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...Independent research firms have suffered as well, feeling the competitive squeeze from the cut-price packages of the big banks....
...“While real incomes have stagnated, the value of wealth — driven in particular by house price increases — has continued to rise,” it said in a report last year....
...The turnaround in sentiment has sparked a rebound in uranium prices, which have tripled since the start of 2021 to $106 per pound, a 16-year high....
...The fair had whimsy: two books of Edward Lear’s nonsense, and one of Five Delightful and Irresistible Things....
...‘King Lear’, Almeida Theatre Yaël Farber directs Danny Sapani (Killing Eve, Black Panther) in the title role of the Shakespearean tragedy....
...Today we process chancellor Rishi Sunak’s continuing slide in the ConservativeHome rankings and Elon Musk’s looming purchase of Twitter (I for one think that $44bn is a very reasonable price given the quality...
...In the critically lauded, awards-festooned HBO drama Succession, a group of billionaire siblings vie with one another to win the favour of their media mogul father, who is one part Lear to two parts Rupert...
...It began with storms: the Fringe Society sparked anger with its decision to scrap the Half Price Hut and the official Fringe App, both valuable ways for performers to sell tickets....
...A scene-steal at a romantic dinner is worth the price of admission alone....
...Verdi was so inspired by Shakespeare, and this is the King Lear opera that he never managed to write....
...The “temporary” is what ensures that we can all eventually enjoy the benefits of new ideas at the lowest possible cost: there is no need for King Lear or the wheel to enjoy IP protection in the 21st century...
...Barnier also prefaces the book with the lament of King Lear, who in anguish beats his own head “that let thy folly in/And thy dear judgment out!”....
...It’s been said that it’s the task of academic economists to play the role of the Lear-like fool, telling truth to power and challenging convention....
...Final thought Shakespeare allegedly wrote King Lear during a plague and Newton reportedly formulated the theory of gravity in quarantine....
...Read more Ursula von der Leyen has warned China and other large fossil fuel producers to find a way to price carbon at home or risk being hit by the EU with a planned CO2 tax on imports....
...Now they have discovered that they can follow airlines and Uber by adopting dynamic prices. These rise alongside demand, cutting into the margins of scalpers....
...He accepts that as “the price you pay to be free”....
...As with King Lear, pure financial analysis tends to presume that nothing will come of nothing. But King Lear, after all, was deluded. And then he went mad....
...The amoral younger generation all seem emotionally damaged, which amplifies questions about care: Claire Price’s prim Goneril discovers a vengeful, greedy streak; Kirsty Bushell’s disturbing, sadistic Regan...
...There’s an old man primed for stoical revolt after his son says “Dad, please go to a nursing home” — he leaves to wander the cutpurse streets like a cut-price Lear — and there’s a petty hoodlum, the assault...
...The deal values RSP’s assets at about $76,000 per acre of drilling rights, which was “substantially higher” than for other acquisitions in the Permian in the past couple of years, according to Mark Lear,...
...We discussed the extent to which private companies seek only to achieve maximisation of their share price when they are listed....
...But it’s a painful and original piece about the terrible price of conflict and oppression....
...This messy end to Robert Mugabe’s 37 years in power has echoes of King Lear: motives for the military intervention are more to do with settling internal scores, he writes, than preparing a brave new Zimbabwean...
...Like King Lear, Mr dos Santos cannot expect to hand over power and retain it simultaneously. His starting point is worse than Lear’s....
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