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...In the lead-up to the 1992 US presidential race between Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, strategist James Carville famously quipped “It’s the economy, stupid.”...
...This article has been amended since first publication to clarify the quotation from Bernard Casey Letter in response to this article: Pension fund chickens come home to roost / From Bernard H Casey, Social...
...And our colleague Josephine Cumbo has an interview with the outgoing chief investment officer at Calstrs....
...The Lex team is interested in hearing more from readers. Please tell us what you think of the prospects for the Shein IPO in the comments section below....
...Several readers wrote in to say it does. Ben in Chicago pointed us to a paper finding the existence of “contrast effects”....
...Jennifer Hughes’ letter yesterday, called “You don’t remember rising rates”, was met with mail from several distinguished readers who said they did, in fact, remember....
...Previous winners include Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain and Helen Macdonald’s H is for Hawk....
...The author remarked that she had “stolen his heart” — a sentiment echoed by many readers....
...This is not to say that every member or voter for the AfD or FPÖ is versed in their Carl Schmitt or H.S....
...For this tour, I’ve picked some longish-term residents and, while I can’t guarantee that any one work will be on view when readers pay their visit, my idiosyncratic list hints at the museum’s dizzying range...
...To stay with period-set crime, Scarlet Town (Viper £16.99) by Leonora Nattrass transports the reader to 18th-century Cornwall and corrupt electioneering in a divided town....
...Eleanor Marx, Karl’s daughter, is found under “H for Hopeless Cases” — although the reader may question whether that is entirely fair, as part of the issue seems to have been that Marx (perhaps appropriately...
...Careful readers will spot a muddle....
...As we report, the Robert H Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland is launching a new Online Master of Science in Management Studies this year, while Audencia offers students the option of...
...(Ethan Wu) Uber and stock-based comp Longtime readers of FT’s Alphaville blog will remember Izabella Kaminska’s long-running argument that Uber, the ride-hailing app, has an irredeemably bad business model...
...The Jules Verne of investment research (H/T Adam Tooze) has left Credit Suisse after it was devoured by UBS....
...Readers’ advice Giving back to community and helping others through charity and service is a great start....
...Regular readers will know my views on marathon running — one and done, thanks very much, to raise money for a tiny local charity in London’s East End where I am a chair of governors....
...The ONS makes available a handy Excel spreadsheet to help the interested reader (h/t Pantheon Macroeconomics’ Samuel Tombs)....
...I am indebted to Inside Politics reader Rupert Dickinson for this week’s listening. He recommended that I listen to Miles Davis’s soundtrack for Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (Spotify link here)....
...Readers can come to their own conclusions....
...The phenomenon is hard to explain, because it is hard to understand, for me as much as for my readers....
...(DD readers may remember him as the investor who poured $1.9bn into companies owned by Gautam Adani earlier this month.)...
...‘How Trust Works: The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired’, by Peter H Kim Regardless of who we are or where we were born, we know what it means to have our trust broken — or perhaps...
...The eagle-eyed FTAV readers will have no doubt noticed several key differences to the first question....
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