Diego Segura

While the average for an Affirm loan is 18%, approximately 43% of loans are issued at 0% APR.

When I was younger, my wife always told me I could always just choose to be happy. I didn’t believe her. But, after meditating the past few years, one of my insights is that she was correct.

3G had taken Burger King private in a 2010 leveraged buyout for $4.1 billion, using $1.6 billion of its own equity. At the time, Burger King had one brand—Burger King—and 12,000 restaurants in 70 countries and some $15 billion in revenue. In short order, 3G transformed Burger King into Restaurant Brands International, comprising 30,000 restaurants... See more

That was seen in March when violence erupted across India during Ram Navami, which marks the birth of Ram. Over 20 people were injured in different parts after groups of Hindus marched through Muslim neighbourhoods waving saffron flags and swords as they danced and shouted along to anti-Muslim songs blasting from loudspeakers.

One of the songs with... See more

Chubb specializes in XoL (excess of loss) trade credit insurance, which means that the insured company agrees in the policy to take a significant loss before “coverage” kicks in. This is different than ground-up insurers like Atradius, Allianz, and Coface, who will insure entire losses (also known as “ground-up”.)

Like everything Warhol touched, it could turn mass culture into counterculture, and vice versa, just by squinting.

People don’t understand that it’s expensive to be famous. Once you become famous, you’re forced to always have security and all these other things. It’s not an option. So all of a sudden you’ve got these huge overhead costs.