In the headquarters of virtually every Chinese company is the wall of fame, where photos of visiting Communist cadre stack up in ascending rank. An inspection tour from a national leader serves as a calling card for private firms and a seal of approval for state enterprises. A reshuffle at the top means that old leaders eventually get taken down a peg or two, creating space for new political bosses. They don't come any higher than Xi Jinping, the newly-promoted general secretary of the party, which[...]
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The billionaire who faked a UCLA degree to land one of his first jobs is adding to his reputation as the school's largest donor.
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You may want to think twice about sharing Christmas dinner with supermodel Petra Nemcova. You could end up chained to the table smeared in honey.
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Billionaire hedge fund guru Ray Dalio has made a living spotting undervalued assets to buy and overvalued ones to sell. Now, with a global deleveraging cycle forcing central bankers around the world to employ quantitative easing in one form or another, most assets are richly valued at a time when the capacity to ease monetary policy has been severely diminished.
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