Diego Segura
@diegosegura
designer, writer, founder. currently obsessed with monetary theory, high finance, corporate law, regretting dropping out of high school, and sudoku. author of a 2018 book, “the dropout manifesto.”
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Both ships have a carrying capacity of 28,000 deadweight tons (DWT) so if they were operating at full capacity, and if they offloaded their full cargo, then 56,000 tons of grain from occupied Ukraine has been transferred to Iran in the last eight weeks alone.
Bellingcat Investigation Team • Russia’s Ghost Ships and the Evolution of a Grain Smuggling Operation - bellingcat
In April, after the Fashion Trust U.S. awards, she estimated her debt to be about $90,000. Her creditors include factories that are starting to get mad, she said, but also people central to her team, like the designer Andrew Curwen, who is owed a few months’ worth of invoices.
Jessica Testa • Should Making It in Fashion Be This Hard?
The good news for Arnault is that he’s raised a highly accomplished group of five children—all of whom are in the business and doing well, by many accounts—from which to choose a successor. There is Delphine , his only daughter, who is 48, a member of the LVMH board and executive committee and the C.E.O. of Christian Dior Couture. Her brother,... See more
Iger’s Buyers & the Arnault Dynasty
"The Fed's own data," observes the August 29 edition of "Early Morning with Dave" (David A. Rosenberg, of course), "show that bank-wide credit card delinquency rates have gone from 1.84% a year ago to 2.43% in the first quarter of 2023 and now to 2.77% in the second quarter. This is also before we have even seen the onset of higher unemployment--is... See more
should absolutely reach out to them re: Terms
A $16 Billion Wall Street Lawsuit for the Ages
puck.news
this seems like it could be on the level of Caesar's Palace Coup, Unscripted, or Barbarians at the Gate as far as story goes, though i'll have to learn more about it
Lemonade had set a world record by paying one New Yorker’s claim for his stolen Canada Goose parka in three seconds—the time it took Lemonade’s claims bot to run 18 antifraud algorithms and send bank instructions to deposit $729 in the man’s account.
Jeff Kauflin • First, Fire All The Brokers: How Lemonade, A Millennial-Loved Fintech Unicorn, Is Disrupting The Insurance Business
“I think any work that celebrates women indiscriminately, solely on the merit of their womanhood, is condescending and a cultural liability.”
Adam Lehrer • Who’s Afraid of Elena Velez?
Under the impressive leadership of Jonathan Karp , S&S generated revenue of $1.2 billion in the 12 months ending March 31 and operating income of $255 million, a margin of 21 percent. No wonder KKR wants the business.
Are You There, Aryeh? It’s Me, Shari…
media and High Finance
publishing ain't so bad after all