Hints and tips:
...We haven’t mentioned the B-word yet. Bonds....
...You know there’s a lot of trust involved, there’s a lot of essentially taking people at their word that the money that they’ve acquired is legitimate....
...Andrew Edgecliffe-JohnsonI think the positive is that we’re increasingly measuring companies by their actions rather than their words....
...Michael O’SullivanYou cannot go around like Al Capone. You can, but you’ll only last so long. Miles JohnsonThat’s next time on Hot Money....
...You cannot go around like Al Capone. You can, but you’ll only last so long....
...the period’s abundance and creative frenzy in The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, a generous, even overwhelming show, that combines exuberant breadth with a focus on the title’s last two words...
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...As Wachowiak et al correctly note, the recent pressures militating in favour of greater cooperation (Ukraine, a second Trump presidency, fiscal constraints), “have not, to date, proven sufficient to overcome...
...Biden’s reference to Egypt’s leader Abdel Fatah al-Sisi as “president of Mexico” did not help his case....
...In 1937 the writer began what would have been his first theatrical play, to be called Human Wishes, and based on the life of Samuel Johnson....
...The broadcaster’s outgoing chair — outgoing in both senses of the word — lives in Aberystwyth on Wales’s west coast....
...A campaign is on to prevent Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, vice-president of the United Arab Emirates, buying a major piece of the British media....
...“Strength, fragility and romance” are three words that encapsulate his work as a designer. His craft is very much concerned with the human hand and heart....
...You never get to see a GP, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. All of this stuff. But they are very, very, very keen to talk about the fact that inflation has come down, right?...
...We had major assassinations, cities on fire, two failed presidencies [Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon].”...
...be laid with warm words....
...In other words, they help authoritarian states around the world to finance aims that can be both repressive and repugnant.”...
...The recent rise of the Faangs, et al, looks like a knee-jerk reaction to the fall in rates and rate expectations that followed the banking mess (the 10-year yield has fallen from 4-ish per cent to 3.6-ish...
...Listening to yourself reading your own words is unsettling, to put it mildly....
...By now Heseltine, wearing his trademark blue V-neck under a dark suit, is tucking into his soup....
...Et tu Brutus? Or in Boris Johnson’s case, Et pretty much everyone — Rishi, Sajid, even Priti for goodness sake (non-aficionados of UK politics should Google them)....
...His father’s company — then called the Al-Zahawi Group, but now known as Iraq Projects Business Development (IPBD) — quickly procured a contract to provide cleaning, logistics and support services to the...
...In the case outlined by Haddad et al, Goltz said investors were buying a stock “even though the price has gone up”, so demand is more inelastic and “you can have additional volatility from shifts in demand...
...“I was just overwhelmed by the beauty of the wording — concise, choice of words, structure. It was absolutely brilliant,” he told the Financial Times. “But the math is so horrible....
...Last word of today goes to the IFS’ Johnson: “We are . . . reaping the costs of a long-term failure to grow the economy, the effects of population ageing, and high levels of past borrowing....
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