GOLDMAN'S latest golden era can be traced to the rise of Mr. Blankfein, the Brooklyn-born trading genius who took the helm in June 2006, when Henry M. Paulson Jr., a veteran investment banker and adviser to many of the world's biggest companies, left the bank to become the nation's Treasury secretary.
He and the big-baby-faced Mr. Sudeikis were born to trade quips and suffer mutual comic humiliation".
He was born into trade, married into a county family, then leapfrogged over that rank to mingle with the aristocracy.
Dams serve as proxy for a deeply Canadian narrative: a country born by trade and transport on the rivers now literally derives its power from those same rivers.
Indeed, the banking, credit and trading systems that fueled modern capitalism were born in Muslim-led trading systems of the Mediterranean.
Chris Hudson, the Dublin-born trade unionist and now a Presbyterian minister, has been holding talks with the UVF aimed at defusing tensions.
His battles to cut the power of unions, slash social benefits and cut taxes were praised by economists and helped restore growth to the economy, but they were a target for his political rivals, especially for the new Labor Party leader, the Moroccan-born trade union leader Amir Peretz.
I think it's something about the collision between sort of armed, desperate, organized piracy and commercial ship-born trade -- and what happens, the interplay.
Born at a trading station in the Eastern Cape, a fifth-generation descendant of settlers from Britain and Ireland, he was educated at Catholic schools, studied law for five years in Cape Town, and then joined the East London Daily Dispatch as a cub reporter, later acquiring more experience in Britain and Canada before becoming the paper's editor at the age of 31.
He was born into a trading family and grew up in a small village in northern India.
Born of electronic trading and growing investor impatience, the market's new hair-trigger tendency is a characteristic of the times and unfortunately is not going to change.
