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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While digging down the Thomas Gold rabbit hole, we found our attention diverted to a puzzling series of events unfolding in the helium market that is as surprising as it is troubling. It is a story of an important and militarily sensitive commodity that almost everybody takes for granted, a decades-old piece of obscure legislation that is slowly... See more
Doomberg • The Other Strategic Reserve
For Coach, the biggest brand in the Tapestry portfolio, the show—a display of oversized leather blazers and pointy-toe jelly flats embossed all over with Cs, with J.Lo in the front row—is a customer acquisition cost.
Could they do it another way? Perhaps. But it’s part of the formula devised by creative director Stuart Vevers , who moved to the... See more
Could they do it another way? Perhaps. But it’s part of the formula devised by creative director Stuart Vevers , who moved to the... See more
September Issues
A decade later, though, the PS1, while still a top seller, had fallen out of fashion, and the designers had yet to have another blockbuster product or a stable of items that sold reliably year after year.
The Nine Lives of Proenza Schouler
Free banking in the simplest sense is just free-market banking. In pure free banking1, there is no central bank, there are no legal tender laws, and the government would in general not privilege any particular currency
“I have to tell you, I was the only person there whose name I didn’t know,” Heilpern says.
Michael Schulman • The Legacy of Interview Magazine and a Trip to 1988
a portion of that monthly payment you’re making is actually embedded interest because the investors bought it at a discount. So there’s an effective interest component up to this. Pipe actually has thought of this and they have a really nice little report inside their marketplace that shows you the discount or component of interest. And your... See more
Scott Orn • Accounting for startup financing from Pipe
To be clear, Buffett is the largest economic shareholder in Paramount but Shari still controls nearly 80 percent of the voting stock
Are You There, Aryeh? It’s Me, Shari…
Shari only owns 10% of the company, and that 10% first-class stock has 80% of the voting shares, which is wild. Back in the L*s M**nves days, they tried a “nuclear option” with Marty Lipton to provide a dividend to the second-class shares that didn't give money but instead granted votes, which would have the Redstone shares powerless. It never went through.
Climate change is costing us dearly, and it’s only getting worse. I feel so intensely frustrated, largely because the preventative actions we could have taken were not mysterious to us: invest in renewables, transition from greenhouse gas-emitting energy generation, and put a price on carbon. We’re finally making some progress on green energy,... See more
America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due
that last part is a *key* argument — and it places the climate discussion back in economic terms and not in left-wing alarmist terms, which is how we can get everyone on board for Massive solutions