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chrisrempel.com • Part 1: the internet is having a kodak moment – Chris Rempel's Blog
the fall of capitalism
Ish H • 9 cards
shorting dot-com stocks was prohibitively expensive when it wasn’t literally impossible.
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Anti-Capitalism
Brianne Johnson • 11 cards
However, here in the 2020s the bond market is riding on a lot of reputational momentum. The things that made it the smart money previously are now largely gone. That’s not to say that the people trading it are any less intelligent than before, but rather it is to say that the structure and size of the market is such that intelligent bond traders ar
... See moreLyn Alden • May 2024 Newsletter: The Bond Market Is the “Dumb Money” Now
Amazon suffered very negative publicity when it leaked that it was differentiating prices for DVDs according to personal profiles or browsers. Amid the intense public outcry, Amazon stopped the practice and reimbursed buyers.
Hermann Simon • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything

Andrew Redleaf and Richard Vigilante write in Panic: The Betrayal of Capitalism by Wall Street and Washington, “The ideology of modern finance replaced the capitalist’s appreciation for free markets as a context for human creativity with the worship of efficient markets as substitutes for that creativity. The result was a divorce of entrepreneurial
... See moreSacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
There matters stood on December 16, 1773, when a patriotic band, masquerading as Mohawk Indians, heaved 342 chests of tea into Massachusetts Bay. Such was the instinctive respect for private property in the colonies that even Boston firebrand Samuel Adams boasted that the tea party had occurred “without the least injury to the vessels or any other
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