Mandrake

The artless manner of the telling lent verisimilitude to the tale.

[Mandrake @essendine_]

京の万緑。

[Mandrake @essendine_]

要写一下某幅板画的背景，再不写忘了。

[Mandrake @essendine_]

信托法其实有机制可以解决语言和文化的传承问题，但做父母的真的想通过conditional trust把子孙变成盛满自己ego的容器吗？

[snowboat @snowboat84]

https://t.co/BmLLkBtpdR

[Mandrake @essendine_]

One of my favourite paintings out of the Rijksmuseum:

[Adam Y. Liu @AdamYLiu1]

My first book, Authoritarian Markets: The Politics of China’s Banking Explosion (Cornell University Press), is officially out today!

It explores the political foundations of China’s banking market development—and how that development both drove the rapid growth of the Chinese economy in the past three decades and incubated its deeply intertwined challenges: shadow banking, the housing bubble, and local government debt.

The China story isn’t sui generis—not once you see how contract-intensive markets expand in other autocracies. Authoritarian states produce authoritarian markets: markets with three coherent properties, the three “Rs”—rationed entry, reflective competition, and rigged regulation. I won’t give away details but post the epigraph to each chapter below :)

I hope you find the book readable, rigorous, and refreshing—a different set of three Rs, but ones I hope characterize the book as much as its argument.

Finally—here’s a promo code (40% off!): 09EXP40.

https://t.co/qe0SMQnLlO

p.s. So many teachers and friends to thank---see my acknowledgement :)

[Mandrake @essendine_]

凌晨饿得睡不着，想着自己做的虾油和腌辣椒蘸料，决定起来蒸个烧卖吃。

[Mandrake @essendine_]

@fangboya @mdfujita 虽然日本人叫唐様，但其实是宋朝传入镰仓日本的风格。天章寺也是宋代的建筑。

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Jane Birkin photographed by Jean-Claude Deutsch, 1971

[Mandrake @essendine_]

@zhaoxo OP said: "基本没有受到证监会的大的制裁"; 30 mil is one of the biggest individual civil enforcement actions ever. Who said anything about criminal charges which the SEC has no jurisdiction over?

[Mandrake @essendine_]

SEC让他赔了三千多万还算没被制裁？

[硅谷王川 Chuan @Svwang1]

安然 2001年时因为把很多债务隐藏在资本负债表之外而破产。安然破产时最大的赢家是一位名叫白露龙的 1947年出生于南京的高管。白先生性格内向，寡言少语，但下班后喜欢去休斯顿的脱衣舞厅。他出手大方，后来把一个脱衣舞娘的肚子搞大，老婆和他闹离婚。因为离婚官司，白先生被迫卖了两点五亿美元的股票，五个月后安然就破产了。因为白先生卖股票的直接原因是离婚，不算内幕交易，所以后来基本没有受到证监会的大的制裁。

后来白先生和那个脱衣舞娘结婚，从此过上了幸福的生活。他曾在科罗拉多州的一个山上买了一个大农场，邻居把农场称为 “白山” （Mount Pai)。

[Mandrake @essendine_]

@zhaoxo The SEC does not have criminal jurisdiction. What are you on about?

[Mandrake @essendine_]

As a Lord Denning MR enjoyer, one has to post every Constable's Salisbury Cathedral one sees for Leaf v International Galleries.

[East Asia Forum @east_asia_forum]

Japan's repeated interventions to prop up the yen are treating the symptom while the structural conditions driving its weakness go unaddressed, writes Sayuri Shirai.
https://t.co/C7m2TcWitq

[Mandrake @essendine_]

Not the villainous partnership I expected: https://t.co/fs1K8L8wRy

[Mandrake @essendine_]

飞机改签，去LA要途径卡尔加里，免税店尝了一口本地拿金奖的威士忌，一口气没上来，差点全喷出来。真难喝。

[Mandrake @essendine_]

Late night find: institutional kleptocracy.

[Mandrake @essendine_]

@dispersenttt 可爱小咪。

[Mandrake @essendine_]

翻到一条十年前的note，当时很喜欢Bizet的罗马交响曲，完全记不得了。https://t.co/2etNTdsUnu

[Mandrake @essendine_]

And I'm sure his Lordship stopped reading Cicero after his 400th letter to Atticus.

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

What Lord Macaulay read (in Greek and Latin) over 13 months is more than most professional Classicists now read in their lifetimes.

[Mandrake @essendine_]

@ivanologia 请传授食谱！

[Mandrake @essendine_]

出门遛鸟。