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A company that fails to innovate and neglects marketing loses ground to competitors, even under financial strainTheir words
They failed to innovate, and failed to do much on the marketing or communications front.
14 September
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Climate denial is fueled by fossil-fuel financial interest, anti-regulation ideology, and psychological insecurity.Their words
Climate denial, we know from decades of experience, is fueled by an unholy trinity of financial interest (fossil fuel companies determined to keep their profits flowing), ideology (conservatives hostile to any form of regulation) and psychological insecurity (real men burn stuff.)
The MAGA Plot(s) to Destroy Humanitypaulkrugman.substack.com
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Excessive use of financial statecraft, alliances with overseas populists, or prolonged bouts of anti-immigrant hysteria, however, will force even close allies to start thinking about alternatives.
The Dollar Will Be the Last Pillar To Falldanieldrezner.substack.com
11 September
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The value of a degree is in question, as tuition costs have increased in the last few decades while the college premium-the expected benefit from getting a diploma-has flatlined and possibly even declined in the last few years.
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From one piece My Most Contrarian Opinion Right Now 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think the fact that the government took on debt during two crises to help households was a good trade-off.
My Most Contrarian Opinion Right Nowawealthofcommonsense.com
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The United States is not at risk of a financial crisis caused by the size of its government debt.Their words
So my baseline assumption is that people will continue complaining about the trillions of dollars we have in debt but it won’t lead to a financial crisis.
My Most Contrarian Opinion Right Nowawealthofcommonsense.com
24 August
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It is often the financial constraints that make dreams come true.
18 August
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if if DC is in a vacuum isn't hearing anything from the startup ecosystem or even from big tech ecosystem or even from financial services or all these different industries, we can't make the best decisions.
17 August
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In financial documents, it’s clear that SpaceX views commercial launch as a rounding error compared to revenues from its own satellites in space.
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Good economic times tend to produce bad financial ideas, while bad times produce good ones.Their words
My own theory is that good times foster bad financial ideas, and bad times engender good ones.
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Money and MeTheir words
In simple, crystalline prose, Clements shares a lifetime of wisdom on using money to buy happiness, counteracting the behavioral quirks that bedevil our financial decisions, and making family and friends an integral part of our wealth.
12 July
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After the financial deplatforming of Western proles and foreign elites, of Canadian truckers and 145M Russians, it’s clear that digital finance is a weapon of war.
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15 December 2025
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When you're in any kind of creative thing, there is this benefit to not just following the financial incentives and and not trying to kind of like milk every last penny out of it. And to creating scarcity, not just for the sake of the scarcity, but for the sake of the quality.
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Having banked almost everyone does not entitle banks to a fee on every transaction in society.Their words
We have made enormous strides, both from the financial industry and civil society, in banking almost everyone.
From one piece Keyu Jin: China's Economy, Tariffs, Trade, Trump, Communism & Capitalism | Lex Fridman Podcast #477 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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One interesting point is that, in China, you ask the companies to innovate first, and then you regulate after, right? So, that has led to things like P2P platforms. It’s led to lots of kind of financial innovations, some of which has actually been very helpful and good, some of which had been disastrous, but the intention to regulate after the fact is to really not slow down or hinder the innovation. This is a very different approach from Europe. You regulate first, and then companies have to work around that.
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Do you want technological supremacy and radical breakthroughs? Well, yes. If you do, then you have to tolerate that there are going to be some people who are just going to be uncomfortably rich, like in the United States. You can’t say that you detest the financial system for its greed, but then not accept the fact that it is what fuels innovation, right?
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From one piece The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In financial services it is very often the new products that blow up, because they have not yet been through a cycle.Their words
So, if you look at the financial services, very often it's the new products that blow up. It takes a while. They haven't been through a cycle.
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1929, and man, history does rhyme. Too much leverage, too much risk. Everyone thinks it's going to be great. No one thinks it's going to go down a lot.
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In financial services what kills you is leverage and aggressive accounting, not bad luck.Their words
And and the thing about financial services, leverage kills you. Aggressive accounting can kill you, which a lot of companies do do.
7 April 2025
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Efforts to rebuild American industry will fail until global trade and financial imbalances rebalanceTheir words
Until the global economy rebalances, efforts to rebuild American industry are fighting economic gravity.
