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...Smart reads From rugs to riches Drop everything you are doing and read this insane story by DD’s Robert Smith on how an alleged ex-gang member is tied to the Koch Industries-backed royal carpet maker Victoria...
...While not quite as famous as the other Jimmy Stewart, the author is without a doubt one of the most revered business journalists of his generation....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Ed Ford and Sacha Gofton-Salmond as partners on its secondaries team, based in London. Both join from Travers Smith....
...PSG’s fortunes will be closely watched by Manchester United and Liverpool: England’s two-best known clubs are also considering their options....
...The other Worcester family business is America and its military dead. They are professional patriots....
...The hotel commissioned pieces from dozens of local artists, and boasts rotating exhibits in public spaces, as well as a full-time curator, Lee Petrie....
...It came out in 2021, and I don’t know but something about it sounds familiar. [PARAMORE’s ‘MISERY BUSINESS’ PLAYING] This is “Misery Business,” by Paramore....
...He also began receiving a wave of messages on social media from the relatives of black veterans....
...They think Unibail’s plan for a €3.5bn rights issue is misguided and instead are urging for the company to sell its US business and focus on Europe. Doing so won’t be easy, as Lex points out....
...According to sovereign debt veteran Lee Buchheit and Duke professor Mitu Gulati, who proposed an executive order for Venezuelan assets in October of last year, such a measure would help to manage litigious...
...The former head of WPP has created a new agency called S4 Capital and is doing what he loves best: signing deals....
...A big flop that saw the Italian club miss out on as much as €35.5m in prize money alone....
...It also compares to listed peers such as Rathbones on c.15x P/E and SJP (a higher quality business in our view) on c.19x P/E....
...American consumer is still spending....
...Smart reads Junk behaviour Lee Stowell, a Wall Street veteran and junk bond saleswoman says she was bullied and harassed at the brokerage firm Cantor Fitzgerald. Now she wants her day in court....
...Meanwhile, Geraldine Slattery will replace Steve Pastor as head of the petroleum business and Laura Tyler is rejoining the executive leadership team as chief geoscientist. More here....
...Genish, a former Israeli army general, is also a telecoms industry veteran, well regarded for his record in Brazil....
...After the Phuket incident, a contingent of senior American bankers — known internally as “culture carriers” — were dispatched to instil a more buttoned-up way of doing business in the region....
...Her classmate Bryony Jones agrees: “As a mixed race woman, I don’t see anyone who looks like me doing economics.”...
...If Americans did not persuade Congress to reject it, he said, “behind it will come other federal programmes that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it”....
...It is true that the relationship of wage inflation and unemployment (also known as the Phillips curve) has become less apparent due to globalisation and technological advancement....
...I also enjoyed frequent visits to the Washington Square apartment of the veteran Hungarian photographer André Kertész to deliver cases of SX-70 film, accompanied always by conversation and glasses of Lillet...
...Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, by Rana Foroohar, Crown Business, RRP$30 Finance is a good servant but a bad master....
...As outrage grew, actor Will Smith and director Spike Lee announced a boycott of the awards....
...Clive Greenaway, also a professional Tommy Cooper impersonator, broke the world record for most jokes told in one minute, 26, breaking the previous record of 21. 7. Empire 8. Harper Lee....
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