Billions

Billions' Creators Flooded With Calls From Wall Streeters

... fund billionaire against a US Attorney with a perfect track record for insider trading convictions. It stars Damian Lewis , who plays a hedge fund billionaire Bobby “Axe” Axelrod, the CEO of Westport, Connecticut-based AXE Capital, and Paul Giamatti , who plays US Attorney Chuck Rhoades. Yahoo Finance sat down with the show’s creators, Brian Koppelman and David Levien, and they said both Wall Streeters and everyday Americans responded well to “Billions.”. “[The feedback] was better than we could have even dreamed. We hoped that we would get like a great response from Wall Street, especially on the East Coast like the Connecticut hedge fund area and Wall Street, but it went even beyond that. Across the country, all different socioeconomic levels, it was great,” Levien said in the video above. The details in the show resonated with the finance community in particular. “You’re always trying to get the little details right. And you really want the community that a show is about to recognize the veracity of it. And so if I show up ...

Global Fisheries’ Sunken Billions

... Allowing fish stocks to bounce back to healthier levels would cut losses and create revenue for long-term growth, while helping fisheries adapt to climate change and meet global demand for seafood. Experience in several countries shows there are multiple ways to arrive at a more sustainable and profitable level of fishing. February 14, 2017 - A new World Bank report, The Sunken Billions Revisited: Progress and Challenges in Global Marine Fisheries , confirms what many intuitively know: overexploitation is not a good strategy to manage a renewable natural resource like fish stocks, for steady profits, reliable jobs and long-term growth. For global fisheries as a whole, about $83 billion were foregone in 2012 , compared to a more optimal scenario, largely because of overfishing. The report, which uses a bio-economic model developed by Professor Ragnar Arnason of the University of Iceland, is an update of a 2009 study published by the World Bank and the FAO, called The Sunken Billions: The Economic Justification for Fisheries Reform. By ...

Your Screener Watch List, February 19-26

... is a fascinating tale: The original Season 5 order was for only thirteen hours, making this batch essentially its own new season (as Winter seasons often are) — and then the show was renewed for a sixth! Quite a reversal of fortune for a spin-off of “The Closer” that’s flown under the radar since 2012. RELATED: Everything’s coming together — and just awful! — in the penultimate ‘Timeless’. And speaking of: Once-megahit “The Blacklist” has been fading into the background basically since the Season 1 finale, when it killed off almost the entirety of the minorities in its cast in pursuit of shocking stakes. Next move: Dividing Season 4 with two finales, segmenting it into three mini-seasons, and handing the 10 p.m. ET/PT timeslot over to spinoff “Blacklist: Redemption” for eight weeks. Thursday, we’ll see a two-hour finale/premiere block — and decide whether the Famke Janssen-centered second show has any legs at all. Also on Thursday: We’ve been impressed enough by the “Nashville” creative renaissance to watch CMT debut a second drama at 10 p.m. ET/PT: “Sun Records,” a historical ...

A Wall Street Performance Coach Who's Consulted On Showtime's 'billions' Outlines 5 Truths Of Human Behavior All Her Clients Must Face

... Think Group , a performance coaching group that specializes in clients on Wall Street. She's also one of the inspirations for Wendy Rhoades , the in-house psychiatrist at the fictional hedge fund at the center of Showtime's hit show "Billions.". Shull isn't a psychiatrist, but established her coaching method on the neuropsychology of unconscious thought, tailored to the needs of investors and traders. It's a combination drawn from her own life: She studied neuropsychology at the University of Chicago and spent 15 years as an equities trader. She started Re Think in 2003 to put her own spin on the niche market of Wall Street performance coaching, a path paved by the late psychiatrist Ari Kiev , who was employed by Steve Cohen's hedge fund SAC Capital. Over the past 13 years, Shull says she has worked with hundreds of clients who include traders, portfolio managers, risk managers, and private equity investors. She explained to Business Insider how her approach is based on what she considers to be the widely misunderstood dynamic between thoughts and emotions, and the role that her clients' past plays into ...

