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...I’m reporter Ethan Wu here in the New York studio, joined by supercompany analyst Robert Armstrong. Robert ArmstrongI think of myself as a supercompany, period. Supercompany Rob Armstrong....
...Then I read W. Brian Arthur’s paper “Increasing Returns and the New World of Business”....
...Robert Armstrong(Laughter) Well, you know. Jonathan GuthrieWhat’s your observation, having been in this business almost as long as me?...
...Email us your cockamamie schemes: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. New year, same old CRE On the list of 2023’s overwrought market fears, commercial real estate ranked high....
...The title track takes aim at a dumbed-down America led by the unintellectual George W Bush, “one nation controlled by the media”, as Armstrong sings....
...Email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. China: OK growth meets property tail risks While China’s property sector remains in crisis, its business cycle seems to have stabilised....
...But for now, email us: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Trump’s second term We don’t write about politics much at Unhedged, because we don’t have political expertise....
...“Maybe some billionaire wants to play movie mogul,” explains Richard Rushfield, editorial director of entertainment industry daily newsletter The Ankler....
...On the walls of his condo, which is a short walk from the hospital where his oncologist works, original Andy Warhol prints featuring Mao Zedong and George Armstrong Custer hang near some Benito Mussolini...
...Email me: robert.armstrong@ft.com. Potemkin rate increases A Potemkin village is a facade designed to impress, but without any real substance....
...This industrial heritage is reflected in Novocastrian’s location, just outside Newcastle city centre on the Armstrong estate, named after the pioneering 19th-century industrialist and engineer William Armstrong...
...Ethan WuNobody does the equivalent for their W-2. Robert ArmstrongNo, indeed. Ethan WuWhere it’s Joe Biden saying, I did this. No, it’s the worker that did that. Robert ArmstrongYeah....
...Into this breach rides new chief executive Richard Dickson, formerly of Mattel, who is credited with the revival of the Barbie brand, which has culminated in a hit movie....
...The bickering rings true — as does the warmth — and it’s beautifully delivered by Alun Armstrong and Marion Bailey in a production co-directed by Richard Wilson and Terry Johnson....
...Other men like jewellery from the Keith Richards/Tyler Perry/Jack Sparrow school: hoop earrings, skull motifs, chain links that look like barbed wire. Perhaps a bit of Westernalia....
...Email me: robert.armstrong@ft.com. The low-end theory Last week I acted as a panel moderator at the FT Business of Luxury Summit in Monaco. It was a lot of fun....
...This is known as “Stein’s law”, after the late Herbert Stein, former chair of Richard Nixon’s Council of Economic Advisers....
...Rooms at the W hotel start from £390 per night...
...Let us know your thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...and a former political editor of The Sun newspaper, has been poached to head the new business alongside Victoria O’Byrne, a former communications director for the Prince and Princess of Wales and for Sir Richard...
...It was Richard Feynman, the physics Nobel laureate, who found out what went wrong, and why, not the politicians, lawyers or soldiers, or even the astronaut Neil Armstrong....
...Email us your thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Shameless plug: Armstrong is the guest on this week’s Behind the Money podcast. Listen in and subscribe!...
...The first real test came when Richard Nixon was accused of criminal activity amid the Watergate scandal....
...Saints or sinners, newsworthy names found a welcoming home between W&N covers....
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