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Breaking Down OnlyFans’ Stunning Economics
Due to UK disclosure requirements, it's possible to examine the P&L of the privately owned/controlled OnlyFans. And the results are shocking.
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on: 2024-09-13
The business of check cashing
Check cashing, as a business, is a poorly understood "alternative" financial service.
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on: 2024-01-31
Credit card debt collection
Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being sordid, for complex structural and microeconomic reasons.
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on: 2023-09-13
Why is McDonald's Considered a Real Estate Company?
The golden arches are synonymous with burgers and fries, but business people find something meatier to sink their teeth into when looking at McDonald’s ledger: the real estate.
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on: 2022-11-19
What is Money, Anyway? - Lyn Alden
Editor’s Note: This topic is now comprehensively covered in my book, Broken Money. Money is a surprisingly complex subject. People spend their lives seeking money, and in some ways it seems so straightforward, and yet what humanity has defined as money has changed significantly over the centuries. How could something so simple and so universal, […]
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on: 2022-03-28
Shopify and the Power of Platforms | Hacker News
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on: 2019-07-11
http://kpcbweb2.s3.amazonaws.com/files/121/INTERNET_TRENDS_REPORT_2018.pdf?1527701640
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on: 2018-05-31
Mcdonald's Real Estate: How They Really Make Their Money -
McDonald’s is one of the biggest real estate companies in the world. It owns $28.4 billion worth of land and buildings (before depreciation).
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on: 2017-04-21
The Amazon Tax
Amazon is building a lot of businesses that look like AWS: taxes on major industries that work to everyone’s benefit. The reason, though, is that AWS is a lot like Amazon itself.
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on: 2016-03-31
What is Money? - Mosler Economics / Modern Monetary Theory
From The Banking Law Journal, May 1913. By A. Mitchell Innes. The fundamental theories on which the modern science of political economy is based are these: That under primitive conditions men lived and live by barter; That as life becomes … Continue reading →
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on: 2015-05-13