Bob Lefsetz: Facebook is for Oldsters

Love getting these little email blasts of unvarnished truth from Bob Lefsetz each day – from this morning’s note: Oldsters are about yesterday. Youngsters are about today. Documenting your entire life history, building a timeline, a shrine to yourself, so that the people you grew up with will be impressed? That’s for baby boomers. Their…

DealBook on Terminalgate

The true story of how Wall Street’s big banks came to th realization that every one of their desktops contained a baby monitor for reporters to listen in on. From DealBook: Goldman’s public relations chief, Jake Siewert, a former Treasury official, called his counterpart at JPMorgan Chase, Joe Evangelisti, with a simple question: “Do you…

This Week on TRB

Here were the most read posts on TRB this week, in case you missed them: The Paradox of Dumb Money The New R&D: Repurchases and Dividends Defending Warren Buffett Reminder: Shit Gets Better