Alongside Charles on the new stamp collection are Kevin Keegan, Bobby Charlton, Bryan Robson, John Barnes, Gordon Banks, Jimmy Greaves, Denis Law, Dave Mackay, Bobby Moore and George Best.
Added to the likes of billionaire investors George Soros and John Paulson, the central banks of emerging markets including China, India, and even the oil producers, are retail investors.
Fans can bid on hundreds of items in an online auction, including attending a NASCAR race with WWE superstar John Cena, meeting Tyra Banks on the set of "America's Next Top Model, " or pitching entrepreneurial ideas to Mark Cuban.
The dean of global investing, Sir John Templeton, used investments in banks as proxies for gaining exposure to undervalued stock markets around the world.
"It might just be stocks are beaten down and there are some investors who want to be in equities and don't want to be in banks, " said John Ventre, fund manager at Skandia Investment Group.
Never mind that "independent" houses (those that weren't also handling investment banking for the companies they follow) were as prone to issuing buy ratings in the 1997-to-2000 run-up as were analysts at lead investment banks, says Purdue professor John McConnell.
While the banks might need five years to get these assets off their balance sheets, John Osbon, founder of Osbon Capital Management, foresees the American taxpayer being on the hook for said banks and assets for a decade.
The commission, chaired by Sir John Vickers, suggests splitting the country's banks into two parts, dividing their retail- and commercial-banking bits from the racier investment and wholesale sorts.
Americans are responding: According to polling by John Zogby, 9% of adults have taken business away from big banks over the last year in protest of the multitrillion-dollar taxpayer bailout.
John Osbon, founder of Osbon Capital Management, says not to overlook the banks that didn't do so well on the recent stress tests.
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"She did not want to see it overdeveloped, " says John Dearden, a former Johns Hopkins official who negotiated the deal with Ms. Banks.
Other candidates for the post included Bank deputy governor Paul Tucker, FSA chairman Lord Turner, Sir John Vickers, who led the government's recent review into breaking up the banks, and Santander bank's UK chairman Lord Burns.
Walt Disney animated feature, a Star Wars entry, and the offhand Disney-specific franchise entry (think Pirates of the Caribbean 5, coming summer 2015) means that Disney will have an annual slate of almost predetermined blockbusters without even breaking a sweat, which in turn will give them the financial safety net to withstand the periodic John Carter and make occasional non-tent poles like the upcoming Saving Mr. Banks.
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Retail banks are facing the same challenges travel agencies confronted a decade ago, says John Schlesinger, chief enterprise architect at Temenos, a core banking software company.
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John Leonard, an analyst at Salomon Smith Barney, envisages a continuing stand-off between banks across national borders until the last pairing-up is done at home.
John Varley of Barclays, whose bank has made profits and spurned government capital, acknowledged the banks' share of blame for seeking high returns from structured financial products.
Not to be outdone in pointy-headedness, the Treasury committee hears from the chairman of the Independent Commission on Banking Sir John Vickers about its proposals to insulate high risk banking activities from "utility" high street banks.
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To many of the biggest multinational banks around the world, "Asian banks don't hold the attraction that opportunities closer to home do, " says John Hobson, regional bank analyst at CS First Boston in Hong Kong.
Partly to address that, it took what now looks like a disastrous punt (though other investment banks have done likewise) in creating a hedge-fund venture in 2005 run by John Costas, the former head of investment banking.
In something of the manner of John Neff, who delivered high returns for years at Vanguard Windsor by owning out-of-favor banks and carmakers, Thompson has amassed an exceptional long-term record with his unloved stocks.
In his latest shareholder letter, Tocqueville Gold Fund chieftain John Hathaway bases that forecast on continued negative real interest rates: That is, as long as central banks push interest rates below the rate of inflation, gold performs well.
All of which explains what some would see as the most significant watering down by the chancellor of the recommendations to reform banks that George Osborne received last year from the Independent Commission on Banking, chaired by Sir John Vickers.
George Bush had an army of evangelicals working for him in 2004. and the question is, even if people will hold their nose and vote for John McCain - if there are conservatives, how many of them will come out and man the phone banks and actually work their tails off for him.
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