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...Sonal Desai, chief investment officer for Franklin Templeton Fixed Income, said: “We’re back in a situation where good news will be bad and bad news will be good....
...“A date that will live in infamy” was how Franklin Delano Roosevelt described December 7 1941 — the day that Japan attacked America at Pearl Harbor, killing 2,403 US personnel, including 68 civilians....
...Franklin Templeton’s Hasenstab made his name through massive (and we mean massive) bets on struggling counties like Ireland, Hungary, Ukraine, Argentina and Ghana, utterly eschewing the confines of indices...
...Franklin, which is part of California-based Franklin Templeton, the $712bn-in-assets group, is one of many investors still nursing wounds from a downturn in oil prices at the end of 2018 which has crippled...
...This comes after Franklin Templeton shut several funds, a move that trapped more than $3bn of investor money....
...Savage critics like Seymour Hersh and Christopher Hitchens have had their say. So have more balanced biographers, such as Walter Isaacson....
...Men such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were agitators against the deadweight of tradition. They did not believe in their own perfection....
...She is a sterner judge, perhaps, of Buchan’s shelf life, conceding that his early novel Prester John, in which indigenous Africans are referred to by his characters as “savages” is “well-nigh unreadable...
...A free pass over a savage killing serves the kingdom’s current leadership but runs counter to long-term US interests. roula.khalaf@ft.com...
...It unfolds in Western Australia, starting in a dismal rural settlement where the brutalised Jaxie lives with his savage, drunken, one-eyed butcher father....
...Benjamin Franklin, the ultimate self-made American, referred to Pennsylvania’s 18th-century backwoodsman as “the refuse of America”....
...blends narrative verve with analytical insight to bring to life a conference that threw together Josef Stalin, the suspicious Soviet dictator, with Harry Truman, catapulted into the US presidency after Franklin...
...fate of her husband”, Captain Sir John Franklin, who had been frozen to death attempting to discover the Northwest Passage in 1847....
...Yet there can be no scene in Flanagan’s six novels to match the horrific intensity of the centrepiece of The Narrow Road: the savage, unbearably prolonged beating of Darky Gardiner, one of its most sympathetically...
...Franklin Templeton last year acquired K2 Advisors, a hedge fund group....
...“Ox” proves horribly the right word when we learn, in an extended flashback, what happened to his masculinity during a savage attack by an older boy....
...Michael Hasenstab, who oversees $170bn in global fixed income investments for Franklin Templeton, told the Financial Times recently there were “a lot easier and clearer investments out there versus the UK...
...As I watch the bird savage the fish, I think about other similarities between this scene and reality TV – the difference being that the first is natural and the second contrived....
...It is not surprising that he owns the most memorable quote about the job he held for eight years, from 1933-41, under Franklin Delano Roosevelt....
...Add to this Benjamin Franklin’s boosterism (targeted at property speculators) for American acreage, George Washington’s career as a land surveyor and Jefferson’s compulsive scientific experimentation with...
...They ended with a huge rock ’n’ roll breakdown, Spencer manipulating a theremin, one of the earliest electronic instruments, as Simins thrashed his drum kit and Bauer played savage riffs....
...grunts a caveman on the cover of The Savage Stone Age, holding up the dripping organ in question, while his family, sitting in the background, cooks the rest of the mammoth....
...honorary doctorate of letters by Harvard. 2005 The Plot Against America (2004), which imagines Charles Lindbergh, the aviator hero and political isolationist, elected president in the 1940 election ahead of Franklin...
...When Franklin Roosevelt became president in 1933, he reminds me, it was the old who were the poorest Americans....
...Worse, Sir John Franklin’s expedition of 1845 vanished forever. “Not here! The white north has thy bones,” says Tennyson’s poem on Franklin’s memorial in Westminster Abbey....
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