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I’ve been Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and I have a doctorate in physical chemistry. Why is the fashion company CEO seated next to me?

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The President is writing his own obituary this morning.

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Leader of the Free World realizes she’s standing next to Borat.

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This is great. #BirdieSanders

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Forget Silicon Valley. EVERY businessperson or investor should read and try to comprehend these words from Obama. h/t @nacin

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Astonishing. New York City is the safest city on this list. I wonder how many residents in and around these secondary and tertiary cities implicitly project their own elevated death rates onto the biggest city in the country and think it must be worse.

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Michael Flynn’s official portrait as National Security Advisor, now hanging in intelligence agency offices across the country tonight.

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Donald Trump Jr. is 39 years old.

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#BREAKING : White House defends Trump dictating his son's Russia statement as "something any father would do"

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There is no fucking way that any sensible financial stability scheme should guarantee bank deposits up to $10 million. That is rich people/institutional money, which by definition should know better. Welcome to Massive Moral Hazard Land, capital Sand Hill Road. 🙄

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From Debtwire, Sep 2022:

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It's the pinnacle of private equity brain to take Instant Pot, one of the the simplest, most no-drama businesses of all time, and somehow turn it into a $500 million bankruptcy

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@conorsen Apparently extraterrestrials are only interested in English speaking cultures. 🧐

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Ouch

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Damn, Norway.

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“Yes, I have met the man.”

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The Secretary of State of the United States of America just stated on national TV that the President does not speak for the nation.

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“Dow Joans.” But hey, he has a point. Can Congress authorize a very big cannon in the current appropriations bill?

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We are (I am?) discovering that the functioning of our democracy depends much more on behavioral norms than legal constraints. God help us.

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Not really. Fake news is engineered to satisfy our priors. Real news is awkward, incomplete, and non-confirmatory.

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The quality of this photograph is unreal. Not being a photographer, I can’t explain it, but it is amazing. @MeredithFrost

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“That rug really tied the indictment together.”

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“I don’t have any problem with going to Europe, but I prefer the United States, and I prefer seeing the regular parts of the United States. I prefer the RV parks. I prefer the Walmart parking lots to the beaches and things like that.” – Clarence Thomas, $5,000 French burgundy fan

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4 years

This is clever, and could be replicated by many merchants.

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Ever dream of having Capitol Hill Books all to yourself? Now you can. Email us to reserve a one hour time slot. info @capitolhillbooks -dc.com

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@peter_tl @_F_B_G_ @modestproposal1 Let’s just hope the same crew hasn’t illustrated Moby Dick. 😳

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Amazing. Guy hears SVB may be in trouble, so he does 2 things: 1) Immediately withdraws all company + personal money, thereby directly contributing to a run on the bank. 2) BUYS SHARES in SVB, because “I figure this is a temporary issue caused mainly by people panicking.” WTF??

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Silicon Valley Bank was the main bank for two of our companies, my personal savings, and my mortgage. This is how things unfolded for us: Between 2013 and 2023, all good. Thursday, 9 AM: in one chat with 200+ tech founders (most in the Bay Area), questions about SVB start to

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A real royalist would own a shirt that fits properly in the collar.

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Markets distill the biases, opinions, & convictions of elites. Structurally less able to predict populist movements.

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#Brexit Worrisome Fact #43 : The polls were more accurate than the markets. That's new, and scary.

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FINALLY. Colorado starts producing properly sized boulders.

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A large boulder the size of a large boulder is blocking the southbound lane Hwy 145 mm28 in Stoner Creek area of Montezuma County. Expect delays. #largeboulder

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cc @MeredithFrost

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This is real image (15 vertical shots) of the Uyuni salt flat. The Salar de Uyuni is so extraordinarily flat that after it rains it becomes the world’s largest mirror spanning over 130 km. Credit Jheison Huerta

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He who is not liberal by 20 has no heart. He who is not conservative by 30 has no brain. He who does not avoid all labels by 50 has no soul.

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“There are some stupid mistakes that only very smart people make, and one of them is the notion that a sensible argument seriously presented can compete with a really good piece of theatre.”

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Hahaha. “Sometimes, moving to Florida is a very bad look. It says you don’t have enough cash to live where you want. Forget the fancy status symbols: being rich enough to stay in New York and pay all the taxes is the new way to show off.”

Why I’m sitting out the tax haven tango

My New York neighbours are relocating to Florida. Should I follow them?

www.ft.com

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52 years ago today we landed the first human beings on the Moon. The fact that anyone gives a shit that a billionaire is taking a short taxi ride to the edge of the atmosphere today is pretty pathetic.

