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...playing field for developers or sponsors that don’t have strong balance sheets . . . but it’s still very bespoke,” said Antony Joyce, managing director of tax liability insurance and transactional risk at Marsh...
...Planet Earth III came out a month ago, and I have not yet worked up the strength to get through a whole episode in one go....
...As Franklin Delano Roosevelt put it in a 1936 speech, “We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair....
...Theodore Roosevelt said “no amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them”....
...Another sharp barb came from civil rights advocates Reverend Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III, who critiqued the virtually all-white Delaware Chancery court, the venue where deals are ratified or disputed...
...Franklin D Roosevelt died in office months before allied victory in Europe, widely adored as a war hero but loathed by critics as a dangerous socialist....
...President Theodore Roosevelt launched an investigation of the company and, in a landmark ruling in 1911, the Supreme Court ordered Standard Oil broken up....
...“I’ve thought a lot about Macbeth: when you’re halfway through the river, you might as well go to the other side,” said one friend, referring to the Scottish general’s monologue in Act III when he describes...
...If Joe Kennedy III comes up short this week, he will be the first in his family to lose a primary in Massachusetts....
...(FT) The Man Who Ran Washington — biography of James Baker For three decades and more, James A Baker III was the face of American power, writes Lionel Barber....
...Rundell’s whole book is excellent and analytically rigorous but Part III, with its chapters on tribes, clerics, merchants and technocrats who, under the royal family, were the foundations of Saudi rule after...
...In the next track, “Marsh”, he threatens to treat his detractors as “a stepparent does to a stepchild with red hair”....
...John Jacob Astor III’s house became a nexus for New York society and on his death in 1890, the site was passed to his son William Waldorf Astor (who later in England became a peer and bought Cliveden and...
...In practice, the only successful instance, other than Nixon, of Americans removing a leader was George III....
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt had money. John F Kennedy had money. It’s not what your bank account is. It’s what you believe. It’s what you’re fighting for. Money doesn’t define me....
...(Holmes commonly gets the citation because he was quoted by Franklin Roosevelt in 1936, although American variants of the theme go back at least as far as 1848....
...Suspicion of Big Finance is an axis on which US politics turns, dating from the Revolution through Jefferson, Jackson, Jennings Bryan, and both Roosevelts....
...Not a giant business, but according to Stephen Kay, head of US political risk and structured credit at Marsh, the insurance brokerage: “Historically, this has been an attractive line....
...Littleton Glover III, Goldman’s head of Emea leveraged finance origination, hails from a fine US banking dynasty – with a name like that, who’d have guessed?...
...We both think it was a Marsh Fritillary, floating above the red fescue, but neither of us is as keen sighted as 50 years ago....
...There is even a park on the Brooklyn side of that borough’s eponymous bridge where a wine bar can be found amid marsh marigolds, swamp roses and pussy willows....
...The problem is that the brave men and women of the US military have been trained – in the words of Theodore Roosevelt – to “carry a big stick”....
...President Roosevelt controlled both the nation’s gold stock and monetary policy, so long as the Federal Reserve remained inactive....
...Indeed, modern central banking runs on three key principles: i) inflation targeting improves growth prospects in the medium run ii) inflation targeting effectively means inflation forecast targeting iii...
...“We’re also seeing a lot of banks pulling back from trade financing for a number of reasons, including Basel III [the new regulatory regime for the world’s banks].”...
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