Hints and tips:
...A vision of Bridget Jones, reporting for Sit Up Britain and sliding down a fireman’s pole towards the camera flashes in my mind. Sheer embarrassment drives me the rest of the way. Blackwood follows....
...Now turned into a $55mn movie directed by Ron Howard, Thirteen Lives follows a number of previous interpretations of the story, including the Bafta-nominated documentary The Rescue, made by Elizabeth Chai...
...“Ron was a bon vivant who really knew how to live,” says Jones. “His hosting skills and parties were absolutely legendary.”...
...“Index providers should share the benefits of scale with investors,” said Ron Bundy, head of Morningstar Indexes....
...The Washington-based Peterson Institute, meanwhile, has called for a debt standstill for low and middle income countries, a topic that looks set to dominate the forthcoming (virtual) IMF and World Bank spring...
...Liikanen remains a probable alternative and would also be a good leader for the ECB for many of the same reasons as V. de Galhau....
...Oliver Jones, economist, Fathom Consulting We expect inflation to rise to a little below 3% in mid-2017....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Open question. Depends if he injects a major fiscal stimulus....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College Most unlikely....
...David Blanchflower, Bruce V. Rauner professor, Dartmouth College My guess is he will be too timorous to do the right thing....
...Adam Posen, president, Peterson Institute for International Economics I do not know how much it will change....
...Adam Posen, president, Peterson Institute for International Economics By 0.75-1.0 per cent (real yoy)....
...Adam Posen, president, Peterson Institute for International Economics More optimistic than 12 months ago I was so dreadfully pessimistic that I overshot in my expectations of gilt sell-off....
...One way to picture the economic impact of a Brexit may be the shape of a letter ‘V’ or a ‘tick’....
...Mark Jones, director, Victoria and Albert Museum. Michael Marshall, chairman, Marshall of Cambridge, aerospace and motor group. Ian McGeechan, British Lions Rugby coach....
...“Our competitors get into these brand wars like Coke v Pepsi,” says Zimmer at UTA....
...Onetime presidential hopeful and current Republican congressman Ron Paul has an interesting piece of legislation wending its way through the US capitol....
...That is not happening write Gary Hufbauer and Jeffrey Schott of the Peterson Institute....
...He used the time to give V&A director Mark Jones a quick private preview of the “mutated” Brajkovic chair, one of a limited edition of eight; Mabunda’s “found objects” throne, a one-off; and the soft Levy...
...But they also cautioned that there may not be a simple V-shaped recovery....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 22 per cent, by far the greatest single-day fall in its history....
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