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

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

Business 39%
Economics 22%
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.

Cooks Beach. Far away.

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
www.nytimes.com
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
doi.org

Too late. The stink of the Kavanaugh Stop won’t go away

Cheap!

Not adding this Tornetta opinion to any casebooks or syllabi

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TRUMP TO SUMMON HEALTH INSURERS TO ASK FOR PREMIUM CUTS - NYP

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

Not surprised

FWIW, the $1 trillion pay package is in addition to this $600 billion.

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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$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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“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

Insanity

Thank you! Illuminating!!

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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)

It’s all so awful

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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