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Sure, boys, let’s pull out a big dividend recap and almost double leverage just as sales are slowing. What could go wrong? ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯”

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1) It wasn’t a conspiracy, it was a sales pitch. 2) Investors weren’t convinced and said so firmly. No securities were sold. 3) No laws were broken because no crime took place. 4) It may not seem like it, but the underwriting process worked exactly as it was supposed to.

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Counterpoint: Work at a firm that pays you well and doesn’t abuse you, and then use your money and free time to seek meaning and emotional satisfaction outside of work. Time-tested solution.

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People everywhere — not just Millennials — want to work for organizations whose missions resonate with them intellectually and emotionally.

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Hahahahahahahahahaha 😂

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Bitcoin has not lost value. One bitcoin is still one bitcoin. This is just a temporary adjustment in the exchange rate to obsolete fiat currencies. Calm down.

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Take it from me, an experienced investment banker: this is a death spiral. There will be no IPO this year.

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@peter_tl @_F_B_G_ @modestproposal1 “Jill, this is brilliant. Where did you get a picture of Moby’s, um, member?” “Easy, I just sexted him pretending to be Natalie Portman.” “Classic.”

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Twitter is a mirror disguised as a window. What do you see?

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Got some exposure in your portfolio companies there, bud? Worried they might come knocking on your door to make payroll? Worried you won’t be able to afford a private jet to Burning Man this year? 🤔

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YOU SHOULD BE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED RIGHT NOW — THAT IS THE PROPER REACTION TO A BANK RUN & CONTAGION @POTUS & @SecYellen MUST GET ON TV TOMORROW AND GUARANTEE ALL DEPOSITS UP TO $10M OR THIS WILL SPIRAL INTO CHAOS

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It seems we are raising our children all wrong. Very interesting argument: http://t.co/vzeiUIGUwC

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Twitter, I’d like to report an assassination.

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@intelligencer I hope Kelly and Pence are using 😡🍨🍨’s vacation to create an underground replica of the Oval Office in which to imprison him on his return.

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“Sometimes I’m embarrassed to be associated with this discipline. But the worst part is that most of my colleagues think this situation perfectly okay.” ⁦ @skdh ⁩ reports on the current state of the discipline of physics.

From the vault: Who's killing physics? | Cosmos Weekly Taster

The renowned German author, theoretical physicist and Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies thinks she’s found the root of evil: quantum mechanics.

cosmosmagazine.com

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If you have an ounce of humanity in you, this is really worth your time to read. via ⁦ @radleybalko ⁩

"Nobody gives a shit"

Part one of a freewheeling interview with Andrew Sowards, a recently retired, longtime defense investigator who worked on death penalty cases

radleybalko.substack.com

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“Here’s the part of the 2016 story that will be hardest to explain after it’s… over: Trump did not deceive anyone.”

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As someone here said, Trump is a poor man’s idea of a rich man, a weak man’s idea of a strong man, and a stupid man’s idea of a smart man.

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Trump simply cannot ignore attacks on his person. This is a key psychological vulnerability which his opponents should exploit relentlessly.

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I guess Michael Lewis was always just one train wreck away from professional embarrassment.

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The Uber model is everywhere: using the internet to connect infrequent, consumers of ad hoc, spot market services with fragmented suppliers.

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So much of politics now seems to be people trying to make their own neurosis and misery universal. That is not politics. It’s narcissism.

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Want to fix our hyper-partisan politics? Eliminate existing incentives for politicians to pander to extremes. Ranked choice voting is one simple solution.

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I remember when people on #FinTwit laughed at @ritholtz and @ReformedBroker for having little AUM. 4 1/2 years later, they are approaching $900 mm. Kudos and continued good luck.

Strategy

I couldn't have written a post like this even a few years ago...

thereformedbroker.com

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Wanna know what saved NYC after 9/11? New Yorkers. Our culture. Not George Bush. Not Rudy Giuliani. Us. You can’t own that. That’s not yours

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“‘SNCF was very angry. They told [California] they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system.’ Morocco’s bullet train started service in 2018.”

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Nothing like that picture, that’s for sure.

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What's life really like as a junior in an investment bank?

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted publicly about the Red Hen incident because she knew it would confirm the biases of her tribe. Do not lose sight of the material point: Sarah Huckabee Sanders is an asshole.

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The problem with the democratization of serious debate which the internet’s enabled, frankly, is that most people just aren’t capable of it.

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Wow, good for Pluto. It’s really cleaned up its act and developed impressive life focus in 24 years.

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Many people would prefer to have bad sex with a model than great sex with a normal person. This also explains the success of Goldman Sachs.

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Debbie Harry's isolated vocal track on Blondie hit 'Call Me' cc ⁦ @MeredithFrost ⁩

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“In 2001, following the accounting scandals at Enron and other companies, a publication called CFO Magazine quietly abandoned its annual Excellence Awards, because winners from each of the previous three years had gone to prison.”

