Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading 4th/5th OCT 2025
The remarkable conversion of the lead Pearl Harbor bomber
“Fuchida later served in carrier strikes against the British in Sri Lanka and an attack on Darwin in Australia. Most significantly he was present at the defining aircraft carrier Battle of Midway on 4 to 7 June 1942. Here the US Navy, aided by the breaking of Japan’s naval codes, scored a fluky yet crushing victory against the Admiral Yamamoto’s Imperial Japanese Fleet. Four of his six fleet carriers were sunk in the space of minutes with the loss of just one US carrier. It was a blow from which Japan could never recover.…”
A bonfire of the decencies’: Peter Hennessy on Boris Johnson’s government by Henry Mance
“ Hennessy came of age in the early 1960s, an optimistic if anxious era when even motorways seemed exciting. He became interested in politics after hearing his relatives complain about the Labour party. He started off as a journalist in Westminster, including at the FT, and thought he might like to be a politician “until I saw what it was like, drinking through the night…”
Inside the Harvard Business School Ponzi Scheme, He had a successful Wall Street career. Why would he con his classmates? by Jen Wieczner
“The idea sounded solid on the surface. Vlad Artamonov told prospective investors, many of them his former classmates from Harvard Business School, that he’d discovered a hidden way to learn which stocks Warren Buffett was buying early, an edge that would make him a lot of money. It involved, he said, combing through esoteric state financial disclosures and then trading on the information — essentially, a way to obtain insider tips legally. “Have an insane idea,” he told one investor in the fall of 2022. But it seemed plausible coming from Artamonov, who, in addition to his Ivy League credentials, had spent more than five years at Greenlight Capital, the highly regarded activist hedge fund run by David Einhorn, a self-described admirer of Buffett. He told investors he aimed for returns of as much as 1,000 percent and wanted to make “hundreds of millions of dollars” on the play. “It is really a ridiculous information arbitrage,” he told another investor that fall. “Basically, getting tomorrow’s newspaper today. Literally having a private time machine.” …
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