Hints and tips:
...For example, you could say “I’m looking to feed four people for around £6 per head.” Where’s the offal?...
...In acquiring Fusion and Amolyt, the deal takes AstraZeneca’s M&A spending to $3.4bn in the past week....
...That must be changing the outlook for the profession and I’m not sure the government is fully seized by the urgency of this crisis,” he said....
...It’s a familiar bit of improv in which I walk around and act as though I’m looking for friends when, really, I’m about to make a run for the toilet because I’m bursting for a pee....
...It makes no sense to say: “I’m not going to buy until we reach bottom.” We never know when we’re at the bottom, and certainly I’m not saying we are today....
...Marks’s speech is like his prose: simple, conversational and peppered with quotes, adages and anecdotes by everyone from Albert Einstein and John Kenneth Galbraith to the Chinese general Sun Tzu and American...
...In fact, the JK Galbraith quote, the economist JK Galbraith said that meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do any work....
...That’s why I’m sure that as long as humans are involved in the investment process, we’ll see these trends recur time and time again....
...You know, I’m 66 now. I thought, ‘Do I want to just play out the string, or do I try to make it more interesting?’”...
...Rana Foroohar responds Ed, I’m 52 and I’m right there with you. I love your tribute to the Queen and totally share your admiration for her....
...The main stadium and a smaller, second one sprawl over a 90,000 sq m site by the south-east corner of Yoyogi Park, a vast green oasis in the heart of the city....
...“I’m sure Warren Buffett is a great guy, but when it comes to stocks he’s washed up....
...JK Rowling — who chose not to use her first name to keep her identity gender-neutral, at least on her book covers — had a brief escape into the pseudonym of Robert Galbraith before she was rumbled....
...Strathclyde, or to give him his full name Thomas Galloway Dunlop du Roy de Blicquy Galbraith, recalls: “I said: ‘Just in case.’ And had another drink.”...
...“I'm really appealing to every Texan to wear a mask,” said Dr Deborah Birx, a member of the White House coronavirus task force during a Dallas press conference alongside Mr Pence....
...And I’m wondering: why is there no central WHO-type body doing this? Why is it a bunch of internet denizens doing this?...
...Galbraith once put it well: “I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I’m for that. Where the government is necessary, I’m for that....
...“I’m a Remainer, it’s been a disaster,” she said. “I can’t vote for Boris, he is a buffoon.”...
...I’m going to be reporting on this, and will share more as I know....
...We live in an age of pseudonymous crime writers: Sam Bourne (Jonathan Freedland), Robert Galbraith (JK Rowling) — and it’s no secret that ‘John Lincoln’ is the talented Welsh crime writer (and biographer...
...I decided that since George Eliot had made the cut, Galbraith could too....
...As someone who cherishes any opportunity to procrastinate, I’m not sure what I think of this innovation....
...M&A can have pitfalls, though. “Narrowly focused managers are at a big disadvantage right now but consolidation is risky if you don’t have a record of success....
...In 2013 Rowling released a detective novel for adults, The Cuckoo’s Calling, under the name Robert Galbraith, later celebrating the fact that she “successfully channelled my inner bloke” after her editor...
...“Yup, it’s breakfast in Dubai, lunch in Kuwait, dinner in London . . . ” I’m lucky enough to catch the Iranian collector and financier on his twilight leg....
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