Longform links: the language of economics
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
1 month ago
2 MIN READ
AI
Internet
- The Rot Economy is real. Why your online is degrading rapidly. (wheresyoured.at)
- Nothing is forever on the Internet. Stuff is disappearing all the time. (theverge.com)
Opioids
- How this opioids maker avoided paying $7 billion in criminal fines. (propublica.org)
- Why didn’t PBMs limit opioid prescriptions? They were paid not to. (nytimes.com)
Crime
- How high profile musicians took advantage of the Covid-era Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program to pay themselves millions. (businessinsider.com)
- The story of a Texas police officer who was a ‘perfect’ predator. (wapo.st)
Existential risks
- Humanity has the unique ability to permanently destroy itself. (forkingpaths.co)
- Doomsday bunkers are just expensive security blankets for billionaires. (insidehook.com)
Entertainment
- The economics of the Eras Tour are stunning. (readtrung.com)
- A history of the G-rated film. (tedium.co)
Longreads
- The venture capital business has diverged: comparing a16z and Benchmark. (nytimes.com)
- How companies use cardboard boxes to enhance their brand. (placesjournal.org)
- Why it seems we are working harder for lesser quality goods. Rinse, repeat. (moneywithkatie.com)
- On the (big) global business of the human egg trade. (bloomberg.com)
- How science has created a more productive milk cow. (worksinprogress.co)
- People who have done nothing wrong are facing the risk of deportation. The story of one man. (nytimes.com)
- Ukraine is facing a dark winter. (theatlantic.com)
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