Bonded articles
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His Word Was His Bond
The first shocking thing about Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography of James Bond creator Ian Fleming is that it is over 700 pages long and includes almost another hundred of notes. The second shocking thing is that all of them are necessary.
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The many fathers of James Bond
There is a moment in Nicholas Shakespeare’s new biography of Ian Fleming in which one of the James Bond author’s female friends, not conquests, is quoted as saying that he harbored the ambition to be “the Renaissance ideal, the Complete Man.” Shakespeare has taken the second part of this for the subtitle of his study. […]
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Why does Treasury bond demand dip in times of uncertainty?
The last few times the U.S. Treasury issued bonds, investors were not impressed by the interest rates offered.