The Guardian (November 11)
Sam Bankman-Fried, the convicted cryptocurrency fraudster, “talked a lot of venture capitalists into pouring millions of dollars into his business. Maybe they should be more careful next time. Despite protestations of improving VC due diligence, little is likely to change due to the fear of missing out (FOMO). So-called reforms are instead likely to amount to “stable door securely locked… until next time.”
Tags: Bankman-Fried, Careful, Convicted, Cryptocurrency, Dollars, Due diligence, FOMO, Fraudster, Improving, Protestations, Venture capitalists
Financial Times (November 24)
“A careful, calibrated fiscal adjustment to return a government to sustainability is one thing. A brutish insistence on running surpluses well into the future is quite another.” The EU should avoid “choking off a nascent recovery in the Greek economy and setting back the cause of reducing its debt burden.”
Tags: Calibrated, Careful, Debt burden, EU, Fiscal, Government, Greek economy, Recovery, Surpluses
