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...It’s bone dry,” said Ruth Grice, a dairy farmer in Leicestershire....
...Throughout, Erisman plays Ishmael to Ma’s Ahab, taking us into meetings at five-star hotels as Ma is courted by the high and mighty of the internet world circa 2005....
...Similarly, the name of Railsea’s cabin-boy protagonist, Sham, echoes that of Moby Dick’s narrator, Ishmael....
...SocGen strategist Dylan Grice on Thursday shared five books he’s read recently that he rather enjoyed....
...Members of that joint panel, which will headed by Schapiro and her CFTC counterpart Gary Gensler, include: • Brooksley Born, former CFTC chairwoman • Jack Brennan, former chief executive officer and chairman...
...It’s aimed at investors who side with strategists such as Thomas Thygesen and Dylan Grice at SG....
...Grice’s trader friend might not have known it, but neuroscience supports his intuition that going against the herd “feels wrong“....
...- SocGen’s Dylan Grice in praise of contrarian investing. - Goldman’s Q3 trading, a breakdown by product. - Manipulating markets in domain names. - A fresh outbreak of Nifty 50s....
...The latest missive from the dynamic SocGen strategy duo, Albert Edwards and Dylan Grice, landed in the FT Alphaville inbox on Tuesday, and it’s a stunner....
...Related links: Goldman Sachs saves kittens (really) – FT Alphaville The Rise of Dog Identity Politics – New York Magazine Jack Hanna Compares Whale Trainers to Astronauts on King – Daily Intel The Extremist...
...Jack Reed (D, R.I.) that would require mediation between borrowers and lenders before any foreclosures and mandate loan mods in some cases. Thanks, Uncle Sam. We think....
...shot into him at close range; at 23, he had a career change and became a rapper; by 30, he had diversified into clothes, vitamin mineral water and condoms and now, at 32, has pulled off something that Jack...
...In testimony before the House Financial Services committee, Jack Kelly, the body’s director of government affairs, sought to differentiate death bonds and subprime MBS....
...Hertz on Monday (emphasis FT Alphaville’s): Hertz today announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County, against Audit Integrity and its Chief Executive Officer, Jack...
...Pelletier, Principal Deputy Chief; Jack Patrick, Senior Litigation Counsel; Matthew Klecka, Trial Attorney; and Allan Medina, Fraud Section Law Clerk, as well as Gregg Costa, Assistant U.S....
...Another of the businessman’s then-lawyers, Jacks Nickens**, argued in the April filing that “the cost of [Sir Allen's] representation in this court and many others through the years it will take to conclude...
...From Ishmael’s friendship with Queequeg in Moby-Dick to buddy movies such as Beverly Hills Cop, American fables abound with mismatched duos forming unlikely partnerships....
...And the greenback is that one-eyed jack....
...The outlook for some of the smaller operators in the industry such as FGIC and Security Capital Assurance is also in doubt, according to Jack Dorer, head of the financial guarantors team at Moody’s....
...“For more than 20 years, bond insurance companies helped pave the way for small municipalities to sell debt to an otherwise inhospitable marketplace,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris...
...Or as Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank said: “Derivatives are much more flexible [than cash bonds] and are used by hedge funds as a good way to get in and out of the market quickly...
...Case in point: Convexity Capital, founded by Jack Meyer, the former Harvard University endowment money manager superstar, set a new record in terms of assets for its $6.3bn fund launch last February....
...Composer Jack Middleton has a mid-life crisis while on a visit to Estonia and starts an affair with a local waitress....
...Additional reporting byRichard Milne and Stacy-Marie Ishmael...
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