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...A trained lawyer whose name still sits atop Los Angeles law firm Munger, Tolles & Olson, he met Buffett in 1959....
...Private assets such as real estate and unlisted shares and bonds are often valued using models that are typically slower to respond to deteriorating market conditions than listed assets....
...Now, while the bank has been “executing in the ultra-high net worth space for a very long time . . . we have the benefit of internally having more of a highlight on it”, said Kristin Olson, a partner who...
...Swampians who are familiar with Mancur Olson’s The Logic of Collective Action and The Rise and Decline of Nations will understand why (both are still essential books)....
...the Virginia home of Republican donor Michelle Olson, with tickets for $5,800 a person....
...Whether in sales, talent management, copy or design, the Don Drapers and Peggy Olsons of today all dream about the same thing: to be the creators, not just the creatives....
...As Mancur Olson argued in The Rise and Decline of Nations, civilisations fall when the moneyed interests capture the system in just this way....
...That business — HomeServices — is now one of Berkshire’s jewels, and one of the largest residential real estate brokers in the US....
...“It’s part of my DNA. My father is buried in the Woodland Cemetery designed by Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. It’s the most beautiful place.”...
...This is still a mixed neighbourhood, with dense social housing, denuded social facilities and deprivation alongside some of London’s most expensive real estate....
...MayMo co-founder and chief executive Edwin Olson says the safety operators have been told to err on the side of a smooth ride, even if it means sacrificing autonomy....
...March 16-23; from £1,950; workshopbyjennyjones.com Running, Gran Canaria, Spain Regular runners often find the sport is good at quietening their busy minds, but Timothy Olson of Run Mindful encourages...
...This is a superb example of Mancur Olson’s Logic of Collective Action : concentrated interests override the general one....
...One particularly strong nexus places Stockholm’s ArkDes Museum’s presentation of Sigurd Lewerentz’s classical-turned-modernist architecture alongside a display of Italian architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni...
...The builders had skimped by circumventing the estates of obstructive landowners and going over hills instead of through them....
...- “Oren Alexander, the Miami-based real estate agent to the rich, no longer thinks of his clients as second-home buyers....
...“We out here in the country are tired of the ruling class and the attitude of people that try to rule and really don’t rule from a position of conviction,” said David Olson, a 68-year old former real estate...
...Activity in some narrowly-defined sectors such as commercial real estate has weakened sharply up to and following the referendum....
...Called the Studio House, it was designed by Tom Kundig, a principal at Seattle-based Olson Kundig Architects and winner of several National Institute of Architects awards....
...● Brett Olson is moving to a newly created position as head of fixed income, Emea, for iShares, the ETF arm of BlackRock. He joins from Nomura....
...For Mr Vidales, a real estate agent who kept plugging away through the depths of the foreclosure crisis, the trouble is now the shortage of homes for sale, the clamour from buyers and the soaring valuations...
...● John Claxon of BNP Paribas Real Estate joins Cordea Savills to head its UK segregated mandates....
...Further, it would scrap the estate tax, the capital gains tax, the double taxation of dividends and the payroll tax, which funds the social security retirement scheme....
...Stall Points: Most Companies Stop Growing, Yours Doesn’t Have To by Matthew Olson and Derek van Bever. Which book had the most impact on your career?...
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