Why it’s important While rampant inflation comes with its own set of challenges, very low levels of inflation (such as that in Japan) also
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Cyril Connoly on American art in New York, 1946
Something important is about to happen … as if the wonderful jenuesse (youth) of America were suddenly to retain their idealism and vitality and
Jed Perl on Barnett Newman
artists felt alienated from the political scientists and social planners who “cannot understand how anyone is able to make anything, particularly a work of
Joe Queenan
Young artist can learn more from a bad Titian than they’ll ever learn fron a good Jeff Koons. Not that there are any good
Google early days
Brin’s advisor at Standford to Brin: “Look, if this Google thing pans out, great. If not, you can return to graduate school and finish
Google looking for investors
Over the course of the next 18 months, the young inventors gave demonstrations of Google to nearly every search company in the Valley, from
Google’s early business travails
Press coverage about Google often glosses over this fact, but the truth is the company lacked a viable plan for making money until early
World wealth by assets 2011
top 50% – assets over $4200 top 25% – assets over 10,000 top 10% – assets over 82,000 top 1% – $712,000
Steve Erickson on the Beach Boy’s Brian Wilson
Barbaris Canonico, creative director of his family company, Vitale Barberis Canonico
When asked if there is any cloth he wont’ make for ethical reasons, Barberis Canonica is frank. “Many mills will do a Super 200