Hints and tips:
.../ From Stephen “Swifty” Warden, Toronto, ON, Canada...
...Within weeks of Jes Staley starting as chief executive of Barclays in late 2015, he raided his former employer JPMorgan for a pair of executives whom he described as “two of the best bankers I know”....
...Stephen Machin: Doubtful....
...“The impact of Covid-19 has been both social and economic, and I believe [it] will be a key driver in shifting investors’ focus from a purely financial return to one that delivers a social impact too,” Stephen...
...Stephen Machin: Not up. Chris Martin: I expect to see regional, economic and social disparities widen in 2021....
...Mainly, however, because the Forest deal, coming two days after he turned 78, provided another opportunity for Mr Icahn to argue that activist investors are shareholders’ best defence against an entrenched...
...I felt more alive, more fully myself, when I finished it. When I read this week of Salter’s death, I wished I had met him, for all that he was....
...After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead, by Alan Blinder, Penguin, RRP$29.95 The best account I have read of the US financial crisis....
...After the Music Stopped : The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead, by Alan Blinder, Penguin Press, RRP$29.95, 496 pages This is the best account I have read of the US financial crisis....
...I don’t want to be flippant – I can’t be after seeing Channel 4’s footage of executed children – but going to the war-affected parts of the country, in the north and east, rather than swigging cocktails...
...Tens of thousands are cops, firefighters, correctional officers, and first responders. And we are on track to add another one and a half million jobs to this total by the end of the year....
...A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z6. The alphabet is here to help you with these questions....
...Forest asylum....
...in China from clear cutting loggers, and in the next, whimsically tinkling “M-i-c … k-e-y, M-o-u-s-e” on a William Knabe & Co. piano, circa 1904.”...
...PH-C: I’m from Sweden, and I just want to add onto what you said....
...They are collected in this volume, one of 2006’s most satisfying page-turners....
...Jasper Platz, Charleston, S. C. Avinash Persaud: I believe a sense of right and wrong is learned, or largely so....
...Intrigued, I bought the painting for £2,800 and set about discovering what I could about it. Rebecca Wilson Stephens, the gallery owner, told me the artist was Jessica Dismorr (1885-1939)....
...As Stephen indicated, by coincidence it was almost exactly ten years ago today that I last spoke before this group....
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