With some notable exceptions, most bank seats have positive embedded franchise value. One of the big advantages of being a risk taker at a bank and not a prop shop or hedge fund, is the franchise annuity that supports your risk taking, pads the downside, and makes you valuable even when ...
Mend, patch, take down a little here, prop up some tottering nuisance there, fill in gaping chinks with patent legislative cement, coat old facades with bright paint, hide decay beneath a gloze of novelty, titivate, decorate, furbish--and after all your house is not a new one, but a ...
used to prop up the home front by lying about the prowess of the tank and their Aryan crews, like Michael Whitman, who was not nearly as good as the Nazi histories would