Wow. An astonishing tale by @iamhurst about his investing mania in 2021 and its psychological and financial impact. Must read. Guessing he was far from alone.
theguardian.com/technology/202… "By December, my once meager portfolio was worth $250,000 and I had branched out into all sorts of speculative and risky investments, going all in on the exhilarating combination of leverage plus risk. You should sell out, a college friend who had also jumped into the market...

Enjoying watching all the representatives of opposition parties on TV talking shit about Macron while blaming him for the country being so divided. Guess we'll see, what happens in June. I mean...

https://twitter.com/CCiminelli/status/1518298003366420480?t=Ab2s0Vn0rY8bhDS4W0ZzSQ&s=19

The @nytimes has a dangerous obsession with Le Pen. A quick review of headlines from the past month:

Marine Le Pen Is as Dangerous as Ever
nytimes.com/2022/04/20/opi…

Macron May Keep the Presidency, but Le Pen Has Already Won
nytimes.com/2022/04/22/opi… Le Pen Closer Than Ever to the French Presidency (and to Putin)
nytimes.com/2022/04/22/wor…

A Reinvented Marine Le Pen Threatens to Upend French Elections
nytimes.com/2022/04/07/wor…

Macron to Face Le Pen for President as French Gravitate Toward Extremes
nytimes.com/2022/04/10/wor…

I would love for someone smarter on finance to take a deeper look at Musk's financing for the Twitter takeover. From a glance, it seems risky for him. If the Twitter board was feeling spiteful, they should just sell it to him tomorrow because I think it could sink him and Tesla. The first $12.5b is debt financing and revolving loans through a large syndicate of banks. It would seem this debt is secured by Twitter, which means it would be added to its balance sheet. So a company that has never generated much cash would need to pay?
sec.gov/Archives/edgar…

I only met Tony Hsieh once, very briefly, back in 2000, a few months after I started at the @mercnews. He and Albert Lin had already sold LinkExchange to @Microsoft in 1998. Hsieh and Lin popped up on my radar because they had just started Venture Frogs.
urlwire.com/newsarchive/09… Not only did the name seemly utterly ridiculous, but they decided to locate in San Francisco in the AMC movie theater building AND open a restaurant to satisfy their craving for late-night food. This seemed like the ultimate dot-com bubble absurdity.
sfgate.com/food/insidesco…

This NY Times homepage illustrates my continued frustration with the US media and campaign coverage and the lack of lessons learned from 2016. I count 11 headlines today mentioning Trump/Pence. 1 mentions Harris. 0 mention Biden: I understand Trump is facing a health crisis. But 11 headlines? Surely Biden said something noteworthy while campaigning yesterday in Arizona? But instead, the media lets Trump suck up all the oxygen as he has for years.

That viral video that got @realDonaldTrump put in the doghouse and @DonaldJTrumpJr temporarily booted wasn't some random viral hit. If you want to see how the right carefully coordinates messages and leverages social media platforms to spread disinformation, then read on. The group that made the video calls itself America's Frontline Doctors. The website doesn't give much detail about this organization. americasfrontlinedoctors.com

Today is a notable day in French history : The 20th anniversary of the 'attack' on a McDonald's in rural France. Like so many things that happen here, this story managed to be turned into a caricature of the French as it gained international attention. So what hapened that day? This New York Times story from the time, just to cite one example, uses the word 'attack' in the headline, and implies in the beginning this was one farmer acting alone. Only after careful reading does it note others were arrested. nytimes.com/2000/09/14/wor…