Hints and tips:
...“I’d like people to feel outraged.” And yet. An old Hollywood maxim insists that under the first question about any film — “What’s it about?” — is always a second: “What’s it really about?”...
...And Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital, that happened....
...Because Citadel (the separate hedge fund) had taken an equity stake in Melvin Capital, or something....
...I’d love to know what was going on in his head while he was working....
...(laughter) Lauren Schuker Blum I’d love him to go see the movie. It’s playing in theatres. Ethan Wu Cliff, You’ll enjoy it, man....
...Melvin Capital, which lost 53 per cent in January, is the highest-profile casualty, but many other funds suffered losses, particularly on bets against stocks they expected to suffer during the pandemic....
...He’d lift me up so I could see over the counter at the betting window, and I’d hand over the notes he’d given me. “Two dollars to win on the No 4, please,” I’d whisper. Whatever I won, I could keep....
...An object I’d never part with is a small Giambologna bronze Venus holding the tools of architecture. I’ve had it for several years and I want to be buried with it....
...When asked where he’d get the $300mn to shore up reserves that support the 20 per cent yield on luna investments, Do Kwon tweeted “Your mom, obviously”....
...I spoke to the British author Melvin Burgess, a winner of the Carnegie Medal who has written 25 novels for children and adults, often dealing with controversial subjects like addiction and underage sex....
...Of funds, fees and fairness Melvin Capital performed one of the fastest U-turns in hedge fund history when it backtracked on controversial plans to start charging clients performance fees again....
...And I’d love to get back to the Amangiri hotel, set right in the Utah desert’s canyons and gorges....
...Or more specifically, did an old post from Jamie Powell help bring about the deathly squeeze on Melvin Capital et al?...
...Investors in Melvin suffered significant losses. It is now our job to earn it back.”...
...Those same tools that allowed QAnon to rally followers for insurrection, and r/WallStreetBets to cripple Melvin Capital, also enabled Hong Kong student protesters to organise against Beijing’s repression...
...Now He’d Like You to Read His Book. (NYT)...
...“You’d better tell us everything, comrade,” he announced with a thin smile. “We have caught your friend Beethoven. He is already talking.”...
...With works such as Deller’s in mind, Jonathan D Katz, an art historian and adviser to the exhibition, argues that mainstream ideas of masculinity have become increasingly “queered”, with stereotyped ideals...
...“A phone would ring and you’d think, ‘Of all the songs, you chose that!’ ” There is a point to these meditations....
...“I’d just like to stay healthy, walk around, I’d like to go back to London . . . ” — and he starts plugging Young Frankenstein again....
...We’d arranged to meet at Sounds of the Universe, a record shop in London’s Soho....
...If I had a business with a 14 per cent success rate, I’d be flipping burgers for a living.” Photograph: Johannes Felsch...
...” … Finally, congratulations to Fiac director Jennifer Flay, who was decorated this week in Paris with the Légion d’Honneur by foreign minister Laurent Fabius....
...Melvin Moran, whose company owns stripper wells in Oklahoma, said it costs thousands of dollars a year to keep one pumping....
...In Exhibition, “D” and “H”, a fiftysomething couple, childless, live in a modernist London house designed by the late architect James Melvin....
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