Hints and tips:
...Burford wins the payout of a lifetime . . . on paper It was the largest award in the 234-year history of Manhattan’s district court....
...The company, Plan D LLC, owned a Gulfstream jet. In court papers reviewed by the FT, the US Virgin Islands government cites flight logs showing that the plane transported underage girls....
...For example, this newer document lists Geos LLC, a Russian private company headquartered in Novorossiysk, as the seller....
...Chris Bush’s Rock/Paper/Scissors tells the story of a scissors manufacturer in Sheffield and three generations who fight over the factory site....
...Anyway, there’s much to enjoy in the paper for policy wonks, technologists or historians, so do have a read if you want a break from wondering whether we’ll have a V-shaped recovery or not....
...We’d recommend a full read of his 2011 paper for a fuller sense of just how different those times were and how truly remarkable the German settlement was....
...One banker advising the UK government — which has earmarked £330bn for corporate loan guarantees and a commercial paper financing facility — says the schemes are untested....
...Some tried to sweeten the deal: UK brewer and pub operator Fuller, Smith & Turner offered a free drink to all customers who responded, regardless of whether they opted in or out....
...On paper, the new class of stock, whose value is tied to a large part of Dell’s investment in data centre technology company VMware, will be worth even more than the shares sold at the time of Facebook’s...
...In theory, the principles proposed by the Smith Commission and adopted by the subsequent command paper paving the way for legislation this year are simple: A....
...Even centuries-old, government-issued paper money can be subjected to a Gesell tax....
...The pitch came with a 58-page paper that included visualisations and detailed technical explanations of how it would work, prompting wide public discussion of the idea....
...He is far gentler in the flesh, almost feline, padding around his LA house in his customary V-neck T-shirt and high-waisted trousers so softly that he hardly makes a noise....
...The paper from Buchheit, Gulati and Tirado was written with the Cyprus crisis in mind....
...Commandment V: You shall pass early pension and health care reforms as current trends are unsustainable. Commandment VI: You shall be fair....
...And the pieces of paper actually have nothing to do with the fundamentals of what’s going on with the underlying collateral....
...‘Modernism: Designing a New World, 1914-1939’ is at the V&A, London, from April 6 to July 23. Tel 20 7942 2211...
...But you will find fuller arguments in the Afterword to my new edition of the Globalization book....
...Greenberg represented C.V. Starr & Co. Role reversal After years of serving as a top consultant to the world’s largest media groups, Michael Wolf is joining one....
...Finally, at Fullers pubs across London, drinkers can show their allegiance by using the ’Swig-O-Meter’ which counts votes - ie pints pulled from three different coloured pumps....
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