-‘Apollo Global, the private equity and distressed debt specialist co-founded by Leon Black, is starting a unit to primarily buy investment-grade and high-yield corporate debt from Latin America and Asia‘.
– Fantastic piece by Alex Preston on Michael Lewis’ ‘Flash Boys’.
-Not so new, but still amazing – according to market researcher Euromonitor, Brazil, overtaking Japan as the World’ second largest beauty market, the Forbes take.
-On how Mies van der Rohe was commissioned to design the Seagram Building by (among other reasons) paying a compliment to Le Corbusier, a brilliant article in the London Review of Books by Christopher Turner.
-‘We should honour Pascal, and the long line of pessimistic philosophers to which he belongs, for doing us the incalculably great favour of publicly and elegantly rehearsing the facts of life‘.
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