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...A callout from Working It reader Calum Carson, senior research associate at the University of Lancaster....
...Elizabeth Tabas Carson, a partner at Reed Smith, said selling companies have typically assisted private equity firms in raising deal financing, but at the very least may become less keen to do this....
...Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters, said YY Live was about “90 per cent fraudulent” and suggested Baidu was attempting to buy growth in the form of an “almost completely fake business”....
...Additional reporting by Nian Liu, Ryan McMorrow and Emma Zhou in Beijing, Robert Smith in London This article has been amended to reflect that the US Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act was passed...
...Everyone from SoftBank and TPG Capital, to former basketball star Shaquille O’Neal, and former US House Speaker Paul Ryan got in on the party....
...Private equity firm Carlyle has appointed Ryan Selwood as its chief development officer, to work on growth initiatives and corporate M&A....
...On Monday, Ryan Cohen, co-founder of pet products retailer Chewy, was appointed to help oversee GameStop’s transition towards ecommerce....
...Edward Carson, leader of the Ulster Unionists, saw the proposal as “wrecking manoeuvre” against the entire plan for home rule rather than a goal....
...Coming up: Join DD’s Robert Smith for a look back at some of the most high-profile accounting scandals in recent years with Carson Block, the short-seller behind Muddy Waters Research....
...Auden, the writer Carson McCullers and the burlesque entertainer Gypsy Rose Lee, who was writing a novel of her own....
...(Here’s Politico’s look inside Ryan’s decision to essentially dump Trump.)...
...Some of the failed presidential contenders, including New Jersey governor Chris Christie and Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, have backed Mr Trump....
...initial remarks, Trump has held his line of attack, telling CNN over the weekend that he believed a Muslim judge would not be fair in a case against him either, despite Republican leaders such as Paul Ryan...
...Paul Ryan, the House Speaker, who was due to address delegates on Tuesday night, is adding new depth to the term “lukewarm”....
...– Trump, arguing that there Ryan might be part of a “sinister deal” to undermine his candidacy....
...Ryan clearly knows the rules about becoming president if you watch this interview, recorded when he was 28....
...Even some of those addressing the convention, such as Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, have been critical of Mr Trump....
...Then comes Mr Cruz on 226, Mr Rubio on 110, Mr Kasich with 25 and Mr Carson with eight....
...The Republican primaries are currently dominated by two larger-than-life iconoclasts, Ben Carson and Donald Trump. Mr Ryan cuts a different figure....
...Mr Boehner’s response was to agree with Mr Ryan, even to the point of using the same verb. “It stinks,” he said. “This is not the way to run a railroad.”...
...The chaos within the Republican party in Congress has been mirrored across the country in the presidential election where two outsiders, Donald Trump and Ben Carson, are dominating the race for the Republican...
...Mr Ryan has, for example, been seeking to expand the earned income tax credit for childless adults — a poverty-fighting tool also favoured by Mr Obama....
...Republicans from Dick Cheney, the former vice-president, to Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, have criticised Mr Trump over his un-American rhetoric....
...The same trend has upended the party’s presidential race where Donald Trump and Ben Carson — two outsiders — are leading the race for the Republican nomination....
...This week Brad Carson, a Pentagon undersecretary, warned that the defence cuts could push the US army to “near breaking point”, leaving it with 420,000 active duty soldiers....
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