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Only days after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was signed   New York developer Steven Witkoff  announced that  he  is now surging ahead with  his  plans to complete the Fontainebleau resort in Las Vegas  Bloomberg Politics reported.
âNow  weâre not going to be patient â  Witkoff  told Bloomberg. âWeâve basically pressed the âgoâ button to do everything necessary to finish design on the project and take down a construction loan.â
 The developer  added that as soon as he saw the bill was going to become law  he was ready to ease off the brakes. He quickly launched an effort to restart his financing process for the estimated $3 billion he needs to finish the project.
 Witkoff  also noted that an important benefit in the tax reform law that allows full and immediate expensing of capital investments spurred him to immediate action. He also insisted to Bloomberg that the new tax law will spark great economic activity in the U.S.
âYou can just feel it â  Witkoff  said. âYou can feel the pent-up fervor thatâs happening out there  and  it  hasnât even seeped through the system yet. And Iâm not a Republican ideologue  for Godâs sake.â
The Fontainebleau was about 70 percent complete when billionaire Carl Icahn bought the stalled project out of bankruptcy in 2010. The site was idle until last year when  Witkoff  began toying with jumping in to finish the building. But  until now  going was slow with an uncertain economy and a slow commercial property market dogging the project.
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Steven Witkoff


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MANCHESTER  England (Reuters) - British finance minister Philip Hammond defended capitalism as the only route to prosperity on Monday  in an attempt to counter the opposition Labour Partyâs increasingly popular vision for a more centrally-controlled economy.
In a speech to the ruling Conservative Party that contained only two new policy announcements   Hammond  also said that the governmentâs immediate task was to deal with the uncertainty for citizens and businesses resulting from Brexit.
 Hammond   who was sidelined by May during the election campaign  said last weekâs Labour Party conference showed it wanted to impose on Britain  the worldâs fifth largest economy  the âsocialist fantasyâ seen in Cuba  Venezuela or Zimbabwe.
âWe saw Labour in the raw  exposed for what it has sadly become: a party taken hostage by a clique of hard-left extremist infiltrators  people who despise Britainâs values and talk down our country â  Hammond  told Conservative Party activists.
Seeking to put the economy center-stage in the Conservativesâ pitch to voters   Hammond  said Britain could only hope to experience rising living standards âby harnessing the power of the market economyâ.
With opinion polls showing Labour gaining support   Hammond  aims to convince voters that Corbyn would make them poorer.
Labourâs leaders   he  said  âopenly proclaim their ambition to demolish our successful modern market economy and replace it with a back-to-the-future socialist fantasy with hundreds of billions of extra debt for the next generation to pay.â
âOur economy is not broken: It is fundamentally strong â  Hammond  said  while also accepting that a lack of progress in talks on Britainâs divorce settlement with the European Union and uncertainty over future ties were weighing on businesses.
âThe process of negotiating our exit from the EU has created uncertainty so investment has slowed as businesses wait for clarity â  Hammond  said.
 Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond  speaks at the Conservative Party's conference in Manchester  Britain October 2  2017. REUTERS/PHIL NOBLE
Business groups welcomed Hammondâs defense of free markets  but said the government needed to do much more.
 Hammond  pledged 400 million pounds ($535 million) of additional road and rail spending and 10 billion pounds of funding to help young Britons get on the property ladder.
âWe must never deny or dismiss the underlying concerns that the election articulated: we must listen to them and we must respond â  Hammond  said  adding that the government should offer âpragmatic solutionsâ to improve ordinary peopleâs lives.
But with Brexit on the horizon  a slowing economy and the Bank of England hinting that interest rates could rise  May and  Hammond  have limited room for fiscal maneuver.
Labour said Hammondâs speech on Monday was disappointing.
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Hammond


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Former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown couldn’t please everyone. In her timely new book  “The Vanity Fair Diaries ” she recalls a run-in with gossip legend Liz Smith  who died over the weekend at 94.
According to  Brown   Smith’s girlfriend Iris Love submitted a story about her trip up the Nile to Vanity Fair in 1985  shortly after  Brown  had started her new job.
“Trouble is  picture’s great  copy not  ” Brown  recalled. According to  Brown   31 at the time  she decided to run the piece anyway  but only after a heavy edit that she knew would not go over well with Smith. As expected  Smith “got on the horn to give me the full Texan bawl-out.”
In her new book  Tina Brown recounts a run-in with the late gossip great Liz Smith  seen here at an event in March. (Gary Gershoff/WireImage)
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Tina Brown