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The cover of Kara Swisher’s new book gives me secondhand embarrassment
I’m judging a book by its cover, and wouldn’t be caught dead with the hardcover.
But the reviews are unsurprisingly glowing:
Kara Swisher takes on the “boy-kings” of big tech in “Burn Book” <Axios>
Kara Swisher once again punctures the puffed-up egos of Silicon Valley <Washington Post>
… except for the NY Times which calls it “underwhelming.”
CNBC Talking Head Jenny Harrington is holding the bag on NYCB losses
Jenny Van Leeuwen Harrington, CEO of Gilman Hill Asset Management and frequent CNBC contributor, owns up to holding on to her NYCB stock, which is in free-fall today and down ~60% over the last week.
Here’s the video:
She calls the management team “arrogant” and excoriates regulators on allowing the merger with Signature Bank.
She claims that she’s reduced it to a small position, but as recently as January, she was calling it “oversold” on social media and acknowledging that her followers had jumped into the position on her recommendation:
Another Tweet the next day saw her sticking by the position and begging “plssss don’t let me regret that statement!”
