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Jan 26, 2018

Why I’m leaving Fusion

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Jul 28, 2015

Aby Rosen wants to kill the Four Seasons

An unforgivable act of cultural vandalism — It’s pretty much impossible to overstate how much of an icon the Seagram Building is. Suffice to say that the Times’s then architecture critic, Herbert Muschamp, deemed it in 1999 to be “the millennium’s most important building”. …

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Aby Rosen wants to kill the Four Seasons
Aby Rosen wants to kill the Four Seasons

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·Feb 20, 2015

Apple just proved that the zero lower bound still exists

Can companies be paid to borrow money? It’s theoretically possible — but it hasn’t happened yet. And the example of Apple in Switzerland suggests that it’s not likely to happen any time soon. A couple of weeks ago, I got into a couple of Twitter fights about a meme which…

Apple

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Apple just proved that the zero lower bound still exists
Apple just proved that the zero lower bound still exists
Apple

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Jan 23, 2015

Davos: Fear ascendant

Davos is the spiritual home of homo economicus, where human behavior can generally be explained in terms of the perpetual war between greed and fear. That’s one reason why the World Economic Forum is such a hot ticket. …

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Davos: Fear ascendant
Davos: Fear ascendant

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Dec 25, 2014

Susan Wojcicki’s biggest challenge

Can she turn YouTube into an ad platform as indispensable as Facebook? Jonathan Mahler has a big profile of YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki, wherein he makes one particular point with great vehemence. Just count the occurrences! 1. “Above all, the quality of most YouTube programming is too unpolished to draw big investments from many blue-chip advertisers.” 2. “Companies expect their ads to be…

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Susan Wojcicki’s biggest challenge
Susan Wojcicki’s biggest challenge

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Published in Bull Market

·Dec 19, 2014

Art: Pre-capitalist conspicuous waste?

Here’s one way that capitalism works: you find a special idea, something truly innovative. Impressed by its genius, you invest, and magic is made. By which I mean, you make lots of money. That description applies to all manner of stock picking, including venture capital. …

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Art: Pre-capitalist conspicuous waste?
Art: Pre-capitalist conspicuous waste?

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Published in Bull Market

·Dec 16, 2014

Whither nanopublishing?

An IM conversation with Stratechery’s Ben Thompson I got a fair amount of pushback from small publishers after I declared that “if you’re not getting 20–30 million unique visitors every month, and don’t aspire to such heights, then you’re basically an economic irrelevance”. Rafat Ali and Ben Thompson led the charge. (That’s Thompson’s image, above, from his…

IMHO

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Whither nanopublishing?
Whither nanopublishing?
IMHO

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Published in Bull Market

·Dec 2, 2014

Uber’s secret weapon: The world

The value of Uber lies increasingly in the global ubiquity of its service It’s crazy-prices season in the markets right now! Apple is worth more than $700 billion, Vice is worth $2.5 billion, and Uber, we’re told, is worth somewhere in $40 billion range. Which is double what it was worth six months ago. Meanwhile, the price of oil continues to plunge, along…

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Uber’s secret weapon: The world
Uber’s secret weapon: The world

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Published in Bull Market

·Nov 14, 2014

Annals of income inequality, Pimco edition

Barry Ritholtz has a blockbuster of a story today, with detailed 2013 pay figures for senior Pimco employees. The top of the food chain, that year, looked something like this*: Bill Gross: $290 million Mohamed El-Erian: $230 million Daniel Ivascyn: $70 million Wendy Cupps: $50 million Douglas Hodge: $45 million Jay Jacobs: $22 million…

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Published in Bull Market

·Nov 11, 2014

Who gets the money spent on share buybacks?

(Hint: It’s not only shareholders.) Andrew Ross Sorkin recently discovered the secret to how companies like IBM keep their per-share earnings rising steadily upwards: share buybacks. …

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Who gets the money spent on share buybacks?
Who gets the money spent on share buybacks?

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