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...— Deposit businesses at large vs small banks (NBER) — The REIT pain trade (Lewis Enterprises’ Substack) — More thoughts on that NYTimes article about people getting dumped by their banks (CreditSlips...
...World) — The fiscal Fed (SSRN) — J&J’s strategy of filing bankruptcy to address cancer lawsuits is rejected by another judge (BLaw $) — The research scandal at Stanford is more common than you think (NYTimes...
...(Science) — Consumers pay with card to remember and cash to forget (Stanford Graduate School of Business) — Study of elite college admissions data suggests being very rich is its own qualification (NYTimes...
...(Chicago Fed) — Thinking in unit economics (The Diff) — The daring ruse that exposed China’s campaign to steal American secrets (NYTimes) — Libel tourism (LRB) — Slack’s new ChatGPT bot will talk to...
...Elsewhere on Thursday… — The 22nd annual ranking of the highest-earning hedge fund managers (Institutional Investor) — Noam Chomsky: the false promise of ChatGPT (NYTimes) — Reconsidering the ‘2020s as...
...The Atlantic) — The Waluigi Effect (LessWrong) — Toblerone is barred from using Swiss mountain on its logo (The Irish Times) — Pennsylvania woman who disappeared in 1992 is found alive in Puerto Rico (NYTimes...
...Just ask Sweden (NYTimes) — London’s Canary Wharf is searching for its soul (Bloomberg) — The storm before the calm (Comment is Freed) — SolidGoldMagikarp (LessWrong) — The MP who went from obscurity...
...(NYTimes) — The retreat of the amateur investors (WSJ) — Governor appointments and central bank independence (CEPR.org) — New Yorkers never came ‘flooding back.’ Why did rents go up so much?...
...Financial conditions are tight, but maybe easing (Apricitas Economics) — Palo Alto’s first tech giant was a horse farm (The Atlantic) — How LeBron James outscored Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and all the NBA greats (NYTimes...
...(Vice) — Meta, long an AI leader, tries not to be left out of the boom (NYTimes) — Visual design rules you can safely follow every time (Anthony Hobday) — Are brands protected in the metaverse?...
...(NYTimes $) — Construction doesn’t scale. (Brian Potter) — A few puzzling charts from former Alphavillain Matt Klein....
...The NYTimes currently has more than 200 jobs listed on its site. Spotify is not cutting staff but says it will slow hiring by 25 per cent....
...flat’ rounds (WSJ) Apple will handle lending itself with new pay later service (BBG) Bond investors still buy debt from nations with lower ESG scores than Russia (BBG) Billionaires, Biden and chips (NYTimes...
...Further reading Resignation of Brazil environment minister cheered by activists (FT) The Little Hedge Fund Taking Down Big Oil (NYTimes) Here’s how the EU could tax carbon around the world (Bloomberg)...
...As Jonathan Reiner, a George Washington University professor and CNN commentator put it: “I think it’s a sign of the nation’s return to relative normalcy that the @nytimes is printing this bullshit.”...
...Further Reading ‘Womenomics’ advocate Kathy Matsui debuts venture capital fund (Nikkei) How to Tell if a Company’s Claim of Ethical Practices Is True (NYTimes) MBA graduates take on a green hue as fewer...
...are the judge, jury and executors of the ESG agenda (Impact Alpha) Blackstone makes sustainability push with slew of new hires (Reuters) Wealthy Families Look to Help Family Businesses in the Pandemic (NYTimes...
...Here Is What Investors Need to Know (WSJ) How a Biden Administration Will Boost ESG and Impact Investing (Barron’s) Trump Administration Removes Scientist in Charge of Assessing Climate Change (NYTimes...
...ESG investing is under the microscope as the money rolls in (CNBC) The Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Half Its Corals (NYTimes) Climate change is wreaking havoc on the power grid in ways you never knew (LATimes...
...(NYTimes) News round-up Equivalent of doping?...
...Now he wants to reinvent capitalism (NYTimes) Canada lacks fossil-free investing options (Globe and Mail) Asset managers face “huge reporting challenge” amid sustainability drive (Ignites Europe) Schroders...
...(NYTimes) ‘An economist walks into a brothel’ To learn how to manage risk, one economist went to the experts: sex workers, gamblers, big-wave surfers and horse breeders....
...(NYTimes) Demographic decline Finland has spent decades trying to tackle its demographic time-bomb as it prepares for a rapidly ageing population, but passing reforms on healthcare, social care and the...
...(NYTimes) Here we go again?...
...(NYTimes) News round-up Waste Management hauls in rival Advanced Disposal in $4.9bn deal (FT) AT&T sells back Hulu stake for $1.4bn (FT) Publicis makes biggest purchase with $4.4bn Epsilon cash deal...
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