If I am understanding this correctly Sam Bankman Fried who’s out on a bail for fraud charges created a meme coin called “BALD” on Coinbase’s own chain because the CEO of coinbase is bald and then proceeded to pull the rug and pocket $16M+? And this is a real industry?
One of my good friends from college passed away yesterday. The last time he was in NYC I didn’t get dinner with him because I was “busy”.
You’re never too busy for your friends, and you never know if it’s the last time you’ll get to see them. Cherish every moment, life is short.
@BobEUnlimited
I agree with your overall sentiment as the former banks guy at the mothership, even with large HTM systemwide losses, many of the players managed their books this time a lot better than SIVB (No way BofA with a $100B HTM loss doesn't have offsetting IRS gains somewhere else).
Translation: "We won't be able to offer you the optimal order flow for us to sell to market makers and make the most money under this rule which will really hurt our bottom line"
The SEC has proposed a new “predictive data analytics” (PDA) rule that would severely curb financial services firms from using technology to serve customers.
@RobinhoodApp
has voiced opposition, and I strongly stand behind it. This would have a major impact on investors. (1/7)
@growing_daniel
if the US gets out of the group stage we’re playing a knockout World Cup game on the 250th birthday of this great country in our birthplace, Philadelphia
@balajis
or another way of looking at this is lagging edge NATO tech and a bunch of dudes who were working regular jobs 24 months ago are holding off Russia
@mattyglesias
Sometimes you write things that I strongly agree with. I do not understand why one of the trillion dollar companies hasn’t built a super tower yet
If you’re trying to buy a company, instead of paying billions of dollars you could
1) seed some sort of ideological divide within the company
2) Invest just enough (in kind) to have IP Sharing
3) execute a fake coup
4) Hire the beloved now unemployed founders
5) Offer to
NOT SHITPOSTING 1:
As promised.
The entire global economy and a soft landing rests on the continuation of AI capex + R&D. My lower bound is it’s an incremental $1.5T of real organic spend over next 5 years vs. 2019 trend. Or a little more than 1% of GDP. Some of this is going
@TheStalwart
Or they could just hire competent CFOs and finance professionals that didn’t have months of operational cash sitting in regular bank accounts. It’s a double crime not only are you lowering financial returns by up to 5% you’re increasing financial risk.
In honor of Auburn hate week I will be voluntarily donating 28% of my salary this week to a local Alabama charity if we win (28% represents the difference in median salary of a Berkeley econ graduate vs. an Auburn econ graduate)
Today’s cities are atomized and poorly run.
New cities are deeply needed, and their swift construction requires the novel financing structures that I love building and have the unique skillset for.
I found Praxis by chance — I met
@drydenwtbrown
at a dinner in Soho, joined immediately as a member, started helping out with financing strategy, and joined FT when I realized it was my calling.
The Evergrande liquidation doesn’t get the attention it deserves and has valuable lessons for investors. Why? Well, because international bondholders just got wiped out for the benefit of domestic creditors - CCP policy!
From afar, China Evergrande had all the makings of a
Five of the most formative years of my life, learning from the best in the world like
@BobEUnlimited
(how to not be overconfident),
@paul_podolsky
(how to communicate complex financial situations as stories), and most importantly, Ray on how to think from first principles.
@PraxisSociety
, I've been building our novel demand aggregation and financing toolkit, giving people the opportunity to leverage their collective value to enjoy more purposeful lives with the people they truly care about.
Growing up reading the WSJ everyday, opening my first investment account in July 2008 and trading through the financial crisis, it was always my dream to work at a global hedge fund.
I spent my first two years figuring out how I could break into public markets, particularly Bridgewater.
@RayDalio
was my personal hero, and I picked up my copy of Principles and made it my mission to get to Westport CT.
The moment I realized this, I left BW to find purpose.
I spent the next two months talking to my smartest friends,
@_charlienoyes
,
@SoroushG_
,
@saedmyster
,
@ShaneBarratt
, and one theme emerged:
Money alone wasn’t going to make me happy. I needed to double down on impact.
I asked my 7 year old nephew what he wanted to be when he grew up and he said “electrical engineer so I can design computer chips”
Then he went on to explain how Blue LEDs work and why they were an important discovery while building a circuit
@typesfast
One's a rate of change (savings rate, change in wealth) vs. a level chart of debt.
You have to plot the stock of savings against the stock of personal debt to actually see if there is a problem, data would suggest that HH balance sheets are still strong.
In March of 2009, while still in 8th grade, I reasoned that the Fed’s announcement of Quantitative easing would be massive for Stocks and Gold. I went long on both.
@damccormick13
and I ended up winning a stock trading competition based on that thesis.
@sama
Japan has been OK. It’s about the change vs. the level here, and also, when have you looked at a company that is less than 1x levered to EBITDA, not even assets, (showing this with Fed holdings is disingenuous) and freaked out?
Americans are obsessed with protein. They eat about 2x as much of it as the federal government advises, and 60% of US adults are trying to get even more of it into their diets.
Excessive protein consumption could be making us sick. It's also wrecking the planet.
How much
Two years went by-- nothing. Cold Linkedin, applications. Nothing. It seemed like I was destined for the same path as every other finance-oriented student at Berkeley.
I don’t like Trump but I’d never wish violence upon a current or former President of The United States of America. If you fall in that camp look in the mirror—you neither love your country nor understand the gravity of the geopolitical shit storm it would cause
Nikhil took a brief break from discovering exoplanets to cofound a photonic chip company that just raised $100M.
I moved money around on paper.
We’re both building a city 🤝
You're right they don't want to go to Wall Street they want to go to Jane Street, SIG, Citadel, Point72, Blackstone, 2Sig, Shaw, Bridgewater and skip banks all together
Some of the smartest students graduating from the best schools no longer want to go to Wall Street and kill themselves. They want to buy and operate boring, small businesses that print money. Wharton and Harvard grads buying tree-trimming and HVAC businesses in random U.S. towns.