Hints and tips:
...In the words of former SEC enforcement attorney John Reed Stark, the “decision resides on shaky ground, is likely (and ripe) for appeal, will likely result in reversal.” Enter judge Jed Rakoff....
...Hermès golden-brass and Taurillon H leather Équilibre d’Hermès magnifying glass, £1,630 Jimmy Choo leather Diamond Tilda SB 45 shoes, £675....
...Over a lunch of oysters, John Dory and a glass of Albariño at Le Mermoz, it is a surprise to learn that Chatillon, voluble and passionate, never wanted to be an architect....
...Some lenders are responding already: earlier this week, Yorkshire Bank, Clydesdale Bank, Nationwide and Gen H all increased mortgage rates on some deals....
...I dream of one day owning my own vintage Reverso or, even more exquisite, this yellow gold 11mm x 31mm Duoplan. jaeger-lecoultre.com St John Eccles stout, £23 for sixFor some reason, I think drinking stout...
...The Jules Verne of investment research (H/T Adam Tooze) has left Credit Suisse after it was devoured by UBS....
...Those with celebrity provenance also drive up the price; Michael Caine’s 1968 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow Drophead Coupe recently sold for £135,000 at H&H Classics....
...And the best souvenir I’ve brought home is a John Travolta postcard book from New York....
...and White’s h pawn queens. Chess 24581 Bh1! Kf4 2 Kg2! Ke4 3 Kg3 mate. Chess 24572457 1 Bb5! Resigns....
...“The age of self-regulation is definitively at an end,” says Conan D’Arcy, a director at the advisory firm Global Counsel, which has been collating regulators’ views....
...It was once nicknamed the ex-presidents club, because it had counted George H.W Bush and John Major as advisers....
...Characters taken from life include Sir D’Arcy Osborne, an arch and flamboyant British ambassador to the Vatican; John May, his wideboy fixer from London’s East End; Delia Kiernan, a popular singer and wife...
...Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of General Electricby William D Cohan, Allen Lane £35/Portfolio $40 William D Cohan goes deep into the root causes of the rise and recent extraordinary decline of GE, once...
...D’Arcy had secured the rights to find and produce oil across a huge area of Persia in 1901, and after years of unsuccessful exploration had finally discovered large reserves in 1908....
...And I think-- I don't know whether John Kerry, he was competing with you for the number of air miles, or who had more air miles, you or John Kerry. But you had a lot of air miles....
...Bank of America published this half-serious chart last month (h/t Brent Donnelly): The whole sector is wobbling. Kraken, a major exchange, laid off 30 per cent of staff on Wednesday....
...This is compared to Band 2 roles in the NHS which are being advertised with a starting salary of £9.65p/h, Band 3 roles at £10.40p/h and Band 4 roles at £11.53p/h....
...I’d died and gone to Top Gear heaven....
...Captured in the soft light of a north window, with hog-hair brushes and in the manner of John Singer Sargent, the life-sized portrait is at once theatrical and calm....
...As John McEnroe wrote about Björn Borg, who first retired at 26, “for the five years he won Wimbledon, he’d stay at the same hotel, practise at the same time and place — all day....
...It was kind of a trend: another courtesan, Émilienne d’Alençon, reportedly had a corset made of diamonds too....
...Hayes, 38, has been likened to a modern-day John Singer Sargent, and trained at the Charles H Cecil Studios in Florence. Hayes immediately wanted to paint her. “I’m obsessed with profile....
...But as my colleague John Burn-Murdoch points out, if higher population density explains the current outbreak, why did Austria have such a low infection rate until October?...
...And he comes armed with the deep contact book you’d expect of an American billionaire. He’s also a finance guy....
...“We’d be delighted to see this done on a bipartisan basis but if it has to be done on a partisan basis, so be it,” said Joshua Bolten, the BRT’s chief executive....
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