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Barry Halpern
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Brett Scott • Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money
there couldn’t be many other cases in human history of a person his age tossing around dollars in the amounts he was tossing them without much adult supervision, or the usual constraints of corporate life. A board of directors, for instance. “It’s unclear if we even have to have an actual board of directors,” said Sam, “but we get suspicious glance
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
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The US was now, in Sam’s mind, the holy grail. It had an incumbent crypto exchange, Coinbase. But Coinbase’s CEO had already written insulting tweets about the SEC. And Coinbase, compared to FTX, was a boring and bloated casino. It had fifteen times the number of employees FTX did, and only about a fifth of FTX’s volume. Charging retail investors f
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
The clear impression is that prosecutors had trawled through years of tariff filings searching for possible Standard violations, however technical. In short, it looks like harassment—an impression that is reinforced by the government’s request on retrial, after the case was thrown out on appeal, to present a separate evidential argument for each of
... See moreCharles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
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