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...Then I read W. Brian Arthur’s paper “Increasing Returns and the New World of Business”....
...If you have strong opinions about anything else, send them along: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com. Is the rally over?...
...Robert W Baird & Co agreed to pay $15mn, and William Blair & Company and an affiliate paid $10mn. The other businesses included Nuveen Securities and Fifth Third Securities....
...Rick Rieder of BlackRock makes this point in a recent note....
...We asked Rick Palacios of John Burns Real Estate Consulting what has driven the homebuilder rally....
...Maga Inc, a pro-Trump super Pac, has booked just $6.5mn....
...More recently, Robert Pattinson wore one with aplomb in The Batman....
...[question] of law and fact is suspect,” said Robert Lande, professor emeritus at the University of Baltimore School of Law....
...But Trump supporters are out,” said Robert Wheeler, a 63-year-old Republican leaning towards DeSantis who works in manufacturing....
...Email me your own thoughts: robert.armstrong@ft.com....
...In November Rick Rieder, chief investment officer of global fixed income at BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, said bitcoin could eventually replace gold in investors’ portfolios....
...On the 30th anniversary of the visit in 2002, then US president George W Bush was in Beijing to mark the moment....
...W Baird....
...A former economic adviser to president George W Bush in the White House, she also served on the National Economic Council....
...A Republican presidential candidate has won the popular vote just once since the end of the cold war (George W Bush in 2004, not coincidentally after he had expanded Medicare)....
...It was Trump who chose Robert Redfield to head the CDC in spite of widespread warnings about the former military officer’s controversial record....
...The question is, is it U-shaped, is it W-shaped or parts of it L-shaped?”...
...We need to change the cycle, writes the FT’s Robert Armstrong....
..., Mike Kelley, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell and Robert Rauschenberg....
...Smart reads Psychedelic fundraiser Rick Doblin is leading the charge to legalise the medicinal use of MDMA for PTSD-treatment. His biggest opportunity? Burning Man in Black Rock City....
...Mr Trump, meanwhile, has seen off Robert Mueller’s investigation and is preparing for a re-election campaign that he has at least even odds of winning....
...As Robert Thomson, a partner at Roland Berger, puts it: “The safety case for flying taxis buzzing around tall buildings in all weathers is difficult.”...
...The exhibition brings together representations of masculinity from the 1960s to the present day from more than 50 leading photographers and film-makers, male and female, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy...
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