Showing posts with label Felix Salmon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Felix Salmon. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

A smart post from Felix Salmon

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Felix Salmon : My point here is that technology has a tendency to create its own norms. The classic example is the automobile — a technol...
Monday, May 6, 2013

Rich versus poor

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It was interesting to go from reading this piece on the lives of the urban poor to this piece from Felix Salmon .  I had not previously hea...
Monday, April 29, 2013

A break from the Felix-bashing

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I realize I've been hard on him lately , but it's worth taking a moment to remember that Felix Salmon is one of the best financial j...
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Friday, April 26, 2013

Free TV blogging -- betting against Felix Salmon

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[Update: Andrew Gelman joins the conversation and, as usual, brings with him a fantastic comment section. Felix Salmon sites this Nielsen s...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Felix Salmon vs. Chet Kanojia

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It's too late for me to think through and research all of the possible issues with these numbers so I'm going to pass these on witho...

Terrestrial Superstations

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Normally, I have to work hard to find something to criticize in a Felix Salmon post. With this one , I'm having to work hard to lay the ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Felix Salmon on personal finance

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Felix Salmon has beaten me to the punch here but I do think that this statement needs to be properly understood for what it means : It s...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Following Mark's link on education

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As a follow-up to Mark I wanted to specically call out some of the pieces of Felix Salmon's piece on test scores and education.  Ins...
Monday, September 3, 2012

Felix Salmon is back: California pension edition

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Felix has a very nice post on the new retirement program that California is considering .  I think it is a very good idea and the state runn...
Saturday, June 30, 2012

Felix Salmon's overview of education

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In a long but pithy post , Salmon uses the over-hyped Aspen Festival as a springboard to discuss education reform, starting with this sharpl...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Dual Class shares and free markets

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Andrew Gelman weighs in on dual class shares :  Now I’m just confused here. Who’s supposed to be “concerned” here? As a New Yorker subs...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

More on the growth fetish -- Facebook vs. Groupon

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There is a worthwhile exchange going on between Felix Salmon and Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry . I've already quoted Salmon , but Gobry makes ...
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Venture capital and the growth fetish

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Felix Salmon has another smart post on venture capital and the way he feels it distorts American business: Another way to look at this ques...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Model assumptions

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Felix Salmon and Matt Yglesias : The entire debate in congress over taxes is that President Obama wants to restore the top marginal rate to...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Math issues

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Felix Salmon's last two posts are brilliant . I strongly recommend reading both of these posts. Seriously! Heck, I am likely to come...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Words of Wisdom -- Weekend Edition

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Felix Salmon is unimpressed with Alan Greenspan and suggests a different perspectiv e: In fact, the opposite is true — ask anybody who has e...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Virtuous Circles

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The ever interesting Felix Salmon has reasons for optimism about the future of Paywalls. In particular, he notes how the porous paywall of ...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Challenges of causal inference in complex systems

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From Felix Salmon: “Spend less money, create more jobs” is the kind of world one normally finds only in Woody Allen movies, and it’s a profo...
Sunday, June 5, 2011

More on Groupon

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As a follow-up to Mark , the comment thread to this post is worth reading. One clever reader noted, in the S-1 groupon just filed: Our mer...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Thought of the day

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I was reading this statement (via a link from Felix Salmon ): Emergers also have a better chance of being part of the coveted 1% who contro...