A Wall Street Performance Coach Who's Consulted On Showtime's 'billions' Says Too Many People Have The Same Misconception About Success

... of what industry we are in, have a misconception about how the mind works and thus how we can recover from failure: We think we can will ourselves to success. "The conventional wisdom on feelings and emotions is just wrong," she told Business Insider. Re Think Group founder Denise Shull. Courtesy of Denise Shull. Shull thinks many people have assumptions based on an outdated theory of the "triune brain," which basically says emotions, thoughts, and basic functions are handled separately within the brain; the reality, she says, is that all three of these roles are related in brain mechanics. Too many people, she said, think that "if we have a plan and that we're disciplined then we'll be able to do the things that we want. It doesn't work like that.". It's why Shull has clients in the first place, she explained. The clients know that they are underperforming and they see their mistakes. But no pep talk from a manager or colleague and no Stoic denial of feelings can get them back to their peak. Instead, she ...

Big Little Lies’ Serves Up A Juicy Mystery; ‘billions’ Returns

... daughter as the search for another missing girl intensifies. And the shockwaves of Alice’s return are still felt two years on. “Big Little Lies” (9 p.m., HBO): A stellar cast featuring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley and Laura Dern bolsters this juicy, seven-episode whodunit. Adapted by David E. Kelley from a bestselling novel, it’s set in the tranquil coastal town of Monterey, where alpha females and trophy wives lead seemingly carefree lives in majestic homes. But the glossy picture-perfectionism is shattered when someone ends up dead during a swanky fund-raiser gala. “The Walking Dead” (9 p.m., AMC): In an episode titled “New Best Friends,” Rick and our gutty band of survivors encounter a mysterious collective while searching for a missing Alexandrian. And these are people unlike any they have come across before. “The Paley Center Salutes NBC’s 90 th Anniversary” (9 p.m., NBC): Talk about a proud Peacock. Kelsey Grammer hosts this special, which celebrates nine decades of the network’s ...

Lost Sleep Is Costing Japan's Economy Billions

... hours of time off, and prevents workers from staying later than 10 p.m. Read more: How the government is encouraging more leisure time. Unlike the European Union, which mandates 11 consecutive hours of downtime in every 24 hours, Japan has no laws governing minimum rest periods. Only 2 percent of about 1,700 companies surveyed by the government have minimum daily rest periods, according to a white paper released in October. Source: RAND Europe. The Japanese government has set aside about 400 million yen ($3.5 million) for the next fiscal year for an incentive program to encourage small and medium-sized companies to adopt minimum rest periods. A subsidy of up to 500,000 yen will be available per company to help pay the costs, including revising employment rules, training and updating software that manage work data, according to the labor ministry. While a number of factors are to blame for Japan’s poor productivity per worker, sleep deprivation is costing Japan more than its G-7 peers, according to a five-nation study by RAND Europe, a subsidiary of the research group RAND Corp. Lack of sleep is a drag of up to $138 billion a year ...

Illegals Cost Us Billions

... United States for five years and - for the last six months - in the (same) state where he seeks to be naturalized. In some cases, he need only have lived three years in the United States. “He must be of good moral character and ‘attached to the principles of the Constitution.’ (no, Sharia law doesn’t apply). The law states that an alien is not of good moral character if he is a drunkard, has committed adultery, has more than one wife, makes his living by gambling, has lied to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, has been in jail more than 180 days for any reason during his five years in the United States, or is a convicted murderer.”. * * *. No murder, no foul? That how it reads. Donald Trump is doing what he said he would do. Is there anyone among us who can’t see what $52 billion (with a “b”) could do if we could plow it every year into our public education systems instead of “English as a second language?” I am far from proposing we kick every illegal out of the country but we must give them a formula - with rules and taxes – for them to stay. The “free welfare” line should be cemented shut. Public school education is funded primarily by ...

