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Brian JM Quinn
@bjmquinn.bsky.social
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Professor @ Boston College Law School (Corporations, M&A, VC, and some corporate history)

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Brian Quinn, CBE is a Scottish economist and former football club chairman. He is an honorary professor of economics at Glasgow University. He is best known for his spell as the chairman of Celtic Plc board. .. more

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6h
This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 22h
Cooks Beach. Far away.

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 2d
When PE and VC funds rely on continuation funds to avoid market based valuations of their exits, we are in trouble

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/b...
Investors Warn of ‘Rot in Private Equity’ as Funds Strike Circular Deals
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 2d
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Marginal Returns to Public Universities,” by Jack Mountjoy: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Marginal Returns to Public Universities
Abstract. This paper studies the returns to enrolling in American public universities by comparing the long-term outcomes of barely admitted versus barely
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 3d
Too late. The stink of the Kavanaugh Stop won’t go away

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 4d
Cheap!

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 4d
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PARAMOUNT AMENDS ITS SUPERIOR $30 PER SHARE ALL-CASH OFFER FOR WARNER BROS. DISCOVERY
/PRNewswire/ -- Paramount Skydance Corporation (NASDAQ: PSKY) ("Paramount") today has amended its $30 per share all-cash offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc....
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 4d
💰👀 daddy taking away the financial risk

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Paramount’s new, hostile offer to Warner Bros. Discovery: Larry Ellison will personally guarantee $40 billion | CNN Business
Paramount has upped the ante in its hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, announcing Monday that Larry Ellison will personally guarantee the tens of billions of dollars he is putting up to ...
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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 7d
Not adding this Tornetta opinion to any casebooks or syllabi

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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 7d
TRUMP TO SUMMON HEALTH INSURERS TO ASK FOR PREMIUM CUTS - NYP

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 8d
Ellison takes control of another corner of the US information space. #TrumpTok

www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/t...
TikTok has signed the deal to spin off its US entity with American investor group | CNN Business
TikTok has signed the deal backed by President Donald Trump to spin off its US assets to create a new entity with a group of mostly American investors, CEO Shou Chew told employees in a memo Thursday.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8d
TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.
TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 8d
Not surprised

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 8d
FWIW, the $1 trillion pay package is in addition to this $600 billion.

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 8d
Trump Media acquiring a nuclear fusion company is like a bad joke. Worse, the DJT spac has turned itself into a spac for TAE.

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 9d
$5K doge checks, $3k tariff rebates and now $1,776 bonuses. At some point Congress will authorize some of this? Or, is constitutional govt nota thing anymore?

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9d
“The Trump administration’s policies on illegal and legal immigration would reduce the projected number of workers in the United States by 6.8 million by 2028 and by 15.7 million by 2035 and lower the annual rate of economic growth by almost one-third.”
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Immigrant Labor Declines As Trump Imposes New Immigration Restrictions
Government data show a decline of 1.1 million foreign-born workers since January. New immigration restrictions will lead to a larger drop.
www.forbes.com

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 9d
Insanity

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 9d
Thank you! Illuminating!!

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⚒️ Robert B @karstic.bsky.social · 9d
The new “Partnership” between Korea Zinc and the “War Department” to build a state of the art new smelter at Clarksville, Tennessee is a surprise. Smelters are complex, large, and expensive- $7B+ and typically are sited near deepwater ports or mining districts. Clarksville is neither (cont)

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 10d
It’s all so awful

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 10d
Sign of the shifting winds that pushed Kushner to drop out?

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Trump Blasts the Ellisons Amid Their Warner Bros. Bid: ‘If They Are Friends, I’d Hate to See My Enemies!’
Trump lashed out again at Paramount chief David Ellison and his father, Larry Ellison -- complaining about his treatment by CBS News' '60 Minutes.'
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 10d
It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression.

Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.'

None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack.

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Brian JM Quinn @bjmquinn.bsky.social · 10d
Financing risk is real.

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Warner Bros. Will Reject Paramount Bid For Netflix Deal As WBD Raises Concerns Over Financing
Warner Bros. makes their move.
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