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CORRECTION: The 5/29 edition of Pluralistic quoted $20k Rebyota; this was the rumored pre-release price; the actual average wholesale price is $10.8k. Thanks to Benjamin Jolley for catching this error, and to Stephen Skolnick for getting to the bottom of it.
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#Sopranos fans know the #BustOut as a mob tactic in which a business is taken over, loaded up with debt, and driven into the ground, wrecking the business's workers, customers and suppliers. When the mob does it, it's a bust out; when Wall Street does it, it's #PrivateEquity.
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It used to be that we rarely heard about private equity, but then, as national chains and iconic companies started to vanish, this mysterious financial arrangement popped up with increasing frequency.
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Android Amusement Corporation’s Argon the robot (created by Gene Beley and Ray Raymond) gets attention from Jacqueline Tirman, attendee of the 1979 National Computer Conference thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/719013377…
From our stacks: Cover detail from Engine Summer. John Crowley. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979. Jacket by Gary Friedman. wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/718992479…