Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 30th September/1st October 2023
Hopin: virtual events start-up struggles as real gatherings return by Kadhim Shubber , Patricia Nilsson and Miles Kruppa
““The landscape will look very different going forward. People can now meet,” noted one events industry executive. They dismissed the pandemic-driven online events boom as “a bit of an artificial bubble”…”
Charlie Engle Runs for His Life, Once Again by Joe Nocera
“The first time I ever spoke to Engle, he was calling me from a telephone in a minimum-security prison in Beaver, W.Va. This was in the spring of 2011, three years after the financial crisis. In the wake of that crisis, millions of people lost their homes because, during the bubble, they had taken on subprime mortgages they ultimately couldn’t afford. Engle, who had gotten caught up in the housing bubble, was in prison for mortgage fraud…”
The Marshall Plan is no longer niche history by Gillian Tett
“Yet there are plenty of explanations for why the Marshall Plan debate needs to happen now. One is that western allies want to act as though they assume Ukraine will win the war. Another is that they want to capitalise on the current goodwill towards the country because there is a chance that this could crumble in a media and political culture with a short attention span.…”
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