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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Think of Margiela in Paris, that was a Golden Age in fashion because you could show in an alleyway, and there's kids around. Next to a dumpster. Maybe it was dangerous, but back then no one had to care about safety hazards. But now that's not safe anymore. You can't recklessly do that.
Brenda Weischer • BRENDA’S BUSINESS with PETER DO
it’s very Bank 4.0
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.
- UK Limited Partnerships acted as intermediaries for over 17,000 imports into Russia between 24 February 2022 and 31 March 2023.
- None of these Partnerships have controlling partners or persons of significant control in the UK.
Ross Higgins • Frontline Facilitators: How Secretive UK Partnerships Supply Wartime Russia - bellingcat
Marshmallow | Insurance for UK newcomers
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In magazines, there's something known as a deep caption, a wisp of copy that's substituted for a story when the photo is more important.
Unwedded Bliss (Published 2006)
“Whenever you think you’ve seen it, there is another hidden room. Little by little, one discovers, floor by floor, more and more secret spaces – and I am sure I still have not seen all of them, filled with books upon books. It’s almost paradise. I’ve always thought of the König bookshop as a sort of paradise.”
Hans Ulrich Obrist • WALTHER KÖNIG, Cologne
[...] operators are unlikely to add much supply over the next several years. For one thing, day rates aren’t high enough to justify new orders. Tidewater reckons a rate of at least $38,000 to justify the purchase of a new OSV at an assumed 15% cost of capital. In the second quarter, Tidewater itself was earning an average of $16,042 per day.... See more
Now, it’s Khaite’s turn. The Cate Holstein -designed label is now under the watch of Stripes, one of the few investment firms that regularly takes bets on fashion. Backstage at that show, I asked Holstein how the money has empowered her: I expected her to mention supply chain upgrades or more freedom with show budgets. (The Park Avenue Armory... See more