 2020

ReviewAlbums

Jamie Saft Quartet: Hidden Corners — spiritual commitment to jazz

...J. Strickland and Dezron Douglas add contemporary beats to modal swing....

August 2, 2019

Investments

Highest yielding shares underperformed FTSE 100 over five years

...Other companies on the list are Wm Morrison, Fresnillo, SSE, Vodafone, Centrica, J Sainsbury, GlaxoSmithKline and Tesco....

July 11, 2019

News in-depthMergers & Acquisitions

Attention turns to what Sainsbury’s boss will do next

...After an unexpectedly harsh verdict from UK regulators on the planned takeover of Asda by J Sainsbury, both supermarkets have said they will continue to make the case....

February 22, 2019

Letter

Riding the new wave of energy on gun control

...Michael J Marfleet Sewall’s Point, FL, US...

March 16, 2018

US trade

The US is hunkering down for a new cold war with China

...The writer is the Douglas Dillon professor of government at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of ‘Destined for War’ Letter in response to this article: In most wars, there are no ‘winners’ / From J...

October 12, 2018

Retail & Consumer industry

Staples names former Coca-Cola executive to top job

...Staples has named the former president of Coca-Cola North America, J Alexander “Sandy” Douglas, as its new chief executive, as the private equity-owned office-supply retailer tries to keep pace with fierce...

January 26, 2018

FT Magazine

Inside New York’s most exclusive private clubs

...Notable members Douglas Fairbanks (early Hollywood star), John Jacob Astor (scion of the famous business dynasty), JP Morgan (financier), Franklin D Roosevelt (US president) Gender policy Men only....

December 14, 2018

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