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...Apollo made hundreds of millions of dollars from the trade. The air was cold, and the banquet table heaved with starchy Georgian delicacies....
...Venture capital firms, professional investors that had helped get FTX off the ground have had to write down their investments, some of them worth hundreds of millions of dollars, down to a big fat zero....
...When the United Kingdom handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997, Nick Wu was barely five years old....
...“But I am only here because of my hobby.” There were three Chinese in their late fifties like me, in the green vests worn by inmates with chronic illnesses....
...ONLY WW THIS WAS HIS LAST MESSAGE X THIRTY EIGHT DEGREES FIFTY SEVEN MINUTES SIX POINT FIVE SECONDS NORTH SEVENTY SEVEN DEGREES EIGHT MINUTES FORTY FOUR SECONDS WEST X LAYER TWO 3) SLOWLY DESPARATLY SLOWLY...
...(Financial Times) “U.S. prosecutors are seeking more than $13 billion from Bank of America to resolve federal and state investigations of the lender’s sale of bonds backed by home loans in the run-up to...
...I’d left when I was seventeen, in 1974. I didn’t have any family living in the United States....
...Over two continents, five years, thousands of conference calls, and trillions of dollars, euros, and pounds deployed to rescue the world financial system, central bankers would take the primary role in grappling...
...“Three, two, one! Goooooo Mudders!” One thousand, two hundred and eight people are ejaculated – I use the word deliberately – out of the starting pen and start off along the drag strip....
...Thank you, God bless you, and God bless the United States of America....
...MW: Can you imagine what the world would be like if the existing four or five major banks in the United States expanded to the scale which would give the US an aggregate balance sheet of five times US GDP...
...Fifty years later, two months after Lehman Brothers went bust in 2008, one of her “infinity net” paintings, No. 2, was auctioned at Christie’s....
...Today, the five zip codes that occupy the mile of Manhattan between Forty-first and Fifty-ninth streets employ six hundred thousand workers (more than New Hampshire or Maine), who earn on average more than...
...Two hundred years ago, Adam Smith set out the four principles of good taxation – and they remain good principles today. Taxes should be simple, predictable, support work, and they should be fair....
...the United States of America....
...You’ve got a bunch of people here who know these markets so well, and with the right piece of information they can make you – or lose you – hundreds of millions of dollars,” he says....
...Lamido Sanusi: Can you tell me one economy in the last eight, nine months that has not had exchange rate shocks? The United States, the dollar, the pound, the euro, the Russian rouble – none....
...Much more likely, this was meant to be a symbolic act of violence against capitalist America—like the bomb in the parking garage of the World Trade Center eight years earlier....
...With funny characters and bright, detail-packed illustrations, this is a street two- to five-year-olds will want to visit often MUSIC Compiled by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney Let’s Spend the Night Together: Backstage...
...I have been asked this question for the last five, not five, two years. I’ve been in my new job for, what, two months....
...Google’s probably about seven hundred thousand advertisers in the system....
...In America’s southern states, enslaved west Africans were imported in their thousands to tear their fingers raw picking cotton in the searing heat....
...Why would Google, a billion-dollar Silicon Valley giant, take the time to single out a father of two who runs a tiny shoe business in Georgia?...
...Forty thousand units per year in the US. Less than 150 thousand units per year on a worldwide basis. Unless what I see in the press is wrong, it has pretty much been a money loser....
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