Newmark's Door

For now, data and information and AI are hot.

"Other" includes Lego, Nike, Cargill, and more.

"As the business world widely recognizes, incumbent/startup acquisitions efficiently combine a startup’s innovation excellence with an incumbent’s scale, scope and access to capital. This potent synthesis can accelerate the process of converting an innovation into a viable product for market release. Unfounded regulatory interventions based on hypothetical models of market failure harm consumers and startups by obstructing the path to commercialization."

Well, I don't think it will help.

One business owner recently told me that the millionaires’ tax was a significant reason he made Florida his primary residence last year. He, like Calvo-Bacci and many others, was already antsy about the state’s high estate and business taxes as well as the rising cost of living, driving him toward friendlier pastures. Meanwhile, wealth advisers and business consultants throughout the state say that many of their clients are looking seriously into moving beyond Massachusetts’ borders. Some, they say, will definitely move, while others have commissioned studies in preparation to flee in a few years when current leases or other obligations run out. 

NY Post article on a study that tries to improve on the literature by replacing a dummy independent variable for subsidy or no subsidy with data on the actual amounts of the subsidies.

Presentations or pitch decks by Worldcom, Enron, Theranos, and more.

It would be nice if the article included some other times or places for comparison--capitalism is supposed to involve "creative destruction"--but it seems discouraging nonetheless.

Contradicting a widespread prediction that legalizing pot would kill the illegal trade, the illegal trade is flourishing. And guess why?

For more see "How New York and California Botched Marijuana Legalization"

Excellent question.

Congress especially needs to get to the bottom of exactly which Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation board member – or members – decided the FDIC would prevent nonbank financial companies from purchasing the failed bank. 

I find the author of this piece, Vitaliy Katsenelosn, sensible and usually interesting. We'll see if he's right.