Category London

Upstream

-New regulation (and recapitalization)  will bring “tremendous mispricing between the different levels of the capital structure” in Banks: Blue Mountain’s James E. Staley.
Recent trends in Latin American High Yield Offerings,
-“Prepackaged Bankrupcy/Restructuring” in Delaware – “The Curious Case of the European Vodka Seller” by The New York Times,
– Last week: Mary Meeker’s Annual Internet Trends Report: mobile momentum,wearables and China -main slides mentioning Brazil below – mobile, mobile….,
A brilliant review of one of Paris’ worst restaurants (via @GeorgesJanin) : ” Why do they continue to come here?….The only rationally conceivable answer is: Paris, Paris exerts a mercurial force field….it defies judgment.”

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Commas

Negative carry, pariah profits…and game of thrones

BRIC Breaker on Brazil and that other country where people are also investing…

Index fund firm says that Hedge Funds returns are “strongly correlated with a 60/40 portfolio of stocks and bonds.” (a bit biased but…)

Music piracy (may) not be the problem

“Somewhere in the future there is a computer project called Simulacron one of which is able to simulate a full featured reality….” World on a Wire – a newly “discovered” Fassbinder with echoes of Baudrillard (via The Criterion Collection)

Commas

Hedge-funds:2 books, 2 visions (the average and the “genius” ) as reviewed by The Economist

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.” – Ben Horowitz from Andreeseen Horowitz

…when beer writers imagine heaven, it looks exactly like the Southampton Arms.

a brilliant review by Geoff Dyer of Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station

Brooklyn: a vertically integrated factory for literature