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...In one of the show’s opening images, from Carrie Mae Weems’s “The Rivington Place Portfolio” (2006-7), the artist haunts the British Museum portico in a spectral black dress....
...Spaht led Thoma’s 2018 takeover of mortgage software specialist Ellie Mae for $3.7bn....
...In an interview, Vera Daves de Sousa said Angola’s economy, which has shrunk by nearly 10 per cent since 2016, would grow 0.2 this year, rising to 2.4 per cent in 2022, underpinned by economic reform and...
...(This combination also afforded Thurman a self-referential moment when, while presenting the award for Best Actor with her Pulp Fiction co-stars Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta, she and Travolta briefly...
...“It’s like Reverend Jesse Jackson always said, baseball became a better sport after Jackie Robinson started to play.”...
...For faced with entrenched racism, Vera, Lottie and Anna Mae are all forced to debase themselves to get ahead....
...But when I ask her more, she says: “I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, he left his physical imprint on a lot of us.”...
...Jackson Lamb is a wonderful creation. What books are currently on your bedside table?...
...US-based visual artists Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Carrie Mae Weems and Njideka Akunyili Crosby are all MacArthur “Geniuses”....
...Jackson Hole will be an important moment for markets if “Draghi or [Fed governor Janet] Yellen want to use it to send a message” about monetary policy, he said....
...In the US, the status of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the community reinvestment act, were not determined by the Fed, which did not have the power to regulate the rating agencies....
...I admired Leanne Stojmenov’s Cinderella, elegant in drama and step, as, too, Kevin Jackson’s Prince, a portrait drawn with a fine Ingres-like line....
...First, some of the risk takers, notably the government-backed housing lenders, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, were “basically untouchable,” as Bernanke puts it....
...The US securitisation market is underpinned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, government-backed mortgage companies....
...Separately, Barclays on Thursday agreed to pay $280m to resolve a US lawsuit brought by the Financial Housing Finance Agency, the conservator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....
...Hawkins and (a very pregnant) Olivia Wilde Alexander McQueen: Julia Roberts Givenchy: Julia Roberts Lanvin: Meryl Streep Elie Saab: Angeline Jolie Chanel: Jesscia Biel Giambattista Valli: Penelope Cruz Vera...
...“Assets only recently branded as toxic are being heralded as potential saviours,” says Andrew Jackson, chief investment officer at Cairn Capital....
...just before the law passed, Mr Summers also called for “new measures” to make markets understand that no bank “is too big to fail”, and warned about the systemic risk from housing finance agencies Fannie Mae...
...Angus Jackson’s production of Michelle Magorian’s second world war novel Goodnight Mister Tom is one such revelation....
...The Fed’s plan is to buy mortgage-backed securities of the government-sponsored agencies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, at a rate of $40bn a month....
...Waiting would let the Fed see payrolls data for August and September, formally update its economic forecasts, and use Jackson Hole to clarify where it stands....
...Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, two government-policy-directed entities, lowered their standards for conforming loans so that more borrowers could qualify....
...In a speech at the Federal Reserve’s annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole on Saturday, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund said policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic...
...Wise ministers now assume that everyone is keeping a diary to eke out their pension (“Keep a diary and it’ll someday keep you” – Mae West), and are appropriately cautious....
...Despite the steps that had been taken to support Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, their condition continued to worsen....
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