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More financial writing should be like this. The various points of view are clearly presented and explained in proper layman terms and it made for very nice read
by grok2 10y ago
More financial writing should be like this. The various points of view are clearly presented and explained in proper layman terms and it made for very nice reading.
- harryh 10y agoMatt Levine is the best. All of his writing is basically like this. Highly recommended!
- mathattack 10y agoHe also writes the best footnotes I've ever seen. :-)
- zymhan 10y agoYeah holy crap I'm still reading the footnotes and they may be even more interesting than the article
- hkmurakami 10y agoHe is known for his footnotes and acknowledges that he is known for his at times excessive (much to our joy) footnotes. :)
- harryh 10y agoIndeed! https://twitter.com/harryh/status/707018942469021696 https://twitter.com/harryh/status/707018942469021696
- tacostakohashi 10y agoI disagree, and find myself increasingly annoyed with his popularity. I liked his earlier journalism, 1-2 years ago, but as he's become increasingly popular he's become like a John Oliver or Michael Moore of finance. The formula is the same - take a complex issue, simplify it beyond recognition, and then act outraged that the rest of the world, when considering the entire complexity of the issue, had a range of reactions different from your five-year-old view of things. It's great entertainment for the masses, but it's a different genre from informative journalism.
- harryh 10y agoReally? I don't generally find that he over simplifies things. Can you cite an example?
- scotty79 10y agoHe totally failed to mention that all people who owned Dell stock were forced to sell for that price whether they wanted it or not. That made me think that all of the process of deciding the price outside of the market is insane while it's exactly opposite.