Hints and tips:
...Another option would be to buy a retailer. Costco has a market cap of about $96bn, which is not out of reach for a guy like Buffett (so long as he has a co-investor or two . . .)....
...Craigslist, Lyft et al . . . the shareconomy? The freeconomy? It’s going to happen....
...But the Russians believe that toppling Assad is not the best idea when that might lead to al-Qaeda and other jihadist forces taking over much of Syria and getting control of some of the chemical weapons....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...Although the most recent buy-out boom has names attached to it – Stephen Schwarzman, David Rubenstein and the protagonist of the RJR drama, Henry Kravis – they are more closely associated with the pools...
...Abrahamson et al find evidence that “strategic pricing” (implicit collusion) is as strong as ever in the US IPO market....
...The frantic effort by Goldman et al to quell public outrage over their industry’s compensation practices has successfully brought the top three: Blankfein, Citi’s Vikram Pandit and JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon...
...At its best, the slow-burning yet quick-witted story of 29-year-old Gaynor Jacks (played by the show’s co-writer Emma Fryer) – who returns to her parents’ house in Coventry after 12 years of unexplained...
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...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Over the course of a three-hour interview, he explains, among many other things, that Henry I did not die from eating a surfeit of lampreys but that Henry V employed a man to source lampreys for the campaigning...
...Is the buy-out boom officially dead?...
...Get the film of Henry V right, and you scoop the 1996 Oscars. Establish the “authoritative” text, and all those education dollars are yours....
...Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley have been appointed joint global co-ordinators and joint global book runners for the float....
...George V - piece of rubbish. When I bought it, you order spaghetti, they say, ‘We have no spaghetti, give you rice.’ Look what: you buy it, you shut it down, you fix it up....
...Such agreements, Mr Peek says, build on the work of Henry Ittelson, CIT's founder who started the business by lending money to clients to buy horse-drawn carriages....
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