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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The collection was commonly known as The Federalist until the name The Federalist Papers emerged in the twentieth century.
The Federalist Papers
Velez’s clothes are thrashed, harsh, and even imply some kind of violence. She isn’t interested in “beauty” in the old-fashioned sense of the fashion industry, but in the chaotic multiplicities contained within femininity, even as women are portrayed exclusively as victims in the media.
Adam Lehrer • Who’s Afraid of Elena Velez?
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
When we did Smartwater with Jennifer Aniston , that was the first time I saw an equity-cash combo deal, when Jennifer was a part owner of the company, which then sold to Coke [for $4.1 billion in cash].
The Tao of Shemarya
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.
when China joined the World Trade Organization, in December 2001, its per capita G.D.P. was around $300 a year. “That’s like going to a good Nantucket restaurant for dinner,” he said. “That was the entire income of the average Chinese person.”
May the Schwarzman Be With You
now it's $12,000 vs. $70,000 in the US (and $36,000 in 2001 in US)
though on Google it says China's per capita GDP in '01 was $950
still, insane growth
Well, money. There was $370 in her account. “And I made a $400 sale two hours ago,” she said, meaning she had been in the red that morning.
Jessica Testa • Should Making It in Fashion Be This Hard?
the first children’s climate trial took place in the U.S. when a group of 16 young people sued Montana for violating their constitutional rights, including rights to equal protection, dignity, liberty, health and safety, and public trust, all predicated on their right to “a clean and healthful environment” as enshrined in the state constitution.... See more
America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due
Yglesias’s newsletter, “Slow Boring,” has a readership that includes more than six thousand paid subscribers, and he is making twenty-seven thousand dollars a month