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...Brought up as Anna Mae Bullock, she was given the stage name Tina by the R&B bandleader Ike Turner, who recruited her after hearing her sing in a St Louis nightclub in 1957....
...The story of Tina Turner has substance by the barrowload: Anna Mae Bullock’s neglected childhood in Nutbush, Tennessee . . . her teenage move to St Louis . . ....
...In July, Wells Fargo chief executive Timothy Sloan referred to cyclical “overcapacity” in the mortgage industry, and the possibility of rationalisation in the coming quarters....
...Tim Sloan, Wells Fargo’s chief executive, said CRE underwriting standards had been deteriorating “for some time”....
...The author is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution...
...Instead of retaining mortgages on its books, the privately owned company sells them on to the government guarantors Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae....
...In effect, we have built up clearing houses as an officially sanctioned form of credit protection, along the lines of AIG or state-backed mortgage finance lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...“As interest rates rose during the year, mortgage refi volume waned as expected,” Tim Sloan, chief financial officer of the bank told analysts on Tuesday....
...Tim Sloan, chief financial officer of Wells Fargo, noted that his bank had also been built via “a lot of acquisitions”, which had taught Wells’ management about the importance of due diligence....
...Wells Fargo CFO Timothy Sloan has also said that refinancings have helped boost the bank’s market share. It’s a funny old world when a government programme appears to help the big get bigger....
...An article in MIT Sloan Management Review corroborates this, noting how Ikea’s standard jobs questionnaire plays down skills, academic credentials or experience to focus on values and beliefs....
...Ms Palin could emulate Tina Fey, the actress who helped make her (in)famous, but that might require her to learn her lines, not a known talent....
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