Hints and tips:
...Luckily, efforts to ram crypto’s square peg into the round hole of the Securities Act of 1933 (et al) have proceeded slowly to date. But there is danger this mistaken project will accelerate now....
...But of late, the partnership with West, now known as Ye, has become more of a liability....
...products, bold ideas and a zesty essence....
...(Patrick Temple-West) On Wednesday, January 13 at 10am ET, Gillian Tett will be moderating Edelman’s global virtual unveiling of the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer....
...al), which improves SONG’s negotiating position. . . . . uh, great?...
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...George W Bush missed red flags in the build-up to al-Qaeda’s Twin Towers attacks. But he was only once explicitly warned of a possible plot a few weeks before it happened....
...“The fact that [David] Cameron, [Jeremy] Heywood (the most powerful civil servant) et al did not understand many basic features of how the world works is why I and a few others gambled on the referendum,...
...A lot of people would probably complain about breach of trust and the like — but complaining is to self-identify as a tightfisted wrong'un....
...No one in Washington much cared. No one had a problem with meaningful tax reform focused on simplification....
...Here’s a para from the article:The Washington, D.C....
...The ONS estimates the value of land and assets-over-land to be over £5tn compared to a GDP of c£2tn....
...Bank of Canada’s official numbers show that non-banks — trusts, credit unions and other financial institutions — held C$313bn of residential mortgage credit in December....
...I have seen no data to show how Facebook and Twitter et al advance happiness or social cohesion....
...E-John v Johnnie John, and its variants, is a powerful name in retailing, writes Kate Burgess....
...Sensible sentences from Citi’s Buiter et al on China’s valuation shock (with our emphasis): This decision by the PBOC is a significant event, even if its implications and motivations are not yet fully clear...
...Summers et al adjusted for this and still found that the government’s borrowing added a lot more supply to the market than the Fed brought onto its balance sheet....
...You see, Bill Gross et al sell bonds, via bond funds. But what they have really been selling for the last decade is a sort of investment intellectualism....
...Consider this from Standard Chartered’s Stephen Green et al: [Wealth Management Products'] yields tend to move with interbank rates, since WMP funds reflect the banks’ marginal cost of funds....
...Today’s poor youth are trying to navigate a system that is unfair and disempowering. The lesson many take away is to trust no one....
...Our venue is Al Tiramisu, a well-hidden Italian restaurant close to Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. It’s a public holiday, which accounts for its quietness....
...A driver is stuck in a jam in Washington. A man knocks on his window: “Terrorists have kidnapped Congress, and they’re asking for $100m otherwise they’ll burn them with gasoline,” the man says....
...Trust....
...For the first time in two decades, Osama bin Laden is not a threat to this country. Most of al-Qaeda’s top lieutenants have been defeated....
...But the complexity of a large financial system, combined with ‘local thinking’ of the sort which Shleifer et al have described, can result in assessments of risks which are, in aggregate, impossible given...
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