Hints and tips:
...“A lot of people want to feel like they’re getting the best bang for their buck,” said Thomas at Kearney Consumer Institute....
...Additional reporting by Nian Liu in Beijing, Qianer Liu in Hong Kong and Thomas Hale in Shanghai...
...Thomas’s wife Jess (Alexandra Roach), a nurse, doesn’t get it either: “Isn’t this what people are always like in business?”...
...The always sharp Stephen Roach seems to agree with my take that we are headed for a post-dollar world....
...Best of the rest Aggressive abroad, Putin plays a cautious economic game at home — Ruchir Sharma in the New York Times China as seen from a glass house — Stephen Roach for Project Syndicate The moment...
...This kind of progress is taken as given by Thomas Piketty and other egalitarians....
...Ed Miliband, the Labour Party leader, and Stephen Roach, the non-executive chairman of Morgan Stanley in Asia, were among the panellists debating how to remodel capitalism when they were interrupted by about...
...The fund management industry should work towards educating intermediaries on how to use currency funds within portfolios, says Dale Thomas, fund manager at Insight Investment....
...I am sure we would not have a credit crisis to the extent that we are seeing today if the banking system had been really tested five to six years ago,” says Thomas Hess, chief economist at Swiss Re....
...Insight, Stephen Roach: Markets have breathed a sigh of relief that the worst in this crisis may be over, says Morgan Stanley’s Roach....
...Richard Berner, Morgan Stanley’s leading economic light after Stephen Roach departed Asia-wards, has ever so gently tipped the bank’s outlook over into recession territory....
...Back in February and March, Stephen Roach at Morgan Stanley was insistent that the subprime problem would not be easily contained....
...Not so, retorts the venerable Stephen Roach, Morgan Stanley’s chief economist....
...Meanwhile, poor Mr Roach seems to have descended into new depths of despair. “A new level of complacency has set in....
...The example of Thomas Birch, an 18th-century biographer, historian, editor and author of A General Dictionary, Historical and Critical, suggests that is not always a safe assumption....
...“This has been the fiercest argument I have had in Davos,” said Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley....
...Thomas Mann’s ghost would feel right at home. “Imagine,” said Ralph Toledano, chief executive of Chloe, in his keynote address, “a man who gained three times his body weight in a year....
...Thomas”, his best-known composition, is a calypso, a form noted more for its lyrical content than its musical sophistication....
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