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...h; Mediterranean Europeans are culturally different from Alpine Europeans, those from the Balkans, Slavics, Scandinavians and so on. A market which might wo ...ely remodel London. Robert Hooke and Sir Christopher Wren were among those who submitted plans, Wren’s influenced by Paris’ wide avenues hubbing from

...financial asset]]”s, which means certain financings would be out of scope. Those of instruments that don’t pay a cashflow or have a stated maturity as suc ...use, in America, there is rather hairy “[[risk retention rule]]” for those who would sponsor an “[[asset-backed security]]”. To qualify, the [[ABS]] n

...had to co-opt thousands of extra lawyers to work inside their businesses, who could keep the crops and fields of lawyers happy, throwing out fresh instru ...sts for the pleasure and enrichment of those saintly white-shoed attorneys who grace the serene frescoes overhead.

...oducts do, and sought wise counsel. In this case, a Mr [[Robin Potts QC]], who in 1997 opined that a credit derivative should not be characterised as an i

...comfort you might draw from what is being said is taken away by the person who is saying it. :'''Agent (''as [[agent]]'')''': Who?

*'''[[The noble believer]]''': The credible person who is duped and who unwittingly enables the fraud, The prison of belief. ...e is the person inside the organisation who can stand up to the visionary? Who is Lear’s Fool?

One of those people with an [[MBA]] who is profoundly deaf to protest “that is easier said than done”, largely

...utions like school, university, work, the internet and, well, people on it who witter on about “lived experiences” all the time. Yes: like the JC. ...ial in nature to anyone minded to listen. The converse is just as true for those [[Inclined to|inclined]] to [[Humblebraggadocio|humblebrag]] about [[indust

...seek the, well [[metis]], of one who holds themselves out as an expert and who is, for a fee, prepared to say. A lawyer. Having a kind solicitor sort all The client may not be realistic in that aspiration. An in-house lawyer may know perfectly well it is a fruitless exercise but will do it to get her salespe

...allen from grace. John Milton Friedman has been cast from paradise<ref>I ''know'' he wasn’t called John. </ref>. The narrative has changed. In a time whi ...ything the corporation does, putting the [[professional-managerial class]] who run the company beyond the reproach of the one stakeholder group with the n

...uits of the contract|fruits]], is one that appears not to have occurred to those under the age of thirty. ...ilosophy, [[post modernism]] and the [[Critical theory|critical theories]] who would now write this stale colonial tradition from history. Look, knock you

...to the [[JC]] so I thought you lovely hardy band of readers might like to know what’s about to happen and why. ...ki/>s: specialist contract negotiators, students, market practitioners and those needing knowhow management in their actual line of work — will require lo

In a scrape — at any rate, one whose outcome depended on who had the better command of [[pedantry]] — here is a fellow you would be no

...to employees, contractors, outsourced service-providers but, as far as we know, modernist management orthodoxy has not yet updated the concept to include ...ger can really hold the business back. Alison recalls working with someone who had 13 people reporting directly to her. “She had to do 13 [[Performance

...t the door of management and not poor benighted [[subject matter expert]]s who are expected to make sense of the [[Rube Goldberg machine]] that management Those investigating accidents are motivated in ways which will favour the “[[me

...he “weeds” — is the mark of the unpromotable laggard. The [[JC]] is one of those. ...you want to progress in this firm, you must ''get out of the weeds''. You know, and ''manage''.”

Those unintended consequences included heightened paranoia amongst deal counsel w ...ce requires the person ''signing'' the contract to be removed from the one who ''negotiated'' it.

...n’s Counsel’s opinion on a complex derivatives. ''What the hell would a QC know about it?'' ''Trillions'' of dollars of derivatives are traded every year, ...n your drafting for the benefit of judges in priority to the men and women who are party to it, you are out of your mind. But for the very same reason, th

...email sent from an unmonitored account]] — they’re a cheap shot at someone who can’t hit back — and more to the point they are a failure in [[design]] Most signs — other those amounting to ''labels'' or imparting ''directions'' — don’t work very w

{{a|repack|}}Commercial [[Legal eagle|legal eagles]] know a lot about ''taking'' security and ''granting'' [[Security interest|securi ...by their clients and by their own [[senior relationship management|SRM]]s, who had been shouted at by their clients, for being transparently useless when