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...Morgan Stanley has named Diana Doyle and Lauren Garcia Belmonte as co-heads of technology equity capital markets in the Americas....
...“He [Mr Maduro] might as well have chosen pegging it to unicorns,” said Russ Dallen, head of Caracas Capital, an investment bank....
...Here’s James Bessen in conversation with Russ Roberts, transcribed by James Pethokoukis: And so, what’s happened is that cash-handling has obviously become less important for tellers....
...Others include Orestes Alfonso and Pablo Garcia, both in Miami, and Carmelo, a 90-year old relojero, also in Miami “and still going strong”....
...“Venezuela is running out of runway and falling oil prices are quickly shortening the tarmac,” says Russ Dallen, who heads investment bank, Latinvest....
...But García disagrees with the Comandante....
...“There will be a cut in total imports this year, about 15 per cent,” estimates Henkel García, a director at Econométrica, a Caracas-based consultancy....
...So, for Henkel García, a director at Econométrica, a Caracas-based consultancy, Banesco’s purchase “is part of a strategy of generating resources out of Venezuela in a currency other than the [local] bolívar...
...It’s still just best option out of any asset class,” says Andres Garcia-Amaya, global market strategist at JPMorgan Funds....
...For the commute home, where the only industrial policy is your children’s allowance, and returns decline by the year, - Dani Rodrik vs Russ Roberts on industrial policy and entrepreneurs....
...Related links: Governmental rescues of “Too-Big-To-Fail” financial institutions – FCIC Russ Roberts on moral hazard – The Money Illusion...
...On screen, amid the swirl of well-known faces (Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo, pictured; Danny Glover; Gael García Bernal), we ask all the literalistic questions the book never provoked....
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