Hints and tips:
...The UK spends billions on R&D but relative peanuts on the gatekeepers that bring products to market. The balance needs to be adjusted. And relatively speaking, you’ll get a lot of bang for your buck....
...As the late financial historian Peter Bernstein later recounted to PBS: This had never happened in history. It was a really unique experience....
...I also meet Gregg Wilson, part of the Eon production team and grandson of co-founder Albert R “Cubby” Broccoli, and take the opportunity to ask him how they decide the theme of the next Bond movie....
...“So many companies have really benefited greatly from the zero cost of capital,” says Greg Peters, co-chief investment officer at PGIM fixed income....
...He self-describes as a “big R” Republican and a “little L” libertarian. He’s non-interventionist, but this is not as counterintuitive as it sounds....
...Catharine Bond Hill, managing director of Ithaka S+R, a higher education consultancy, said that far greater focus and funding is necessary in the US for these less exclusive colleges....
...He tells me the UK government’s R&D budget is approaching £20bn a year, and that private-sector R&D now exceeds public money roughly threefold....
...I’ll be filling in this week for Peter Foster, who is on book leave writing even more about Brexit....
...Job moves Peter Clare, one of the most senior dealmakers at Carlyle Group, is retiring after over three decades at the firm....
...plus, of course, the Californian Tesla Model S....
...“The hung [loans] have clogged up the system and held up capital but is likely temporary,” said Peter Gleysteen, chief executive of asset manager AGL Credit Management....
...But my favourite of these unavoidables is a very battered, water-spotted 1870 edition of 1821’s Life in London: or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorne, Esq, and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom...
...The Snapchat parent warned that revenues in the forthcoming quarter would be between $1.16bn and $1.2bn, well below the current consensus estimate of $1.4bn, according to S&P Capital IQ....
...“I thought those guys were an R&B band who hadn’t worked that out yet,” he says lugubriously....
...S&P 500 companies are forecast to record a 21.5 per cent rise in earnings per share compared with last year....
...Surrey, UK; Max Stewart, Australia; David Brown, Massachusetts, US Polymath 1,048: Craig Shadbolt, New Jersey, US Crossword 16,320: Robert Holloway, Paris, France; Michael Shipster, Winchester, England; S...
...N.S.P.R.! Wooo. Up 100 grand. Stay baby. What is NSPR, and why do I have 400 grand of it? Oh, yeah. Girl I went on a date with she’s like talking stocks. She’s like ‘I’m studying the stock market . . ....
...Galerie M + R Fricke, Beusselstrasse 66, 10553 Berlin Moabit (galeriefricke.de), and see abebooks.co.uk. Peter Harrington Rare Books, 100 Fulham Road, London SW3 (peterharrington.co.uk)....
...Peter Westaway: Inflation is starting the year a long way above target and will gradually return towards but not to target by end-year....
...“We have the conditions for a perfect storm: lower demand, increasing R&D budgets, and [the potential of] fines. “Everyone will be crossing the desert.”...
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...If Debt/GDP is about 1 now (UK-US levels) you can run a primary deficit of (g-r) — where g is growth rate and r is real cost of borrowing — and keep Debt/GDP constant....
...A long-time fan of knitting, the American artist Sterling Ruby launched a selection of sweaters earlier this year as part of his fashion line S.R. Studio. LA....
...And Peter Schiff’s bitcoin wallet “got corrupted somehow”. Reader, what do we miss? Tell us below....
...Ankara also faces potential US sanctions over the purchase of the S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile system, which has exacerbated already deep rifts between the two Nato allies....
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