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...When Riley was young, his dad subjected him to a Myers-Briggs personality test. His dad’s reading was ENTJ, a commander, extroverted, intuitive. Riley’s came back as INTP, “a kind of queer jellyfish”....
...“When Sam didn’t have a home, Microsoft gave him one without hesitation — and when the whole company didn’t have a home, Microsoft gave them one,” said Briggs, who is now an analyst at Directions on Microsoft...
...“If this wasn’t gambling, I would think you would find enforcers looking at this as a fairly serious violation of antitrust rules because I can’t imagine there’s any kind of business rationale for that [...
...Who wouldn’t want to hide? The role of professional spouse is a deeply unappealing one....
...“You couldn’t build a first-class neighbourhood — at least right here you couldn’t. So, I said: let me get them out of the neighbourhood.” Doing so would not be easy....
...Consumer spending doesn’t seem to be slackening much either....
...“Some of the best collections in the US are in San Francisco,” adds Sean Kelly partner Thomas Kelly, “and those people haven’t left.”...
...And why don’t more year-aheads feature cute critters? We don’t know what the macroeconomic equivalent to falling out of a tree is, but we sure aren’t keen to find out....
...“Right now, there aren’t a lot of facts,” said Wong. “Companies are either investing on faith, or fear: fear they’ll fall behind.”...
...Instead of including PCE price inflation in the chart above (assuming we didn’t misunderstand the labelling), Briggs addresses it with the chart below....
...It is there when someone tells you their Myers-Briggs type. It is there when behaviours too banal to need labelling are called “gaslighting”. This isn’t just upper middle class boredom at work....
...“We don’t tell customers where to run their workloads nor does their choice of vendors factor into our pricing.”...
...As NatWest’s John Briggs puts it: I can’t help but think that a population where 40 per cent of the elderly are not fully vaccinated, has been indoctrinated to fear Covid, and has seen a rapid spread of...
...“In higher volatility moments, everything becomes correlated,” said John Briggs, head of US rates strategy at NatWest Markets....
.../Don’t stress. We’ve got you. For Christmas I am offering you a haiku – my contribution to the annual scramble that accompanies the gift frenzy....
...Estimates of the value it could add to the global economy vary from the 7 per cent of gross domestic product ($7tn) over 10 years predicted by Joseph Briggs, a Goldman Sachs economist to the $2.6tn to $4.4tn...
...The group — whose members also include Schroders chief Peter Harrison and Phoenix boss Andy Briggs — suggested that the Treasury consider tax exemptions to incentivise domestic investment....
...Andy Briggs, chief executive at insurance group Phoenix, said that “getting inflation under control and interest rates in sensible territory” was important....
...“Ridley hadn’t thought much about the music, but was considering maybe a boy soprano and electronic synthesiser....
...This idea has gained considerable traction as a result of the popular use of the Myers-Briggs test and as a personality test....
...Feeling invisible at work and that your views don’t matter. Margaret Hodge, who became a Labour MP at 50, once told me: “I get angry at the youth cult.”...
...“They can’t keep people from quitting and can’t hire people fast enough.”...
...After the treatment she snuck out of the room quietly then didn’t return. It was one of the best massages of my life and I didn’t even get her name....
...These can be done sensibly, and in a way that doesn’t compromise policyholder protection, which we as a business are focused on.”...
...How long that lasts, you don’t know.”...
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