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...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...An unreformed smoker of actual cigarettes, Dezer is also an unapologetic friend of the Trumps....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...“I owned a small farm in Lebanon, now I own a small farm in California!” he smiles broadly. His nephew shows me how to tap a watermelon like a stud wall to check its quality....
...But then Bogle made a fateful mistake, merging Wellington with an aggressive young mutual fund company in Boston....
...Studies subsequently found that more than 90 per cent of inmates relapsed after leaving the farm....
...They included Aerobotics, which is applying AI to aerial photos of farms to help provide crop insurance, and Emerge, which uses machine learning to help insurers improve efficiency. ——————— Four areas...
...Some farmers, like Home Farm’s Brian and Jennifer Aldridge, have set up family investment companies to control when assets are received, and by whom....
...insurance firms under supervision by the Fed due to their banking activities – the likes of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance and Nationwide Mutual Insurance – would be subject to lighter capital requirements...
...During one of his tantrums, Wolfensohn’s staff had arranged for a distinguished friend to call and calm him down. The friend was Alan Greenspan....
...Six months later the bank failed and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, the regulator, sold WaMu to JPMorgan....
...In the years that followed, automobile factories converted to making planes and tanks. Corset factories made grenade belts. A toy company made compasses....
...How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In By Jim Collins Random House Business Books, £15.99 The author who told us how companies can go “from good to great” now explains how they can sink...
...And as someone who watched my mother argue with insurance companies while she lay in bed dying of cancer, I will make certain those companies stop discriminating against those who are sick and need care...
...That’s one of the times I suffered; that, taking on the gun lobby, trying to pass healthcare and making all the insurance companies… I carried a lot of arrows in my back in the ’94 election....
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