The Better Letter

MAY 30, 2024

In 2006, Publishers Weekly called The Spy Who Came in from the Cold “the best spy novel of all time,” 43 years after its publication. When like-minded people communicate, they tend to end up thinking a more extreme version of what they already believed, irrespective of what the data shows.

Education 89

Education Numbers Medicine Ethics 89

The Big Picture

AUGUST 29, 2022

BALCHUNAS: While I was in college at Rutgers, and I was — wrote for the school paper, and I decided to major in journalism and communications because I liked it. at a crisis communication firm named Abernathy MacGregor and got to work with several clients and, you know, took them to Bloomberg, took them to Reuters, took them to there.

Assets 173

Assets Management Marketing Marketing 173

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 14, 2022

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. RITHOLTZ: Right.

Assets 162

Assets Investing Investments Portfolio 162

The Big Picture

DECEMBER 24, 2024

These are ethically compromised executives who are just hell bent on increasing profits by any means necessary. You started the Journal in 2006. I mean, you know, it’s a tough world ethic. And he was very clear communicating that. It seems like ethics is completely irrelevant. And these are not nice people.

Retail 130

Retail Advertising Taxes Numbers 130