China Trade & the National Debt, Amazon Escapes New York & the Evolution of Spotify

Degenerate Business School

English - February 16, 2019 08:00 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
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In MACROECONOMICS:

CHINA offers our exalted leader Trump $200B over six years to buy semiconductors as a sweetener for trade detente, bringing joy to the markets. Why does the stock market react so strongly to whispers about trade agreements between nations?

THE NATIONAL DEBT ballooned to $22T, reaching uncharted territory. Robert spits in the face of conventional wisdom and loses his shit, telling us why we should all be ready for the apocalypse.

In BUSINESSES:

THIS WEEK'S DEGENERATE CHAMPION: GENE LEVOFFIn a decisive degenerate move, Gene Levoff, former in house lawyer at Apple, is being charged with insider trading after dumping over $10 million in stock before Apple's unimpressive earnings call in 3rd quarter 2015.

AMAZON jettisons its headquarters in Queens after a theatrical standoff with local politicians. Liberal politicians crow. Unions (which apparently still exist) celebrate. But are these local grandees missing the point? Of course they are!Let's spend some time on

SPOTIFY, a glorious purveyor of this podcast, which two weeks ago acquired podcast publisher Anchor and podcast producer Gimlet. What are the strategic implications of diversifying into spoken word audio? Besides the fact that we'll be RICH!