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Update: You can see how this worked out after 6 months here . Short version: it did not escape the weekly review trap. Introduction There is a lot of praise among my friends for weekly reviews . There

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Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here . Or just read on… Today I’m going to write about how private equity is reacting to the pa

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