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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This started with the Seventh Avenue, shop-and-copy approach that has defined the industry, but no longer works with consumers on a global scale. America created the concept of lifestyle brands—it drove the rise of casualization as early as the 1950s, first through denim, then khakis, and now leggings. But the fashion itself has long been... See more
Coach & Kors’ Marriage of Convenience
“The product has to be really good, or really cheap, or both. Not in between.”
Forerunner Ventures’ Kirsten Green , Into the Gloss co-founder Nick Axelrod (now at UTA Ventures), or Emily’s former assistant, Morgan Von Steen
After the Gloss: What’s Next for Emily Weiss
some people to note
On a chilly morning in downtown Los Angeles, a week after my visit, I put on one of the hoodies Playboy gave me. As I was standing in line for a coffee, a young skateboarder complimented it. After thanking him, I couldn’t help but ask, “What does the Playboy bunny stand for, in your opinion?”
He paused for a while.
“Uhh,
I dunno.
Boobs?”
He paused for a while.
“Uhh,
I dunno.
Boobs?”
Cassidy George • The Play-Doh Bunny: A History of Playboy
we overthink our brand strategy to be remembered as one (or two!) things.
A $16 Billion Wall Street Lawsuit for the Ages
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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
Notes on **Higher for much longer**, *Grant's Interest Rate Observer*, Vol. 41 No. 14
- learned who Louise Yamada is, apparently someone who Grant's gives the credit of being an adept market timer
- Grant's wrote an article on June 4 2004, **Bonds: The next generation** that made the same prediction... See more
The Commerce Department estimates that American corporations paid out 44 percent of their pretax profits in dividends last year, up from 23 percent in 1980.
Steve Lohr • Companies Cut Stock Dividends As Profits Drop (Published 1991)
also 1991
War & Profit
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wildly interesting boom economy in Russia right now despite all of the sanctions imposed by the west
“But as usual, in Moscow, things looked very different. ‘They are even richer,’ a friend in Moscow texted when I asked him how the residents of the chic Patriarch Ponds neighborhood are living through these uncertain times. ‘It is amazing. Never seen so many Lambos and Rolls as last year.’ What about the ruble crisis, I asked? “Don’t care,” he texted. ‘They live in Russia, taking salaries in rubles and spend their money in Russia.’
A friend of his is an interior designer who has been freed by the war of competition. Her problem, she now says, is being able to finish all the jobs that have fallen in her lap, not getting new customers. Another friend, who works for a Russian oligarch, told my friend, ‘You have no idea how much money there is in Russia right now.’ Said ‘Only a fool wouldn’t be able to earn money right now.’”
apparently if you're remotely good at making money, you're making a *fuck ton* of money in Russia right now, and so long as you're transacting solely in Rubles, it doesn't really matter that the currency is collapsing
long term, however, it's gotta mean terrible things for their economy and the Ruble being weak can't be good for long
apparently there is tons of money flowing to the poorest regions of Russia for signing bonuses for soldiers, and they're even helping soldiers out with their mortgages as a way to encourage them to join the fight
in essence, there's a massive wealth redistribution going on in Russia, and it's all just coming from the country's budget and (as would make Keynes proud), trickling down throughout the entire country
which, if you think about the goals of the sanctions, is not in the West's favor, at least in the short-term
the point of the sanctions ideally would have been to create a slowdown in Russia that caused the public to lose support for the war, but if the economy is booming.......don't count on it
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.