Twitter Digest: 2012-05-20
Oil companies face off with Facebook: Driving becomes passé http://t.co/DfRunf0f /via @StockJockey -> Pettis: Europe’s depressing prospects http://t.co/66Oyv029 -> Methods for Studying Coincidences http://t.co/btjlqyfU /by @arbesman -> The End of Illness with Dr. David Agus http://t.co/ijuAJd6h -> Will let folks off hook. Here is list of open ski resorts: Whistler, Mammoth, Bachelor, Hood, Sunshine, Crystal...
Everyday mediocre disclosure at Wal-Mart Stores…
This morning, Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) filed its most extensive disclosure yet about questions of corruption and bribery in its Mexico operations, but sadly, that isn’t saying much. What’s most striking about the new disclosure is that it was buried at the bottom of the 8-K that put Wal-Mart’s first-quarter earnings release on record. Somehow, though,...
The Morning Leverage: Red Diamond Unpackages Last Portfolio Company
A roundup of the morning’s private equity-related news.
Twitter Digest: 2012-05-15
Having long ago dated a lovely Dutch girl, I'm really torn on the whole Dutch disease thing – http://t.co/DaRkVxh0 -> Debate today on best cameo ever. It's this: "I loved you in Wall Street". Can there be debate? http://t.co/KjTAZTYS -> I think I'm going to tweet in entish more often. Crazy satisfying. -> The global...
A Big Exit And A New Investment Map Out PE’s Adventures in Energy
Riverstone Holdings exits from oil and gas exploration company Three Rivers Operating Co., while Avista Capital picks up Top-Co Inc., whose products include cement casings used in drillings for various segments of the energy market.
Twitter Digest: 2012-05-14
Ski industry watching as eastern US resort sues insurer over catastrophe policy payout – http://t.co/9D87veC1 -> Can't believe the gold bugs aren't all over the tragic end of Canadian Tire money. http://t.co/zgi20svE -> Apropos my amorality, I tried the psychopath test earlier today & turned out saner than I thought. http://t.co/84VN3XfG / cc @jonronson ->...
Twitter Digest: 2012-05-13
Just showed offspring you can find pi to 7 places at position 50,366,472 of pi. Yes, I'm that geeky. http://t.co/qlnYgMJF -> The Floppy Disk icon means "save", & 14 other icons that don't make sense anymore – http://t.co/ZFSXcsTG /via @techmeme -> Strong stuff in Pettis's latest, incl on China wobbles and a collapse in commodity...
Twitter Digest: 2012-05-12
Dean Potter walks a tightrope over Enshi Grand Canyon – YouTube http://t.co/LbosSSVg -> John Lanchester · Marx at 193 · LRB http://t.co/Pmzp4iqd -> More Wealthy Chinese Said to Seek Exit Options via Investor Visas – http://t.co/A3v6GXMo -> Photo set: 75 Years Since The Hindenburg Disaster – http://t.co/9gkkH2aK -> Neutrinos to Give High-Frequency Traders the Millisecond...
Twitter Digest: 2012-05-10
This August am again moderating in the annual E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year competition. Always fun. -> Affluent men are out-shopping women online, and it's about luxury menswear, not electronics http://t.co/Mowbp6Wx -> Decline of Tiger Woods QotD: "At least he has his health." http://t.co/UGT8Ul5u -> Facebook IPO now being spun: It's oversubscribed! ( http://t.co/42dKRRqo) There's...
Great Britain as a case study: which sticky price?
Steve Waldman was a software developer who became fascinated by finance and started writing about it. He is now a doctoral student in finance at the University of Kentucky. He blogs at Interfluidity. ~~~ Richard Williamson offers a report from the UK. Combining bits via Tyler Cowen and Williamson’s own excellent blog: I think there...
Twitter Digest: 2012-05-07
Tom Vanderbilt: We doth worry too much about the interweb – http://t.co/JuiojEYF -> Yahoo's Scott Thompson to Dan Loeb: Stop taunting me, or I shall write another memo. http://t.co/9UqGrLge -> VMTs, the Rosenhan study, robots, the Late Heavy Bombardment, favelas, chaparral, & Tomáš Berdych: I may be overdoing things in this deck. -> Your kids...
Twitter Digest: 2012-05-06
Dexter: You don't understand. I can't walk… they've tied my shoelaces together. / Topper Harley: A knot. Bastards! -> You know, there aren't nearly enough articles & books worshipping at altar of Mark Zuckerberg. Wait, I have that backwards. -> I hope we eventually get a chance to revel in this piece being dead wrong:...
