Line Go Up: Book Review of “The Cold Start Problem,” by Andrew Chen
I was recently hanging out with a buddy who, responding to my standby joke about how we must all be
Read More
Finance
Mackinac 2024 Speakers: “The Rent Is Too Damn High. We Need More Supply.”
At the Davos of the Midwest, a.k.a. Mackinac Policy Conference 2024, policymakers and other stakeholders put their heads together to figure out how we can make housing more affordable. It’s one of the first times that such a powerful and visible group of people have discussed the issue in Michigan.
Read More
Court on Elon Musk’s Compensation Package: “Yeah, No.”
Is it fair to pay the CEO $50 billion? One investor thought not, and one of the most important judges in the country in the realm of corporate law agreed.
Read More
The Demise of US Steel: Tariffs Can’t Fix Bad Management.
Sadly, but perhaps not surprisingly, US Steel is about to go the way of so many other once-great American corporations that have been acquired by foreign companies.
Read More
Resuming Student Loan Repayment May Well Break The Economy. The GOP Is Cool With That.
The GOP would rather tank the economy than hand Biden a win on student loan forgiveness, something SCOTUS is expected to rule on as early as this week.
Read More
Republicans Hate ESG. What That Is, And Why It Matters.
Republicans have a new target: the woke agenda of “creating better market information.” It’s not a good look for a party that is really grasping at straws, but it also strains credulity to imagine that companies shouldn’t do things that they think are in their best interest.
Read More
The Collapse Of SVB Is A Big Deal. It’s Not a Catastrophic Big Deal.
The tech world and the finance world are both abuzz this week over the nearly overnight collapse of Silicon Valley
Read More
You’ve Heard Of Socially Responsible Investing. Now Get Ready For… Socially Irresponsible Investing?!
A new conservative investment fund seeks to invest in “socially conservative” products, identifying a market of interested, “un-woke” investors. The only problem? Well, turns out the most profitable companies are all actually pretty socially liberal.
Read More“Pity The Downtrodden Hedge Fund Manager,” And Other Tales
Twitter had some feelings when hedge fund managers complained that Redditors had manipulated the price of stocks they shorted.
Read MoreShort Circuits: What’s Going On With GameStop Stock
GameStop stock blew up. Should you care? No, not really. But you shouldn’t buy it.
Read More