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Elizabeth Lopatto

Elizabeth Lopatto

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    Closing time for Sam Bankman-Fried

    Mistakes aren’t illegal, but fraud is — and Bankman-Fried’s lawyers never made his defense land.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t ask where the $8 billion went

    His employees told him he ‘should stop asking questions because it was distracting.’

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    This review of two Sam Bankman-Fried books is absolutely worth your time.

    One of the books, Zeke Faux’s Number Go Up, was given to Bankman-Fried on the witness stand yesterday (He did not recall anything he was quoted as saying, naturally). The author of the other, Michael Lewis, was sitting in the gallery.

    As an avowed John Lanchester fangirl, you can imagine the delighted, high-pitched noise I made when I saw he’d reviewed both books.

    John Lanchester · He-Said, They-Said: Crypto Corruption · LRB 2 November 2023

    [London Review of Books]

    Sam Bankman-Fried doesn’t recall

    Bankman-Fried gets a shot at his side of the FTX story — then promptly shreds his own credibility with the jury.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    The jury finally hears from Sam Bankman-Fried

    He was an introvert!

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Sam Bankman-Fried is going to talk himself right into jail

    Somehow, the least suspicious parts of his defense are the 288 auto-deleting Signal conversations.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    In the end, the FTX trial was about the friends screwed along the way

    The prosecution’s case against Sam Bankman-Fried had a lot of collateral damage.

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    The tragically millennial vocabulary of the Sam Bankman-Fried trialThe tragically millennial vocabulary of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Who knows what’s going on? Not the economists.

    What if 2009 through 2020 were a weird fluke and we are in some new normal? What if inflation stays higher? What if interest rates stay higher? What is going onnnnnnn?

    New Normal or No Normal? How Economists Got It Wrong for 3 Years.

    [The New York Times]

    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Elizabeth Lopatto
    Today in former Google CEO Eric Schmidt being messy: chairman of his girlfriend’s floundering company.

    It’s unclear what Steel Perlot does, as a company (it is “an AI and analytics company of companies”) — or even what “Steel Perlot” means (there is a sailboat that shares its name?) — but whatever it is, it’s not going well. “Just over a year after it launched, the company was asking Schmidt’s family office, Hillspire LLC, to pay its bills,” writes Forbes.

    Former Google CEO Launched A $100 Million Company With His Girlfriend. It’s Not Going Well

    [Forbes]

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