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[IAC] IAC [MGM] MGM

IAC and MGM

September 19, 2022

There was a time, not too long ago, when an investor could treat IAC as [...]

[AHT] Ashtead [URI] United Rentals

[URI] United Rentals

August 29, 2022

I. United Rentals rents equipment that customers use to build and maintain commercial structures – [...]

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[TXN] Texas Instruments

[TXN] Texas Instruments

I. I was first introduced to Texas Instruments by my dearest high school friend: Only [...]

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[SPOT] Spotify [UMG] Universal Music [WMG] Warner Music

[UMG, WMG] record labels and the music industry: opportunities and challenges

I. Every few years, this graphic from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), reproduced [...]

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[ODFL] Old Dominion

[ODFL] Old Dominion and less-than-truckload

Let’s say a parts supplier needs to get a full trailer of parts from its [...]

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Podcast Blurbs

Podcast Blurbs [Larry Summers, Levered restaurant franchisees, Books vs. podcasts, Cramer on MongoDB]

Posted on October 27, 2017October 27, 2017 by scuttleblurb

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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