Right, but 90% of the loss is the soaring stock price making stock options much more lucrative. The "actual" loss is 8bn or so, still hefty but not at all what people are thinking.

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It's the grandparental anecdote my kids are most proud of. Today, pot-bellied white supremacists are marching up the High Street a few yards from where her studio was. We've gone a long way backwards and it's not the wartime generation to blame.

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"Well, if that's their attitude." said mum, "they can get their ballroom lessons elsewhere." (for added context, his was a woman who lost pupils when she became a divorcee).

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The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.

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Put more clearly - an arrogant incompetent old man picked an arrogant incompetent woman for her looks and her extremist views and she proved utterly incapable of delivering. That's how the US is being run right now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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