Blog Profile / Felix Salmon
| URL : | http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon | |
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| Filed Under: | Business & Finance | |
| Posts on Regator: | 1855 | |
| Posts / Week: | 15.8 | |
| Archived Since: | February 17, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Elliott vs Argentina: The Second Circuit’s dangerous game
On Friday, the Second Circuit court of appeals issued an order, aimed at Argentina.
Content economics, part 2: payments
Apologies for the delay between part 1 and this: I wanted to wait until Amanda Palmer's TED talk appeared online, because it's an important part of the other big aspect of content economics.
Counterparties: Andrew Mason’s disruptive behavior
How should a CEO act? Andrew Mason, the co-founder of Groupon, is stepping down, and his legacy is already being defined with terms like “quirky” and “eccentric”.
A very smart way to save antiquities
I first heard about the Sustainable Preservation Initiative back in 2009, when it was little more than an idea attached to a tollgate.
Counterparties: European bonus season just got a lot more boring
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Why Argentina will default in 2013
The precedent being set here is not a happy one -- not for international bondholders, probably not even for Elliott Associates, which is still a long way from getting paid, and definitely not for Argentina.
Counterparties: Sequestration nation
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The no-brainer immigrant-entrepreneur visa
Many thanks to the Kauffman foundation for crunching the numbers on a key part of Jerry Moran's clumsily-named Startup Act 3.0 -- the new visa for immigrant entrepreneurs.
More convenience, less privacy
Restaurants are the natural home of impulse purchases.
Counterparties: Bigger slices, bigger pie
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It’s time to abolish the FHFA
Remember the force-placed insurance scandal, which first came to light back in 2010?
How to get people excited about education
Following a recommendation from Bond Girl on Twitter, I spent a 95-minute chunk of Saturday night on YouTube, watching the first of five Leonard Susskind lectures on cosmology and very much looking forward to the rest.
Art world lawsuit of the day: Mirvish vs Knoedler
This lawsuit is a rare glimpse into a side of the art world which is very rarely seen -- a purely mercenary world of co-investments and speculative bets, where stakes in artworks are bought and sold with an eye to making many millions of dollars in profit should a convenient hedge-fund manager turn up brandishing a $17 million check.
Don’t let doctors’ incomes derail healthcare-cost reform
Sarah Kliff and Matt Yglesias both have good summaries of Steve Brill's monster Time article on healthcare costs.
Counterparties: Austerity bites
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The high-cost index-fund 401(k)
I like index funds, and I believe that the best way to maximize your retirement savings is, simply, to save more money.
Counterparties: Can America’s doctors cure the deficit?
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Content economics, part 1: advertising
Back in December, Peter Kafka summed up the most important question with regards to the future of online advertising.
Counterparties: All loans are risky loans
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The long arm of the Google
Is Google becoming a key arm of the law-enforcement complex?