ESSAYS/NEWS
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The Pool Will Still Be Warm
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On inches, arrivals, and what you buy with the years you didn’t waste. There is a speech in a movie about football that has nothing…
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The U.S. Just Made It Legal to Possess AI-Generated Child Abuse Images. I Read the Ruling From Hong Kong. It Reads Worse From Here.
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There is a noodle shop in Mei Foo where I do most of my thinking, which is not the same as most of my writing…
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MGP Ingredients Just Rewrote Its Debt Rules. That’s Never a Good Sign.
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On August 6, 2026, MGP Ingredients quietly amended the terms of its two primary lending agreements, the revolving credit facility with Wells Fargo and the…
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Qatar Gave America a Free Plane and People Are Furious. Qatar Gave the Clintons Millions and Nobody Cared
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I was sitting on the couch when the news broke. Ruth looked up from her phone and said, “Qatar gave America a plane and people…
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The Comfort Playbook: How Cathay Pacific and Banyan Tree Turned Their Failures Into My Problem
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Or, How Two Corporations Taught Me That Indifference Is a Business Strategy As many of you already know, I grew up in Adams, Massachusetts, a…
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The Education Gap
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How Hong Kong Will Train You for Free While America Asks You to Go Into Debt. The Educational Gap. I graduated from law school in…
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Left on the Shelf
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The Space Between the Wall and the Stove, and Why My Wife Almost Ended Up There When I first came to Hong Kong, I did…
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After C.H. Robinson’s $604 Million Verdict, MGP Ingredients (MGPI) Faces Undisclosed Product Liability Risk as Everclear Burns Victims Across America
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I know some of you who read me work at places that cover this sector. I see people from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, ClearBridge Investments,…
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Fifty-Six
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On the closeness of small towns, the arithmetic of loss, and what it means when the obituary page starts reading like your yearbook. There is…