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Impressive data on the history of debates within the Federal Reserve Board.

It is a bit misleading to label all private equity as "massively leveraged." None of the major investors in "unicorns" of VC use leverage (e.g. Uber https://www.crunchbase.com/orga…

Perhaps Mac users are wealthier than the average Windows user? I am not so sure about the Linux differential. It would be interesting to see the differences conditional on income.

Many of these actions are a consequence of the tax code: non-profit institutions such as universities can borrow for capital projects at the municipal rate and invest at the market…

Blog spam? Original story: http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120803VL204.html

One might argue they didn't invest -- or the company said no! -- for the same reason corporate VC is sometimes frowned upon. Taking capital from corporations with related products …

Here's an academic article on the pay for entrepreneurs backed by VCs: http://www.stanford.edu/~rehall/HallWoodward6.pdf High average returns driven by huge exits and most entrepre…

You have to believe that the (huge) growth rate is perpetual. Most firms do not grow faster than US GDP growth in the long-run.

An API for the raw data that underlies this system would be extremely useful to academics. Databases like compustat and execucomp are expensive and lack some of the most interestin…

Awesome, sounds like you automated and crowd-sourced quality control. Will definitely check it out.

Sounds interesting. Similar to Crowdflower, but with less management on the user end. Crowdflower provides "gold tests" that help filter out mistakes and makes it my go-to source f…

Ah, you are right, it's 'max'!

To be precise, the cost of repatriation is min[(35% - foreign tax),0].

Not mentioned: Google makes about 1/2 its revenues abroad and that cash is costly to bring back to the US (tax laws). So borrowing money in the US could bring their available US ca…

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Great idea, but if you don't use instagram (i.e. share your photos with the world) there is one alternative that I could find in 5 minutes of Googling: shoot it! http://www.shootit…