Hints and tips:
...A love of bobbing up and down on an ostentatious yacht? Tick....
...This week the Italian car brand announced it will design yachts that can compete in international sailing competitions....
...Boeing announced in May that it would trade its headquarters in a tower in Chicago’s West Loop neighbourhood for its campus outside of Washington, DC....
...Ari occasionally wades into hot topics, writing an FT editorial that called out rapper Kanye West for antisemitic comments....
...One might presume that the sanctions preventing Russian tycoons from maintaining their fortunes in the west could motivate a “palace coup” against the Kremlin....
...(FT) East-West divide HSBC’s destiny is in China, though you wouldn’t know that by the composition of its 14-person board. Only two members are Chinese....
...He’s about to do a short Easter stint sailing his 55-footer, Florence of Dart, off north-west Spain. But the real adventure begins in November when he departs for the Arc transatlantic yacht race....
...They also invest in property — especially in their home base of the US west coast — and traditional stocks and shares....
...Electoral margins in some industrial states, such as Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana, could be tight....
...Michael Woronoff, the head of Proskauer Rose’s corporate and securities practice on the west coast, is leaving the law firm to join rival Kirkland & Ellis in Los Angeles....
...While society’s ills have tipped other writers into pessimism, Giridharadas is notable for his optimism about the west....
...He also owns a yacht he bought from former Citigroup chief executive Sandy Weill and a palatial home in East Hampton....
...Other releases showed an upward revision to the final December reading of the University of Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment....
...Charles (1907-78) and Ray (1912-88) meet at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan in the early 1940s, marry and travel west....
...ZF of Germany agreed to acquire Michigan-based TRW Automotive in September for $11.7bn, while Visteon last month sold its stake in a South Korean in-car heating joint venture for $3.6bn....
...Large, square photos of a towering redwood forest, a yacht at sunset and a carefully crafted cup of coffee adorn the walls of Kevin Systrom’s office....
...You could argue that many of the people who stay at pads such as this are the kind who arrive by helicopter or private yacht....
...It took him about a decade from launching a property-management firm while a student at the University of Michigan to overtake what the old man had achieved financially....
...In a world where the economic centre of gravity is shifting from west to east, the continued faith in casinos, and other forms of gaming, epitomises a certain bankruptcy of thinking among America’s policy...
...If it’s the latter, then this massive fund of houses, “condo hotels” and yachts might suit you best....
...Silver Bait LLC produces fishing worms by the millions. But that’s only the beginning of what it produces....
...“Owning a Manhattan townhouse is right up there with the private jet and the yacht,” says Cave....
...John Abbott is a 60-year-old artist who lives in a traditional stone cottage on an island near Bantry Bay in County Cork, south-west Ireland....
...That allowed him to buy the yacht and the plane, which “made Air Force One [the US president’s aircraft] look like a no-frills airline”, according to a friend....
...FT: How would you assess the climate, the attitude towards philanthropy, on the West Coast, as compared to the East Coast? EB: Well, the West Coast, especially Los Angeles, it’s a new city....
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