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...She dropped out of college to look after the family farm — and has the hyper-conservative stance on taxes, Obamacare, etc, that plays well in rural America....
...Peter Thiel’s $15mn was critical to JD Vance’s success in winning an Ohio Senate seat last year. Both Thiel and Vance are admirers of Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s self-styled illiberal prime minister....
...Even the JD Vance version of Appalachia is ‘we’re too lazy to get out of our rut’ . . . He’s so blind to the history.”...
...This, coupled with precision data technologies that allow for extremely precise tracking within supply chains (a textile retailer can now identify the provenance of cotton down to a particular farm or field...
...Based on that maths and the mooted enterprise value, its valuation looks reasonable when compared with forward multiples of Beyond Meat and Vital Farms....
...This week Morgan Stanley earmarked some of it for the shareholders of money manager Eaton Vance. Lex reckoned the $7bn paid — a 40 per cent premium — was a pretty price....
...congressman (New Jersey), New York, July 14 1976 Second row: Joseph Califano, attorney, Washington, DC, June 8 1976; John deButts, chairman, AT&T, New York, May 5 1976; César Chávez, organiser, United Farm...
...Hillbilly Elegy, JD Vance’s Appalachian memoir, helped....
...“It envisions a fundamental change in how America farms,” he said....
...The Cy Vances of the world managed to merge legal practice and public service together, and I’ve not had that....
...I sat down with Eric Stein from Eaton Vance Management today and he says dovish central banks have done the job in reducing the risk of a hard landing: “Markets can move a lot just by clipping the left...
...Non-farm payrolls are regarded as the single most important short-term guide to the direction of the US economy....
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