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...Billionaire donors such as Ken Griffin and Harold Hamm showered cash on anti-Trump candidates. But there was no strategy or co-ordination of their efforts....
...A pragmatist, he golfed with George W Bush and served with Fink on Donald Trump’s economic advisory council....
...Lutnick says he has learned from past mistakes, notably a failed joint venture in 2007 with Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities....
...Billionaires Ken Griffin, Stanley Druckenmiller, Paul Singer, and Warren Stephens spent combined more than $13mn helping Trump’s rival Nikki Haley in the primaries; Jeff Yass spent roughly $5mn for Vivek...
...Other major donors include Tim Dunn, the Midlands Texas oil billionaire whose spending on more conservative candidates has increased considerably since 2018, and John W Childs, the Florida-based private...
...Private equity billionaire John W Childs, another top-five donor, donated $975,000 to Trump’s re-election campaign together with his late wife....
...In Texas, the Republican primary nomination for attorney-general — between Trump-endorsed incumbent Ken Paxton and George P Bush, nephew of former president George W Bush — will also be closely watched....
...Texas attorney-general Ken Paxton said after the Supreme Court’s abortion decision that he could prosecute and levy fines on firms that facilitate the procedure for their employees....
...“Feedback from investors has centred a lot around those investments and just understanding what are the returns,” said Robert W Baird research analyst David George....
...In 2019, an apartment in Stern’s Deco revival tower 220 Central Park South became the most expensive US home ever sold when hedge-fund billionaire Ken Griffin paid $238mn for the 24,000 sq ft penthouse....
...She then purchased the watches using her own credit card and supplied Rolex with a fake buyer’s name, “Phoebe W”. Finally, she hawked the watches online to foreign buyers at a massive mark-up....
...“He’s really good at ‘othering’ people,” said Mac Stipanovich, a veteran Florida Republican activist who was involved in the 2000 recount that handed the presidency to George W Bush, but has grown disgusted...
...Ken Buck, the most senior Republican on the House antitrust committee, said: “Congress needs to provide additional tools and resources to our antitrust enforcers to go after Big Tech companies engaging in...
...Two decades ago, the Taliban’s refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden and his fellow al-Qaeda leaders provided the justification for US president George W Bush to launch the American-led invasion of Afghanistan...
...Who doesn’t adore old jazz-loving shambles and former Tory grandee Ken Clarke?...
...But twice as many big company CEOs have given to Mr Biden’s campaign, MarketWatch calculated, led by Disney’s Bob Iger, Edward Breen of DuPont and Merck’s Ken Frazier....
...Larry Lindsey, a Republican economist who served in the George W Bush administration, said: “Michelle knows more about the world and how things work than probably a solid majority of Congress.”...
...Fenway Sports Group, the investment vehicle controlled by US billionaire John W. Henry acquired Liverpool for £300m in 2010....
...It should look to divest the business to P&W, which currently has no offering in the widebody market. Sum-of-the-Parts Valuation: we have previously used a DCF model to generate a fair value....
...An early backer was Roy W Bailey, a Dallas insurance executive and prominent member of the state Republican party....
...Hank Paulson did the same job in George W Bush’s administration. Gary Cohn was economic adviser to Donald Trump....
...Here’s Shore Cap: [W]e consider environmental monitoring services to be a high-growth market, so are slightly surprised by the agreement to dispose of EMS B&K....
...“Seventy two and still robust, Martin Sorrell was unlikely to step down anytime soon,” Ken Auletta declares of the former chief executive of WPP at the end of Frenemies....
...“Clearly, New York Magazine has excelled in working the ‘Trump bump’ to national ascendancy, journalistically,” said Ken Doctor, analyst at Newsonomics....
...But as a point of comparison, the department filed 72 cases in the first year of the Obama presidency, and when George W Bush came into office, his administration brought 44 criminal antitrust prosecutions...
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