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Plus! Credit Spreads; LNG and Climate; Insurance and Intermediation; The Ruble; Commutes
FinanceSynchrony Financial: A Bank Growth Investors Could Learn to Love
Plus! Unstablecoins; Oil and Gas; Transitory at Last (At Least a Bit); Glorious Food; Meanwhile, in China
FinanceCars Manufacture the Modern Middle Class
Plus! Not Enough Housing; Durable Network Effects; VPN Integration; Reserve Currency Problems; Movies
FinanceHow to Make Another Reserve Currency
Plus! Russia and Crypto; Winning and Losing the Global Oil Auction; Supply Constraints; EVs, AVs, and Financial Engineering; When The "E" in "ESG" Stands for "Energy"
FinanceOne-Shot Sanctions
Plus! Hacks; Digital Prosthetics and Mixed Media; Energy Independence; The New Map; Order Frequency
FinanceTarget: Amazoning Backwards
Plus! No Neutral Parties; Manual Moderation; Better Ad Buying; Exporting Inflation to Japan
FinanceThe Idea-Swapping/Login-Swapping Credit System
Plus! Information Sharing; Hackers and Trust; Banking Divergence; Quitting Coal; Real-Time Data; Privacy Tradeoffs
FinanceDaloopa: Data-to-Information Accelerant
Plus! Covid Zero vs Ο-Variant; Covid Hormesis; Life on Planet Baumol; The Right Amount of Fraud; Selective Disclosure
TechFacebook and the Dogfood Problem
Plus! Currency; Market Pricing; Substitution; Bitcoin's Long March: Tax Edition; First-Party Data
TechThe Man Whose Bank of England Broke
Plus! Value Traps and GAARP Traps; China and the Tax Question; Building on a Government API; No Theranos Overhang; Roof-Backed Securities
FinanceThe Many Arbitrages of Forbes
Plus! Rogue Arm; Non-Dollar; The Apple Tax and Casual Games; Divvying Up Windfall Profits; Privacy Tradeoffs
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