Longreads + Open Thread
VIX, Wrestling, AI Fiction, Tech Trees, Air Conditioning, Mortgages, Currency, Munger
VIX, Wrestling, AI Fiction, Tech Trees, Air Conditioning, Mortgages, Currency, Munger
Plus! Money-as-a-Service; Exports; AI as a Complement; Equity Comp; Rolling Your Own
Plus! Making a Market; Pricing and Search; Ecosystem; Lobbying and Liquidity; AI, Writers, and Hollywood
Plus! Secrets; Indexing and Pricing Power; Elsewhere in ETFs; Trapped Profits; Bard
Plus! Diff Jobs; Instacart: Ahead of the IPO; Movie Clips and the Piracy Equilibrium; EVs and Public Choice Theory; Banks Retrench; China's Lost Decade?
Beauty Premium, Yahoo, Writing, Merchant Banks, Baby Boom, Guidance, Hedge Funds
Plus! M&A and Price Signals; AI and Pricing Power; Medium Tech Structured Deals; Two Trade Systems
Plus! The Basis Trade; FaZe Clan; Defensible Durables and the Right to Repair; Portable Mortgages; ARM
Plus! Stocks and Bonds; Controlling the Value Chain; Call Options on Skirting Rules; Cornered by Advertising Narratives; Duration Bets
Plus! Aging Up; Housing; Virality; LLM Arms Races; The Uber of X
OpenAI, Final Fantasy, Razors and Blades, Multistrategy, Risk
Plus! Flexport; Generative Copy; Correlations; It's All Ads; Use-It-Well-Or-Lose-It