Less than a year after Morgan Stanley got its $10 billion TARP loan (and two and a half months after the money was : “I remember coming home, or coming to the apartment in the city, and saying to Christy, that, you know, ‘There’s a chance I could lose this firm.’ And then 30 seconds Read More
In the 1990’s, Irish businessman Tony White made a fortune by figuring out what other people wanted to buy. Abacus Direct, the vast consumer-data company he founded, was purchased for $1.7 billion by an Internet company shortly before the decade ended. That left Mr. White with enough money to buy pretty much whatever he wanted. Read More
In the 1990’s, Irish businessman Tony White made a fortune by figuring out what other people wanted to buy. Abacus Direct, the vast consumer-data company he founded, was purchased for $1.7 billion by an Internet company shortly before the decade ended. That left Mr. White with enough money to buy pretty much whatever he wanted. Read More
If it were the custom to divide painters, as we do authors, into poets and writers of prose, then we should have to characterize the English painter George Stubbs (1724-1806), whose work is currently the subject of an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Conn., as one of the most Read More
