Freakonomics Radio (9/28/17; Why Larry Summers is the Economist Everyone Hates to Love) Larry Summers: (On infrastructure) “I think we’ve completely mismanaged infrastructure investment in the United States. It’s nuts that when interest rates are lower than they’ve been at any time in the last 50 years that we’re also investing less net of depreciation…it’s […]
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[DHR] Danaher
[scuttlebit] Danaher update
March 31, 2026
It’s been nearly three years since I last wrote up Danaher and Thermo Fisher, so [...]
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[RYAN] Ryan Specialty – the middlemen have middlemen
March 23, 2026
This is a companion piece to the Kinsale writeup from a few weeks ago, where [...]
Continue reading →[MCO] Moody's Corp
S&P, Moody’s, and the limits of AI disruption: Part 2
March 13, 2026
I briefly discussed credit ratings in my S&P write-up. It’s a great business, we all [...]
Continue reading →[WIX] Wix.com
[scuttlebit] Wix at the AI Crossroads
March 6, 2026
What are scuttlebits? Wix was conceived to democratize the creation of websites at a time [...]
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S&P, Moody’s, and the limits of AI disruption: Part 1
March 3, 2026
(Part 1 concerns S&P Global; Part 2 will be published next week and discusses Moody’s) [...]
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