Hints and tips:
...as land use and zoning....
...They got a great deal for doing nothing. But that’s water under the bridge.” Dismissing my suggestion of a glass of wine — “very rarely do I drink wine....
...Robert ArmstrongCigna — very boring company. They basically are a commercial health insurer in the United States. You work for a big company....
...Unhedged: Turning back to banking for a second, it seems to me that some of the big banks are doing OK, despite all the regulation. Bank of America and JPMorgan are reporting quite good profits....
...I use this as an excuse to approach the table and introduce myself to the man formerly known as America’s Mayor. “How are you feeling about Trump’s campaign?” I ask....
...Robert Armstrong(Laughter) Well, you know. Jonathan GuthrieWhat’s your observation, having been in this business almost as long as me?...
...The man renowned as America’s “condo king” is at last vacating his throne, handing over the family business to his sons, Jon Paul, 39, and Nick, 35....
...That’s a key part of the argument being made in a new petition for trade relief and state support of the US shipbuilding industry under a so-called section 301 case filed by the United Steelworkers union...
...After Andreessen Horowitz invested in Anduril in 2019, the mood changed fast. When he wrote on his website, “I believe in the United States of America. I believe in a strong national defence....
...What I hear from a lot of European companies and I hear from European governments as well, is look, the United States is pushing us. We need to get our act together....
...It marks an extraordinary falling out between Florida’s largest private employer and its governor, whose party has long enjoyed a reputation as an unquestioning ally of business in the state....
...Another is to establish a trust in the US holding Argentine assets, such as shares in state energy group YPF, to use as collateral to back new bonds....
...And over in the United States, one lawyer’s starting to dig deeper into the Kinahan money machine in the Middle East. Eric MontalvoDaniel Kinahan is living in Dubai, they’re having a party in Dubai....
...Particularly useful when visibility is low, eg in rain, fog or snow Optical cameras Useful for detecting and differentiating the colour of things such as traffic lights, construction zones and emergency...
...We continue to have the second lowest level of government debt in the G7, lower than Japan, France or the United States....
...Nathan McCarley-O’Neill, a soft-spoken native of Northern Ireland and head of bars for the Major Food Group (he oversees drinks for 35 restaurants worldwide), walked me through the construction of The Grill...
...Robert Armstrong (Laughter) My side is that cryptocurrencies are not investment securities and they should not be regulated by financial regulators in the United States or anywhere else. Ethan Wu OK....
...Michael Stott So the state-controlled oil company Petrobras has applied for permission to do some exploratory drilling off the coast of the Amazon....
...Because the assets and liabilities were split into two separate companies, the one with the assets is allowed to just continue on, sort of business as usual....
...The risk for America is that its overconfidence grows, fed by the “no alternative” story . . ....
...to go start repaying the Chinese as a first order of business....
...For developers, the chunkier down payment may also reduce the need to borrow since they can use part of the money to fund construction....
...And this increases your desire to hang on, as illustrated by a new two-year contract for Bob Iger, “interim” chief executive of Disney....
...San Francisco’s city budget this year is $14bn — almost twice the budget for the entire state of New Hampshire — for about 810,000 residents....
...None of these contracts create value for us,” says Guy Robert Lukama, head of the DRC’s state-owned mining company Gécamines....
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