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He had somehow won the race for president, but his brain seemed incapable of performing what would be essential tasks in his new job. He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switch focus; he had never been able to
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“There was too much to say—regrets, recriminations, disappointments—so we did what we always did. We said none of it.”
― Black Fridays
― Black Fridays
“a second passport, so that they might smuggle him back to the United States before the government of the Bahamas knew what had happened. Christina Rolle never had a chance to speak with him.”
― Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
― Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
“That was it. Gary never said when he would leave, or how he would leave—which was an issue, as the Bahamas had taken his passport. On Sunday night, without a further word to anyone, he just slipped, unnoticed, out of the Orchid penthouse. The lawyer who spirited him off arranged with US authorities to supply him with”
― Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
― Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
“The problem with such categories is that because democracy is multidimensional, there are multiple ways to be partially democratic.”
― Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
― Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
“The new crypto exchanges had no regulators. They acted as both exchange and custodian: they didn’t just enable you to buy bitcoin but also housed the bitcoin you’d bought. The whole thing was odd: these people joined together by their fear of trust erected a parallel financial system that required more trust from its users than did the traditional financial system. Outside the law, and often hostile to it, they discovered many ways to run afoul of it. Crypto exchanges routinely misplaced or lost their customers’ money. Crypto exchanges routinely faked trading data to make it seem as though far more trading had occurred on them than actually had. Crypto exchanges fell prey to hackers, or to random rogue traders who gamed the exchanges’ risk management.”
― Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
― Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
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