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...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
...If this was the competition, no wonder Fred Goodwin got a knighthood while leading Royal Bank of Scotland into collapse. At least TSB is just incompetent....
...“Never has a TV budget been used so imaginatively,” said the series writer Daisy Goodwin. “His version of a fête champêtre put Watteau to shame.”...
...The government’s opposition was “not unprecedented but it is certainly unusual”, says Andrea Murino, a partner at law firm Goodwin Procter who previously worked in the DoJ’s antitrust division....
...At the margin, regulators now will be more likely to approve otherwise problematic mergers using remedies such as the sale of overlapping products or businesses, says Andrea Murino, a partner at Goodwin...
...W&G has proved extremely difficult to sell or float on the stock market. Assume a forced sale for negligible value and that would be another hit....
...himself and Mr Flynn, Mr Mattis said it would be unhealthy if a new administration began with a “tyranny of consensus”, saying a cabinet instead should be a team of rivals, a reference to Doris Kearns Goodwin...
...Teresa Goebel, a partner at law firm Goodwin Procter, said potential acquirers were attracted to the strong performance of hotels as an asset class....
...Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, by Charles W Calomiris and Stephen H Haber, Princeton University Press, RRP£24.95/$35 We get the banking systems we deserve...
...Scotland blue sits waiting for Sir Fred Goodwin....
...… Let God Arise: The War and Rebellion of the Camisards, by W Gregory Monahan, OUP, RRP£75/$115 In 1702 the Protestant Camisards of the remote Cévennes region of southern France rose up against the...
...Evidently, the management – above all chief executive Fred Goodwin – bears immediate responsibility for the grotesque hubris and incompetence displayed but so, too, do the regulators and politicians....
...And George W. Bush’s mishandling of Social Security privatisation and Hurricane Katrina turned him into a premature lame duck....
...W. Goodwin Eshelman, Dallas, TX, US...
...on the arrogant Fred Goodwin’s obsessive leadership....
...(Reuters) - “[W]hen the government released its stimulus, banks begged us to borrow money we didn’t need,” – and now Chinese steel mills are having trouble paying it back....
...He is right, but when George W....
...W. Goodwin Eshelman, Irving, TX, US...
...Remember when George W. Bush took a besuited Gordon Brown for a spin on a golf buggy?...
...In 1926 a local clergyman, the Reverend W Goodwin, persuaded the philanthropist John D Rockefeller Jr to bankroll the restoration of the oldest and most vulnerable buildings in the colonial capital of Williamsburg...
...This comes in spite of shareholder protests about C&W’s private equity-style remuneration scheme, which is supposed to underpin the turnround of the company’s UK business....
...The fact that it should appeal to Obama does – I think – make an interesting contrast with President George W. Bush....
...They were generally silent at C&W. That’s because they are doing well out of C&W’s experiment in incentives and they were consulted about forthcoming changes. That’s no reason for complacency....
...The contrast is sharpest with Mr Obama’s immediate predecessor, George W. Bush....
...Talking of RBS, how Fred Goodwin must be enjoying the whole MPs’ expenses scandal....
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