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How High the Sky?

We’re in the thick of BigLaw’s year-end earnings season, where firms left and right are reporting their FY2024 financial results.  The numbers of greatest interest from a macro-industry perspective–setting aside the perennial gossip-intensive zero... read more +

Build Back Better: For or Against Cities?

by | Sep 14, 2020 | 0 Comments

The world’s leading  business media have written at length—in pieces both speculative and just-the-facts—about scenarios for global metropolitan areas post-Coronatide, and in our humble microdot of the media universe, Adam Smith, Esq. has also published “Whither the...

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Summer Reading List

by | Sep 1, 2020 | 3 Comments

Some of the books that have crossed my desk, and end-table, over the past few months. This year of Coronatide, I define “summer” loosely, as I suspect many of you do.  Sometimes it all feels like March has been extended for an indefinite run.  (September 1 would be...

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Build Back Better: The Covid-19 “Slingshot”

by | Aug 13, 2020 | 0 Comments

If one is looking for an image to encapsulate the Covid-19 "Slingshot" phenomenon, you will find an embarrassment of riches.  But this has to be one of our favorites. In 8 weeks--a heartbeat in a human lifetime--the penetration of online retail increased by 11...

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Build Back Better: Whither the Office? (Part 2)

by | Aug 4, 2020 | 9 Comments

Perhaps I should have said upfront in Part 1, but it’s never too late:  In this series I’m discussing the office after humanity has re-emerged from the global isolation ward this dratted pox has lowered on us all. I am not discussing, and have no interest in,...

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