Hints and tips:
...After American Psycho, with the country on shaky ground post-tech bust, post-9/11, film-makers got serious about money....
...Steven Spielberg, Steven Soderbergh and Oliver Stone will not be scrambling for the rights to his life, as they did over the Pentagon Papers source Daniel Ellsberg; environmental whistleblower Erin Brockovich...
...Job moves Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired private credit lawyer Lisa Stevens as a restructuring partner in London. She joins from Kirkland & Ellis....
...Now 70, Van Zandt — aka Little Steven or Miami Steve — seems to have lived numerous lives and to all his incarnations, and to this narration, he brings a striking fearlessness, an apparently unquenchable...
...Its joint venture with Tencent to stream its music in China is a start, but building its presence in Asia and other low to middle-income countries will be essential to Universal’s longevity....
...If policymakers get their act together soon, the macro disruption may result in only a quarter of negative GDP in this country instead of two or three as investors are beginning to fear.”...
...The most venerable is the latest stage in the Airbus-Boeing litigation, aka the Jarndyce vs Jarndyce of the World Trade Organization dispute settlement system....
...Annyeong haseyo from the heart of the global technology supply chain, aka Seoul, where autumn is well and truly upon us, creating some stunning colours in the hills surrounding the city and making shots...
...These purchases are helping the Fed increase bank reserves within the financial system, thus preventing further bouts of turmoil in the short-term funding, aka the repurchase or repo market....
...Countries including Argentina and Turkey have been among the hardest hit....
...When the US Federal Reserve first suggested that it would taper its bond buying programme, aka quantitative easing, aka QE, back in May 2013, emerging markets went into a spin....
...For something completely different, try Emmy the Great (aka singer-songwriter Emma-Lee Moss) and Tim Wheeler (from the band Ash) and their shlocky horror Christmas show....
...That is how we must read his advertisements for Country Life butter (is there any other nation on earth that would understand the layers of irony?)...
...As Citi’s Steven Englander said, even the US Fed has not been as explicit in discussing QE....
...The film never answers, and barely acknowledges, the question: “What should a country do when threatened by terrorism?”...
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