Big Little Lies'; 'billions'; 'bates Motel'; 'the Blacklist

... late writer and activist Maya Angelou, but this absorbing new "American Masters" documentary uses late-in-life interviews with Angelou herself, as well as archival footage, to present a broad, fascinating portrait of her remarkable life. (8 p.m. PBS/10). "The Detour": The off-kilter family comedy returns for Season 2. (10 p.m. TBS). "Legion": David (Dan Stevens) tries to navigate his own fractured memories to understand his past. (10 p.m. FX). "Sun Records":  Chad Michael Murray stars as Sam Phillips, the trailblazing record producer who worked with such legendary figures as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. (10 p.m. CMT). "The Blacklist: Redemption": Famke Janssen and Ryan Eggold star in a new spinoff of "The Blacklist." (10 p.m. NBC). "Grimm":  Nick, Hank and Wu are on a case, but meanwhile, what's going on with that ancient cloth? (8 p.m. NBC/8). "Infidelity in Suburbia": Hey, I wonder what this TV movie is about? Oh yeah, the title gives it away. A suburban housewife lives to regret that fling with the ...

Billions' Returns, 'paley Center Salutes Nbc

... Robert Bianco , USA TODAY Published 3:03 a.m. ET Feb. 19, 2017 | Updated 17 hours ago. Paul Giamatti as Chuck Rhoades in Showtime's 'Billions.'. (Photo: Jeff Neumann, Showtime). 13 CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN COMMENTEMAILMORE. The Good Fight. CBS, 8 ET/PT. Fans of The Good Wife have two important decisions to make Sunday: Do you want to see an Alicia-less sequel built around Christine Baranski’s Diane Lockhart? And, after the first hour, are you willing to pay to see it? The pilot airs Sunday on CBS and the network’s CBS All Access, but all subsequent episodes will be streamed exclusively, starting with the second, also available Sunday. The Paley Center Salutes NBC’s 90 th Anniversary. NBC, 8 ET/PT. Frasier's Kelsey Grammer hosts this salute to NBC, which began as a radio network in June 1926. Ted Danson, Tina Fey, William Shatner and Jennifer Lopez ...

Billions’ Premiere Recap

... ready to track him for the rest of his life. Those two are on a collision course yet again, and “Risk Management” puts the wheels in motion. Putting the wheels in motion means getting Axe Capital back up and running after Chuck tricked Axelrod into tearing up his office. More than that, though, Axelrod needs to regroup, to find a way forward for the company. Now, with a reliably smarmy Wags — this time full of snorted pills — a gender non-binary intern named Taylor, and a chilly, no nonsense chief of staff named Stephanie by his side, Axe Capital is back in business. No one’s really sure what that means, exactly, as even Axelrod says that the hedge fund industry is dying, but for now everyone’s just happy to be back at work, throwing around insults and hoping that they don’t catch Axelrod’s eye. Meanwhile, Chuck is apparently into karate (or maybe it’s jiu-jitsu) now, though it’s hard to tell if it’s because he’s feeding his dominant side or getting off on the whole being-nearly-choked-out thing. Chuck is a complicated man, you see: a man of many appetites. At the very ...

Malin Akerman Is Billions' Secret Weapon

... kind of attention. "In Westchester, where I'm living, there are a lot of people in the financial world," the Swedish-born 38-year-old says one morning over breakfast in midtown Manhattan. "At Starbucks I'll get a double-take—and maybe a wink and a nod—from the people who watch the show. It's a bit more subdued.". Advertisement - Continue Reading Below. But if the denizens of New York City's bedroom communities are too composed to fawn over a star in their midst, it's not because she isn't killing it. Akerman's Lara is a smart, brash operator who is every bit her brilliant husband's match; her coolly scathing takedowns of those who dare to cross her have become a signature of the series. So when the well-heeled women of Westchester acknowledge her, it's because she's hitting the nail—their nail—on the head. What the Cast of 'Feud' Looks Like in Real Life. And to hear Akerman tell it, the best of Billions is still to come. "The second season is really juicy," she says, a grin spreading across her face. "The first season focused on Paul Giamatti's and Damian Lewis's characters and their battle, and now that's happening for ...