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...The Soul of the Party in the Age of Extremesby John B Judis and Ruy TeixeiraA rigorous dissection of how and why the once formidable Democratic coalition — forged almost a century ago in the New Deal era...
...A YouTube user called PluggingAI offers songs imitating the voices of the deceased rappers Tupac and Notorious B.I.G....
...Porter is a progressive in the mould of Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts senator who is a vocal advocate for regulation....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway surged to a record high this week, helping increase its valuation this year by more than $100bn — the equivalent of Ford and Halliburton combined....
...I have so many style icons: Gianni Agnelli, Michael Chow, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, Keanu Reeves, Johnny Depp… but Agnelli came to my mind first. He was so elegant but so original....
...Veteran investor Warren Buffett is one naysayer. His Berkshire Hathaway B class shares, at $420, offer a relatively cheaper entry....
...One thing to start: Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway sold 10mn shares of Apple in the final three months of 2023, cutting into a position that the so-called Oracle of Omaha has described as one of the...
...Had Vice-president Humphrey shown some mettle and opposed President Lyndon B Johnson’s bombing of North Vietnam, he might well have won the general election....
...Which of the following was not a pre-bitcoin digital currency: B-Money, HashCash, Internet Money, Bitgold, Beenz?...
...With my colleagues Oliver Ralph and Eric Platt, I put this question to Warren Buffett, Berkshire’s chair, in an interview five years ago....
...The largest holder of Paramount’s B shares is Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, which in 2022 disclosed a stake of about 75mn shares at $28 per share — almost twice the share price today....
...But there were some nights we had to have a plan B.” Undaunted, Mendes has just embarked on rehearsing Butterworth’s newest play: the anticipated world premiere of The Hills of California....
...Her multi-platinum repertoire has spanned golden-age R&B, punk-pop riffing, country-tinged ballads and clubby bangers, all powered by her gloriously sweet-spiky vocals and irrepressible attitude....
...So the sign for “a” was the head of a bull, “alef” in the Levantine language, “b” was a schematic house or “bet”, and so on....
...Loveday Ingram’s staging for b*spoke theatre company echoes Beckett, Stoppard and Magritte as well as the work of the two men themselves The performances are drolly enjoyable....
...Take the recent stand-off between activist Yoshiaki Murakami and Cosmo Energy, the smallest of Japan’s three big energy firms (with a P/B of 0.7)....
...JLL, a broker, estimates that 30 per cent of office buildings account for 90 per cent of total vacancies in the US market, a sort of Pareto principle for cubicle warrens....
...Bill Gates’s father once asked his son and Warren Buffett to write down the word that explained their success....
...The eclectic mix includes pillar candles by Yinka Ilori, glass fruit pipes by Edie Parker, Japanese shibori kits and statement jewellery crafted by Johnny Nelson....
...(b) is very unlikely. The chances of (c) are impossible to estimate, even granting that Putin looks weaker now....
...The first shows the share of stocks with a p/b below 1, in blue, and below 0.7, in orange....
...That’s according to trading data analysed by both JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, which shows the buying very often has been in the lower- priced B shares Berkshire has (the company’s A shares stood around...
...Andrew Warren, chair of the British Energy Efficiency Federation, points out that the UK’s chequered history has even included one-stop shops — back in the 1990s when John Major was prime minister....
...The funds have primarily purchased Berkshire’s class B stock, which carries fractional economic and voting rights compared with A shares....
...Wilding, who has a penchant for quoting Warren Buffett in his missives to shareholders, is a polarising figure....
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