Watch and See
I love the movies. More than that I love going to the cinema. I’ve always maintained that the best and ideal way to see a movie is in the cinema, sitting in the dark, surrounded by other viewers, and light projected through celluloid onto a large screen in front of you that really shows the [...]
Recession Thinking For Private Equity
When times are good everyone wants a piece of highly successful companies that churn out steady profits with unshakable consistency. But what happens when the skies darken and making hard choices become a matter of survival?
During these difficult times it remains to be seen whether private equity and venture capital firms will emerge as good [...]
“Why I’m Happy. Why I’m not satisfied.”
(Via Matt)
The Department of Memory
In his Inaugural Address, President Obama said, “Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.” Now the moment I heard it I searched for where it came from. My suggestion is to credit Jerome Kern and Dorothy Field, with a nod to Fred [...]
Branding for the new economy
As I endlessly reword my Bernie Madoff story (surely the 8,756th of its kind written in the past month), I looked over at a folder on my desk labeled “Branding.” It refers to hedge fund branding, a feature story I planned to write six months ago in a different world.
How quaint it now seems. [...]
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As with Anna Karina, we prefer to remember the U.S.A as she was in the 1960s.
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