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Epstein summons in the next person cooling his heels in the ante- room. It’s a young man named Brock Pierce, a former child actor, and dotcom high flyer—a principle in a gaming company called DEN, a notorious dotcom burnout, with its own sex scandal—who is now a leading investor...

… “death by a thousand cuts” as it contends with a range of unfolding political forces unleashed by a combination of the market economy, social liberalisation and foreign influence. No—Xi Jinping intends for the party to defy the trend-line of Western history, to see off Fukuyama’...

…istical models. This method can often have uncanny predictive powers. But the problem is it doesn’t scale very well—the market, having discerned a pattern of successful investing, quickly copies and discounts the advantages of the strategy, . Epstein’s effort was to identify, dis...

…es was in full swing at Spago Beverly Hills. The Wolf of Wall Street’s Marty Scorsese was huddled in a booth with Brad, marketing maven Megan Colligan, producer Irwin Winkler, and the ageless Don Rickles. Jonah Hill’s buddy Leonardo DiCaprio had just left, as he was getting a col...

… -Did you meet with Larry Page and Sergey Brin during your 2002 trip to the TED conference? Did they describe a plan to market Google bras with the o's as cups? Did they believe Google was a good company name because men would be drawn to the oo? HOUSE OVERSIGHT 026349 -Soon afte...

“Why we camp out here? I find that question as mysterious as you do,” says Weingarten. Shortly after Weingarten leaves, Epstein tells me that Eric Holder will resign by the end of the week—which he does. Epstein summons in the next person cooling his heels in the ante- room. It...

Paul Keating explains as never before e BY:PAUL KELLY, EDITOR-AT-LARGE ° From:The Australian e October 22, 2011 12:00AM WITH his panoramic view of world affairs sharper than ever, Paul Keating blames the current global crisis on blunders by European and US leaders and warns tha...

money you put into it. Whereas, I could go—TI mean I don’t look that great now—but I could go from being seen as a figure of some probity and some intelligence to being a figure of much less intelligence and much less probity...” “Well,” says Pierce in seeming dramatic understat...

…escribed, in what I could not be sure was a put-on or entrepreneurial brainstorm, a brand extension in which they would market a line of Google bras with the Os as convenient cups. In fact, the name Google, they said, was invented out of the belief that men would focus on a word...

…acilitates that conversation without guilt or worry, and, in fact, with great glee and enthusiasm. It is not just the remarkable flow of valuable information before it hits the New York Times (including, while I sat here, notice of the resignation of a cabinet secretary a week be...

…wouldn’t decide where I was going until I got there.” At the same time, he was developing a perception, or, at least a market differentiation: the hyper wealthy had different problems than the very wealthy. Dealing with a billion dollars was different from dealing with $100 mill...

… -Did you meet with Larry Page and Sergey Brin during your 2002 trip to the TED conference? Did they describe a plan to market HOUSE OVERSIGHT 026352 Google bras with the o's as cups? Did they believe Google was a good company name because men would be drawn to the oo? -Soon afte...

seen as a figure of some probity and some intelligence to being a figure of much less intelligence and much less probity...” “Well,” says Pierce in seeming dramatic understatement, “you are going to have some low quality characters playing early in the space...” That evening, i...

…ty. "It can't be the party of part of the old society. Labor must be the party of those people who gained from the pro- market growth economy that we created. Labor must be open to the influences of this middle class, to people on higher incomes. And I don't think it is." It is,...

…istical models. This method can often have uncanny predictive powers. But the problem is it doesn’t scale very well—the market, having discerned a pattern of successful investing, quickly copies and discounts the advantage. Epstein’s effort was to identify a dozen or so promising...