including, clockwise from top left, the passing of 1920s notables such as President Calvin Coolidge and two very different theatre impresarios—David Belasco and Flo Ziegfeld; White also recalled the much-publicized 1925 wedding of Abby Rockefeller to David Milton, the throngs of ...
Leo Lewis – Financial Times A Japanese company with more than two centuries of history in ceramic art and fine porcelain tableware has emerged as a surprise beneficiary of the rise of generative AI, electric vehicles and the technology sector’s intensifying war against heat. Shares of Mar...
Leo Lewis and Kana Inagaki – Financial Times A hacking attack at Japan’s largest IT company is spilling across the country’s corporate sector, with cyber security experts warning that it could trigger a surge in attempts by organised criminal gangs to extort hefty ransoms from companies and ...
Historian Frederick Lewis Allen, who would go on to write the definitive history of the 1920s in his bestselling Only Yesterday (1931), offered some tongue-in-cheek advice on how the average American could contribute to renewed economic prosperity. An excerpt: Howard Brubaker also finished the ...
In fact, Michael Lewis is already working on a book. Today, I’m breaking down the latest and weirdest developments surrounding Sam Bankman-Fried and his company – and sharing details from a conversation I had with one FTX user who’s been left in a six-figure hole. /jlne.ws/3CaHs94...
This week, Manhattan federal judge Lewis Kaplan approved a request by Sam Bankman-Fried’s lawyers at Cohen & Gresser to allow their client access to a list of “preapproved websites” as he awaits his fate on house arrest. We’re honoured to be included on the list, among a h...
Leo Lewis and Katie Martin – Financial Times Japan’s stocks reached their highest level in 33 years on Tuesday, propelled by growing hopes of higher governance standards and more serious regard for shareholders after decades of lacklustre returns. /jlne.ws/3IaUUNp Environmental, Social and Corpo...
What hadn’t occurred to them was that nearly 25 years-worth of infill had also created a new strip of land that extended from 79th to 96th street, land that Moses envisioned as an expansion of Riverside Park (and the abrupt end of the West Side yacht club scene). “The Talk of ...
anew when viewed through the vantage of a stranger in a strange land. “Good science fiction is humanity, moved into a different milieu,” he says. “Great stories are great stories. You put human beings on a spaceship or a deserted planet, and we’ve got another way to see ourselves....
Leo Lewis of the Financial Times has an interesting piece that asks the question “Is Fomo the new greed when it comes to investing?” FOMO is of course the fear of missing out. Markets used to be moved by fear and greed, so this would suggest markets are moved by fear of losing and...