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Bloomingdale’s has been criticised for a Christmas advert which implicitly encourages men to spike women’s drinks when they aren’t looking. The ad, which appeared in the store’s Christmas catalogue, shows a man staring at a woman with a sapcation reading: “Spike your best friend’s eggnog when they’re not looking.” It has been criticised on Twitter…
Goldman Sachs seems worried about bond-market liquidity. In a note to clients Tuesday, Charles Himmelberg and Chris Henson at Goldman Sachs dissect the recent decline in dealer inventories of investment-grade corporate bonds. This sounds arcane and boring, but their analysis is one of the most important and troubling things we’ve read about bond-market liquidity. Now,…
Comcast is one of the most hated companies in America. What’s worse is that it can’t stop doing infuriating things. This week in Reasons Comcast Sucks, an apparent hack led about 200,000 customers accounts showing up for sale online. Comcast says it was not hacked. Rather, the company is “blaming the incident instead on unsuspecting…
he rope swing looked inviting. Photos of it on Airbnb brought my family to the cottage in Texas. Hanging from a tree as casually as baggy jeans, the swing was the essence of leisure, of Southern hospitality, of escape. When my father decided to give it a try on Thanksgiving morning, the trunk it was tied…
Seven years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers jolted the global economy, the world’s biggest banks may need to raise as much as $1.2 trillion to meet new rules laid down by financial regulators. QuickTake Too Big to Fail After years of work, the Financial Stability Board, created by the Group of 20 nations in…
Back in June of 2014, YIMBY reported on new building applications filed by JDS Development for a tower coming to 340 Flatbush Avenue Ext., on the southeastern edge of Downtown Brooklyn. Now, we have the first rendering and actual details for the SHoP-designed tower, which will rise 1,000 feet tall, claiming the title of New York…
START “MORE FROM NEXT ECONOMY” Custom END “MORE FROM NEXT ECONOMY” Custom SYRACUSE—This office looks like a pretty typical co-working space, what with the guy with a ponytail coding in one corner, the pile of bikes clustered in another, and the minimalist desks spread across a light-filled room. Troy Evans opened this space, CoWorks, in…
Some American radio listeners might have been surprised last year to hear a news account explaining how pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong “failed without the support of the people of Hong Kong.” In fact, a large percentage of local residents joined the demonstrations until they were forcibly suppressed under orders from Beijing. Listeners would have…
Adam Weiss has a commendable track record. His first hedge fund, Scout Capital closed its doors in 2014 returning more than $6.5 billion to investors after beating the S&P 500 consistently by an average of 12% per annum for fifteen years. But it didn’t take Mr. Weiss long to return to the money management business. In…
November 6, 2015 Tagged / open source / 18f consulting / procurement / by V. David Zvenyach Well, we sure didn’t expect this. But the winning bid for the first iteration of the 18F micro-purchase experiment was $1. And, on Wednesday, the winner delivered a solution that passed our acceptance criteria. We conceived…