Brian JM Quinn
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Brian JM Quinn
@bjmquinn.bsky.social

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%

That aged poorly

How exactly does Trump think he will be “running” Venezuela? Are there platoons of MAGA chuds on their way to Caracas ready to take control of all the ministries? Idiocy. 🍊🤡

Zelenskyy has this wrong. The proper way to understand this is Trump (Putin) seeking to topple a leader, Maduro (Zelenskyy) in what he considers a vassal state. There is nothing good in this situation for Ukraine

This is all so effing stupid.

Watch this. Watch again.

"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."

So weak

If you were to ask him to articulate the “Don-roe Doctrine”, all you’d get would be two minutes of gibberish and filibustering. The word “oil” would be recognizable tho

The “Don-roe Doctrine”? Effing clown. 🍊🤡

orange f-ing clown.

What was the point of that FIFA Peace Prize anyway?!

Insanity. An illegal war. If we had a Congress they would impeach him immediately

Leave the country for a minute and all of a sudden 🍊🤡 starts an illegal war. Is there a Congress anymore.

I’m sure he hopes that’s true.

In Sydney, Australia. Just took a rideshare in a BYD Seal. Detroit and Tesla are toast.

Could be a landmark case for animal rights. Dies the bear have standing?

Like wearing a watch…

Still away.

Rep. Andy Biggs: "I would suspect that probably in about four months you'll see something really dramatic happen and the prices will come down ... things are going better than most people would realize, but Americans feel things."

Maybe Biden should have let SVB collapse rather than bail out Sacks, et al

Still far away. In the Coromandel.
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
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Too late. The stink of the Kavanaugh Stop won’t go away

Cheap!