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Private Equity or More Financial Innovation
'Ey? Do we know any other fucking songs that we can do? The WSJ has a scoop, How One Big Private-Equity Fund Makes Its Numbers Incomprehensible. The headline is a little confusing. Someone could read it thinking one PE firm makes its numbers incomprehensible, but in reality it'
Duck, You Sucker!
Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE After 40 years of financial innovations, it's hard to be shocked by anything in the financial press, but FT has a piece, Why struggling companies are loading up on bitcoin. All you can
On the Abolition of Political Parties -- III
It's been two years since the maenad, Mother Sinead, left the building. Best about the above video, in the second song, "Troy," she stands on her tiptoes every time she sings, an operatic doc marten ballerina. I used the womens for the heavy lifting across this
80 Years Ago
We've learned nothing "We live in a time that has few historical parallels, that there are practical problems, problems of the restructuring of human institutions, of their obsolescence and inadequacy, and problems of the mind and spirit, which if not more difficult than before are different and