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...Gates’s father was a well-known lawyer and his mother came from a prominent banking family, while Buffett Sr was a member of the US House of Representatives....
...Brazil’s fintech darling aims for a New York debut Whether winning over Warren Buffett or appointing pop star Anitta to its board, Nubank has shown a flair for capturing the headlines this year....
...For example, they don’t want cities to deploy police, who carry guns, to treat someone having a mental health crisis. That’s what happened in January in Killeen, Texas, to Patrick Warren Sr....
...Hearn Sr has brought darts and snooker to new fans and financial heights....
...Nancy Bush, analyst at Georgia-based NAB Research, draws a parallel between Mr Buffett and John Pierpont Morgan Sr, the financier who assembled a room full of bankers in 1907 to head off a market crisis....
...David Sr was one of the first signatories of the Giving Pledge, the initiative led by Warren Buffett and Bill and Melinda Gates that has persuaded billionaires from investor Bill Ackman to Facebook’s Mark...
...Lord Ridley — Matt to his friends — had come to beg Lord King, then plain Sir Mervyn, for money....
...Remember how Alan Greenspan confessed to that “flaw” in his thinking or how Mervyn King reacted to the fall of Northern Rock with a lecture about moral hazard, while everything fell apart — that’s economics...
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway still owns a minority stake in Wrigley, for instance....
...But Gramm, who himself runs a hedge fund, is an engaging and critical guide to a century of US activism and activists, including Ross Perot and Warren Buffett....
...“Warren Buffett’s whole life he has believed his kids should make their own way.”...
...Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, knew better and remarked that financial derivatives then being invented were “financial weapons of mass destruction”....
...“I can’t find anyone in the central banking community who thinks it’s a good idea,” Sir Mervyn King, departing governor of the Bank of England, remarked last week....
...between him and Sir Mervyn....
...Lions coach Warren Gatland will hope to echo him this time around. ——————————————- Memorable tours 1888 Australia and New Zealand The first Lions tour took the 22-player squad on a passage by sailboat...
...Berkshire Hathaway announced that Warren Buffett was diagnosed with Stage I prostate cancer....
...He was also quick to embrace publicly the 2010 Bill Gates-Warren Buffett “Giving Pledge” that called on the US’s wealthiest to give away the bulk of their fortunes – “although I am a small fish compared...
...There is also a debate to be had about whether capital gains should be taxed at a much lower rate than normal income. Warren Buffet has pointed out that he pays lower taxes than his office cleaner....
...NEWS Warren Buffett disclosed on Tuesday that he has stage-one prostate cancer....
...(Is there a tradition of this? What would the equivalent be? Did John Major invite George Bush Sr to ride in a minibus to the Oval to watch his beloved Surrey take on Leicester?)...
...and Mervyn Cooke, Boydell Press, £45, 880 pages The upcoming centenary of Britten’s birth (November 22) has opened up a wealth of illuminating detail....
...Bill Gates Sr, father of Bill Gates Jr, the founder of Microsoft, led a campaign to approve a ballot initiative that would have imposed an additional levy on the wealthiest state residents....
...Letters from a Life: The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976: Volume 6: 1966-1976, edited by Philip Reed and Mervyn Cooke, Boydell Press RRP£45 The sixth volume of Britten’s letters covers...
...It has been more than a year since Bank of England governor Mervyn King warned us that banks that are too big to fail are simply too big. Yet the debate continues to rage....
...Treasury; Warren Chane, ECONOFF. UK: Mervyn King, Governor, Bank of England; Chris Salmon, Private Secretary. 7. (U) Deputy Secretary Kimmitt has cleared this message....
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