Monthly Archives: January 2017

The Jump Ship Edition

Slate Money discusses America’s abandonment of the TPP and some headline news from Cathy.

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The Xi Loves Me Edition

From the World Economic Forum in Davos, Slate Money reports on China’s support for globalization and the United Kingdom’s role in a changing Europe.

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A response to Oxfam on its wealth statistics

Many thanks to Oxfam’s Ben Grossman-Cohen for responding in detail to my post about his wealth statistics

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How the middle class beat the world’s billionaires

The barbell has hit Davos squarely in the face, and Davos Man is down for the count.

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The toothless global elite have surrendered to Trump’s slick ambassador

Anthony Scaramucci is in his favorite place: the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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Why so few world leaders showed up at the most elite conference of them all

The list of high-profile world leaders has completely disappeared, because it would be embarrassingly short.

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Nota bene #6

One of the non-obvious consequences of being named Felix is that you end up thinking quite a bit about the semantics of happiness.

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What Oxfam’s misleading stat gets wrong about inequality

What I would love to see is not a wealth ranking based on net worth (assets minus liabilities), but rather a wealth ranking based simply on assets.

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The Ballpoint Pen Edition

Slate Money discusses the mysterious history of Bic Cristal pens and Anthony Scaramucci’s White House assignment.

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The Pink Collar Edition

Slate Money discusses the growth of traditionally female caregiver jobs, which men often don’t want, and Trump’s debt ties.

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If you click on WSJ push notifications, you’re one in a million

Either that, or Greg Emerson has no idea what an order of magnitude is.

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When is a liar not a liar?

My response to Gerard Baker.

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