Life After White-Collar Crime

Every week, fallen executives come together, seeking sympathy and a second act.

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Oh for fucks sake, you idiots. Me, for one. Virtually all of my male high school peers, for another. Please remand any male children of yours to foster care immediately. You are not worthy to be mothers of young men.

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Republican women defend Kavanaugh: "What boy hasn’t done this in high school?"

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Winter sunset. cc @MeredithFrost

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Excellent. Enjoy bankruptcy, idiot.

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BOEING CEO SAYS IF THE GOVT WANTS A STAKE IN THE COMPANY, HE DOESN'T WANT IT'S HELP

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If you buy this theory (I find it plausible), the current rush into Computer Science and STEM majors is likely to set up a similar scenario. I wonder what 100,000 underemployed asocial libertarian elites will do? 🧐 By @Noahpinion :

The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis

Did America produce too many frustrated college graduates in the 2000s and 2010s?

www.noahpinion.blog

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In fact, I don't there is any part of human endeavor where succeeding spectacularly is not associated with deep psychological imbalance.

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Hoo boy. When the House of Saud shuts down the Hajj, you know you’ve got a problem. 😳

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Coronavirus latest: Saudi Arabia suspends entry for pilgrims

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Police forces all across America have completely lost whatever respect and authority they may have held over the past few weeks. Every single one of these brutal bullies has acted out in full, conscious view of video cameras. They must be ended.

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Wow. Someone forgot to tell the U.S. Women’s team that we already avenged Pearl Harbor. #USAvJPN

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Congratulations to #DanielCraig for his Hollywood Walk of Fame star and for successfully escaping the Bond franchise. Just be careful, Daniel, to use your newfound artistic freedom responsibly.

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Locking my account for the first time ever. Not accepting new followers unless I follow you. Continuing to evaluate whether I stay or not. If I leave, I’ll keep the handle as a placeholder.

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The real difficulty is that 70+ million Americans voted for a wildly incompetent incumbent even after they had 3 1/2 years of proof of his incompetence and malevolence. There is a deep sickness in this country that won’t dissipate with this election’s conclusion.

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“In 2017 Kentucky’s coal-mining museum installed solar panels on its roof in order to save $10,000 a year on electric costs.” 🤨

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@Jake_Kanter As an ignorant Yank who has little knowledge of and no right to venture an opinion on the value or validity of the British monarchy, it does seem to me Elizabeth has done a pretty good job over the years in her role.

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Here’s to the back of a challenging year and a challenging decade. I must say that many of you on this website have made it better for me. I hope I have contributed a little of that as well. May your 2020 and 2020s be challenging and fulfilling in a positive way. Happy New Year.

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🤔🙄😕🇬🇧

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FYI, the entire market regulatory structure in the US is based on the premise of saving individual, unsophisticated investors from being chewed up and spit out by schemers. I don’t think it anticipated the noobs eagerly ganging up to jump into the meat grinder themselves.

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to my friends and followers on this platform. May 2017 be a better year for all of us.

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This is fine.

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As a start up entrepreneur, nothing would give me greater confidence than seeing my venture capital backer tweeting in hysterical ALL CAPS to his 700,000 followers about shit he cannot even comprehend. 🤨

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People who think you can replicate the best parts of large cities with broadband never appreciated what large cities have to offer in the first place. People who are using the pandemic as an excuse to move to the suburbs were looking for an excuse before it hit.

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cc @MeredithFrost

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Photo of the day. Incredible shot, incredible world. [via @SFFDPIO ]

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The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is what the internet could be. Can it be replicated in other fields?

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If you can’t be alone with a woman without harassing her, yes, follow this rule. But that’s not because the rule is generally good, it’s because you’re particularly bad.

Brit Hume

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Mike Pence’s policy of avoiding being alone with women other than his wife looking better every day, though widely mocked when it first became known.

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Here’s a potential unintended consequence of the widespread adoption of smartphones in society: a truly lawful police force.

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Silicon Valley never learns: Just because you can identify a market inefficiency doesn’t mean you can solve it profitably at acceptable risk

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46-year-old banker laments his wasted life and broken dreams. On Reddit: http://t.co/mFmFUpQgeQ via @MadameButcher

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November 8, 2016: Choose Wisely, America

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Lots of people are dunking on @mikiebarb for putting the original of this up and saying “In a word… The South.” But guess what, sports fans, the area in the circle is definitively at least as rural and subject to food deserts as the South.

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The NY Times story on Trump’s taxes was six days ago.

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And let me tell you this additional thing: Most of these clowns became successful through sheer luck, so their tiresome entitlement is self-delusional bullshit. #ClientService

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Pepsi PR: “Well, we sure fucked that up.” United PR: “Hold my beer.” Sean Spicer: “Hold my meth pipe.”

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