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...Listening to NPR kind of feels like you’re having a dinner party and two friends are talking in the background; you’re getting the gist of what they’re saying, and you can drift in and out without chiming...
...After attending a lecture given by Warren Buffett, Li started investing his student loan in the stock market, making significant returns....
...KKR goes zen on the yen When Henry Kravis, George Roberts and Jerome Kohlberg founded KKR in 1976, the typical large US corporation was bloated, undervalued and low hanging fruit for leveraged buyout artists...
...Gates’s father was a well-known lawyer and his mother came from a prominent banking family, while Buffett Sr was a member of the US House of Representatives....
...But now that we are at a pivot point between the two, it presents a real conundrum for President Joe Biden and for Democratic members of Congress running for re-election in the autumn....
...Powell received a public lashing this week from Elizabeth Warren, the Democratic senator from Massachusetts, a day after two regional Fed bank presidents, Eric Rosengren and Robert Kaplan, resigned following...
...“We could not be more excited about this moment in time,” said Kravis, 77, and Roberts, 78, in a joint statement....
...That or I’d have gone into a K-hole of mute anxiety as the former “number one competitive debater on the continent of Europe” wiped the floor with me in unsparing, affectless prose....
...The K and the R of KKR clearly had their differences over Brexit, with Roberts optimistic that a hard Brexit and a weakened sterling would create opportunities for PE....
...White & Case has recruited Grace Fan-Delatour as a partner in Beijing. Fan-Delatour joins the law firm from K&L Gates, where she was also a partner....
...Adam Schiff, the California Democrat who heads the House intelligence committee and has been a fierce critic of Mr Trump, on Sunday said Mrs Warren “makes a good point” and that the evidence from the report...
...Bernadette Wyre, 67, says her husband Jerry is counting the days until he can “re-retire”....
...TPL is controlled by three trustees that occupy a rare perch in corporate America — once appointed, they’re there for life....
...A new study found that making jokes at work can help men, but hurt women, Pilita Clark writes. (FT) A beginner’s guide to modern monetary theory Warren Buffett hates it....
...you call me back — when you’re not Asian.”...
...Kohlberg, who has died aged 90, was from its 1976 inception the “first K” in front of Henry Kravis and George Roberts at what would become the fearsome force known as KKR....
...“Literary creation is a mysterious, alchemical process,” wrote Jerry Brotton in the FT, “but Shapiro enables us to see how Shakespeare identifies a character, story or even a word from his historical moment...
...a record $6bn in capital expenditure next year....
...“Every time we pick up a car, we’re making a bet on the company,” Mr Moorman says....
...The Notting Hill Mystery: The First Detective Novel, by Charles Warren Adams, British Library, RRP£8.99 Here’s a reprinted gem; the world’s first detective novel, published in instalments in 1862-1863...
...“We are making a big step toward a real market with these reforms,” says Jerry Lou, China strategist at Morgan Stanley....
...London will open at two in the morning. And as of this very moment, you’re running the place.” Jerry Corrigan, president of the New York branch of the Federal Reserve, was hard to reach....
...Mr Jefferson, who won re-election to his Louisiana district last November in spite of having been found with $90,000 in alleged bribes stuffed in his home freezer, faces a prison sentence of up to 200 years...
...It forces you to reflect on where you’re heading and what you’re trying to do....
...In the 1940s, J. Robert Oppenheimer built his super bomb just up the road in Los Alamos....
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