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No Alarms and No Surprises? What Lyft’s Slump Tells Us About Modern Capitalism
In this week's column, John McDonnell's former advisor, James Meadway, scratches the surface of the current tech bubble. To help us make sense of it all, he takes us through the weird economics of networks and the even weirder economics of the last ten years.