The popularity of social gathering holes, which lure fans more familiar with Jack Daniel's than Jack Nicklaus, has given rise to others, like the 17th at the Honda Classic, the center of a thriving social scene that has spread to include a sports pub, a wine garden, a bar sponsored by Oakley, and a 2,000-square-foot 2,000-square-foot 2,000-square-foot
(The chance of a random group of holes gathering so tightly is about 1 in 5000, Muno notes).
As I write this, investors around the world are anxiously awaiting Ben Bernanke's speech at the annual Fed gathering at Jackson Hole, Wyo.
At the Jackson Hole gathering of central bankers in August, two academics gushed that "he has a legitimate claim to being the greatest central banker who ever lived".
Draghi was due to speak at the annual economic policymaking elite gathering at Jackson Hole in Wyoming on Saturday before an audience of global central bankers.
The hotel, on the site now occupied by the Brevoort apartment house, was a watering hole, gathering spot and trysting place where bohemian personages lived, ate and caroused.
When the Federal Reserve chairman speaks at an annual gathering in Jackson Hole, Wyo., this Friday, markets will be searching for something, anything, that indicates whether more stimulus is on the way.
Fed chair Janet Yellen is not expected to attend the Jackson Hole gathering, raising the prospect that other Fed officials may be more tight-lipped about the likelihood of the first rate increase in almost a decade, some analysts said.
The annual Jackson Hole gathering of central bankers and headline economists is taking on the subprime crisis.One the deepest and clearest thinkers on recent financial turmoil, professor Charles Calomiris of Columbia Business School, is presenting a paper today on "What's Old, What's New, and What's Next".
It is tempting to view this year's Jackson Hole gathering of central bankers as the moment where we move from an age of quantitative easing (QE) to that quantitative tightening (QT), which sees a smooth reduction of gilt buying from the world's key central banks.
No one knows how many sandhogs are, at any given moment, working beneath the streets of New York City, but one morning this winter half a dozen men could be spotted gathering around a hole on the northwest corner of Tenth Avenue and Thirtieth Street.
