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Go poolside in these archival images from the photographer-king of warm-weather leisure.

After many decades of finance driven neoliberalism that has decimated domestic industrial know how, the US now embraces industrial policy.

India should take note. India needs a strong industrial policy focused on building deep industrial know how.

RT @EricBellmanWSJ: India has emerged the surprise leader of the global vaccine diplomacy race. It has exported three times more doses than it's given its own citizens and can spare even more without hurting its own rollout.

This is some insane, crazy, baller shit:

r/wsb just ran over one of the most successful hedge funds around

Walter Russell Mead reviews “Underground Asia” by Tim Harper ("A clearly written, brilliantly researched examination of the people and movements that shaped Asia’s course in the 20th century and continue to influence the continent today.") via @WSJ

"Turkey’s Armenian, Greek and Assyrian communities disappeared as a result of a staggered campaign of genocide beginning in 1894, perpetrated against them by their Muslim neighbors. By 1924, the Christian communities of Turkey ... had been destroyed."

What a great guy!

.@Dhume should know that only person who was ever denied a visa to the USA under International Religious Freedom Act 1998 was Mr Modi, the man who then received the most votes in any election in human history.

Democracy promotion or anti Hindu bigotry?

Imagine burning $2 billion dollars of VC funding in 6 months

That's $10 million per day

$455,000 per hour

$7,589 per minute

$126 per second

@anandology @bangpypers @ramkrsna @btbytes @swaroopch @phoe6 Yes of course, Tom Locke who was here in Bangalore a good part of 2008 trying to develop interest on this. I attended couple of his sessions.

Digged up an old WSJ article on this

Six of the most commonly used active ingredients in sunscreen are absorbed into the bloodstream at concentrations far greater than the FDA’s safety threshold

If you need sun protection, there are far better ways

When Companies Wielded the Power of States

The last person to receive a Civil War-era pension, Irene Triplett, has died. The benefit was for her father’s service in the Union Army.

Foreign-born doctors are on the front lines in the fight against Covid-19—and if they get sick or die, their families could face deportation via @WSJ

Additionally, the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 selectively grants Cuban émigrés permanent residency, denying the same benefits to other Latin American refugees, many of whom were also victims of communism

Good point by @npunwani in addition to Lautenberg

"In New York, adding coronavirus patients to nursing homes proved a dangerous mix. It was fatal error." ⁦@WSJ⁩ | It was murder.

19/ "The state is run for the very rich, the very poor, and the public employees."

A great quote from Joel Kotkin—on California slowly turning into a "two-and-a-half-class society"—from this fantastic 2012 article

Feinstein mansions, favelas and unions

With salons closed, people are cutting their hair at home and it’s not pretty.

A note: In…