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      1. For like 90% of my Twitter followers, this is an essential read. Connects to - Labor - Financial crisis, asset bubbles, intermediation - Regulation/capture - NYC🗽 - Lyft/Uber - Executive comp and corp governance - Crime and corruption - Int’l migration - Trump - HH finance - … @jasondhorowitz/1130062843594911744
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      I’m not going to tweet a million quotes from an article you should just read, but can’t resist this perfect aphorism: “[H]e pushed his family to… establish a bank to focus on lending. Medallion Financial went public in 1996. Its motto was, ‘In niches, there are riches.’”
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    Regulator: “It was a party. Why stop it?” Banker: “We didn’t want to be the one left behind” TLC: medallions are “better than the stock market” Nonprofit exec paid $30M: “We didn’t do anything…other than try to help small businesspeople become successful” nytimes.com/2019/05/19/nyregion/nyc-taxis-medallions-suicides.html
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      Yeah, this is going to end well
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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        And legislators appear bigoted and asleep at the switch. [Sorry; turned out I lied when I said I wasn’t going to tweet a bunch of quotes from @brianmrosenthal’s amazing article.]
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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