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New European early-stage VC Revent launches with an impact focus, and sights set on a $60M first close Revent — a new European early-stage (pre-seed to series A) venture capital fund with an “impact” focus — is coming out of the gate today, and is poised to reach its target of a €50 million ($60 million) fund, with the first close of that already completed. Focusing on environmental and societal problems, Revent will be looking to fund startups with both “purpose and profit”. Headquartered in Berlin and investing across Europe it will home in on companies in climate tech, health...

Jan 7, 2021 by Morgan Housel The demand for forecasts grows after a surprise. It’s quite an irony. Surprises make you feel like you’re not in control, which is when it feels best to grab the wheel with both hands, listening to those who tell you what happens next despite being blindsided by what just happened. That’s where we are with Covid and the economy. Ten months after the surprise of our lifetimes, everyone wants a clear map of the future. Who wins? Who loses? When will travel recover? Will work be the same? Have we learned our lesson?

Diversification’s downside: resilience has a price More on: Benjamin Roth’s The Great Depression: a diary isn’t the cheeriest of reads. Roth was a lawyer, practising in the 1930s in Youngstown, Ohio – an industrial town that was home to several steel companies.   Booming during the 1920s, it had been badly hit by the Great Depression that began with the financial crash of 1929. Roth’s diary, published in 2009 at the instigation of his son and grandson, meticulously recorded the period from June 1931 to December 1941. Very much an amateur economist, Roth recorded many of the predi...

>> somebody read your book, what do you hope that they take away from it? >> i hope they will take away from it a sense of what a special place arlington is, and the american story. and how it got that way. because we tend to come here today come and if you look at it, it looks finished, it looks complete. but it wasn't that way in the beginning. it evolves from one thing into another thing into another thing. so what i tried to do in my book was to say how did it get to be the place, the national shrine, we know it has today. what was it before? what was it before that? so i tried i...