Fin Du Tech: Trading Liquidity Risk for Model Risk
Plus! Moderation; Carbon; Dubai's Interplanetary Advantage; Amazon, Post-Jeff; The Chip Shortage Continues; China's Manufacturing Recovery Continues
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When the world's top economic think tank was located in Redmond, Washington
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Positive Spillovers from the Pandemic
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The Diff Reading List
Read this article →A common request I get is to list books that have influenced The Diff. That’s harder than it sounds, because the most influential books turn into part of my background process; I only realize how much I’ve been citing them when I go back and reread them. With
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Weekend Longreads + Open Thread
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The Privacy Front in the Messaging Wars
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Hedge Funds as Liquidity Providers and the Great Degrossing
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Bubbles and Easy Money: Quality, Not Quantity
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China's Recovery and its Consequences
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Weekend Longreads + Open Thread
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The Road Not Taken: Stripe, Ant, PayTM & Defi
Read this article →Plus! Facebook's Outsourcing Moderation; Amazon's Outsourced SEO; Scarce and Free Resources; Moderating Social (Pt. 3); Business Travel and Veblen; Intel's Semi-Hack
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The Gun Company Payoff Matrix
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