12 February 2025
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Personal CapitalTheir words
Personal Capital is a financial tracking tool that I started using in mid-2013, and I still use it almost daily to get a snapshot of my "net worth", just as a fun way to remind myself to relax about money and make the most of life.
19 January 2025
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Friedman and Schwartz becomes the playbook for the Federal Reserve. We have lived through this, the financial crisis. The Federal Reserve is ready to loan. Covid, the Federal Reserve does all kinds of new things, because no Federal Reserve chair wants to be in Friedman-Schwartz 2.0 that somebody writes, where they're the bad guy who let the economy meltdown.
8 January 2025
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The United States is not at risk of a financial crisis caused by the size of its government debt.Their words
Stabilizing factors such as the global demand for U.S. dollars and debt denominated in its own currency suggest an era of fiscal dominance in the U.S. that's less dramatic than alarmists predict but more persistent and intractable than optimists hope.
9 December 2024
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Americans are not, as a routine matter, cut off from the financial system for their politics.Their words
This does not happen as a matter of routine in the United States.
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The Big ShortTheir words
the Big Short is a dramatization of a gang of outsiders (and insiders who are presented as outsiders for narrative convenience, a theme Lewis will return to frequently, not always with self-awareness) who correctly predict the mechanism and course of the global financial crisis.
24 September 2024
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Since then, these unconventional monetary policies have increasingly become the dominant force moving asset prices.
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Incentives drive all human behaviour, which makes a management team's incentives central to valuing a company.Their words
So as I like to say, incentives drive all human behavior and that certainly applies in the business world. So understanding the people and what drives them, and what the actual financial and other incentives of a business, are very important part of the analysis for investing in a company.
9 January 2024
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A Short History of Financial EuphoriaTheir words
And this gives me a great opportunity to reference one of my favorite quotations from John Kenneth Galbraith’s wonderful book on market excesses:
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Your Money or Your LifeTheir words
I was never a big fan of thinking about financial independence until I read Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin.
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The Millionaire FastlaneTheir words
While not for most people, I find DeMarco's argument compelling for those that want to take more risk trying their luck in the financial fastlane.
2 March 2023
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But, whether it makes financial sense or not for the individuals involved, they are responding to distorted prices, not scarcity, and the world is not better off from their invention and innovation.
1 June 2022
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Real interest rates have steadily declined in all major economies for more than three decades. This decline was not caused by the Global Financial Crisis or the Covid crisis.
28 May 2019
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Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the WorldTheir words
Bradley Hope and Tom Wright, Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World: Is financial fraud becoming its own sub-genre? This reporting into yet another fraud reminds me of The Spider Network or Bad Blood. What distinguishes this one is the size: it involved billions of dollars.
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Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and LifeTheir words
Alan B. Krueger, Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life: From the economist who revealed the secrets of the minimum wage comes this look at the economics of the music industry. Its disruptions by technology to economics of songwriting and concert tours, the music industry offers important financial lessons. Kreuger, an economic rock star himself (he was former chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers) left us far too soon.
30 January 2019
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Principles for Navigating Big Debt CrisesTheir words
His book Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises is an important read for investors that want to protect themselves from or benefit from recessions and other financial crises.
31 January 2018
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The Ascent of MoneyTheir words
Traces the history of money, the role it’s served over time, and the development of some of the major aspects of our modern financial system.
9 December 2017
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The Misbehavior of MarketsTheir words
Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson are the authors of the influential book The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence. I suggest you read this book for yourself (even though it is not an easy book to read).
6 May 2017
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The Devil’s Financial DictionaryTheir words
Janson Zweig has written a wonderful book entitled The Devil’s Financial Dictionary in the style of Bierce that is both entertaining and educational.
3 July 2013
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In the sense that social games make use of many of the same techniques as gambling games do in order to maximize financial spend and retention, yes.
23 January 2012
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Close to 100% is subject to the results of salary negotiations. Thus, your salary negotiations are probably going to be the most important financial decisions you will ever make. We socialize middle class Americans to go into them unprepared, demotivated, and fearful of success.
17 June 2011
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Put these two characteristics together and you have a key insight; Cities routinely trade near-term cash advantages associated with new growth for long-term financial obligations associated with maintenance of infrastructure.
30 August 2005
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The greater the financial interests and prejudices in a field, the less likely its published findings are to be true.Their words
The greater the financial and other interests and prejudices in a scientific field, the less likely the research findings are to be true.
1 January 1998
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