During the 08 financial crisis, Mitsubishi wrote a $9 billion CHECK to close an investment in Morgan Stanley over a holiday weekend. The concern was that MS's stock would nosedive if the deal wasn't done before the market opened. The check was apparently enough to legally close the deal on a weekend when it wasn't possible to wire funds.

There's even a picture of the check on MS's Twitter: https://twitter.com/morganstanley/status/1315673245291614208...

I would’ve tried changing that last dot to a comma just to see what happens.

"I’m not surprised, but this makes me feel incredibly sad. I built my first PC using parts from there. I’m going to miss it."

Yeah, same here. I'm not sure if the first PC I built was from Fry's parts but the second+ definitely were. I used to love going there in the late 90s-early 2000s – they put a lot of effort into demo areas/displays back then and the selection was unbeatable, especially for components and things that Best Buy wouldn't (and doesn't) even bother with. I get that paying retail rents to stock $2 patch cables doesn't work these days but I will miss it.

I would have paid a lot of money for that back in the pre-CSS days, assuming it worked well. Was it purely image-based or could it recognize when an area could be rendered without using an image (like a single color zone/etc.)?

You could select a kind for each cell, "None" would not generate an image, and you could select a cell color or html tags. It could also be "Image" or "Mask", with Mask being an inner table within a cell.

You can see this on the main screenshot on the website: http://rangelreale.github.io/htmlbutcher/index.html

Been reading Matt's work since the Dealbreaker days and agree 100%. It's rare to see someone pull off being genuinely funny when (knowledgeably!) writing about financial and legal mechanics.

Matt once wrote about something I was working on. His analysis was way more on-point and technically accurate than that of any other article I read about it. I wanted to email him at the time but like you wasn't exactly in a position to talk to a journalist.

100%. Coda was especially useful if you weren't running your server stack on your local dev machine. Hit "Publish" and all your changed files are pushed up automatically. So much better than hunting through an FTP client every time you make a small edit.

I thought Toughbooks are made by Panasonic? Did they buy the brand from Toshiba at some point?

PSA being down is interesting. I might have thought there would be greater demand for storage units as people clear stuff out of their houses to make room for home offices/gyms/etc.

That said, all the people who've lost jobs or hours are probably not looking to pay $100s/month for an auxiliary junk room.

A rush to liquidity can take down even otherwise sound investments. J.K. Galbraith describes this (as a "Gresham's Law" if memory serves) in his book on the 1929 crash. Highly recommended.

One thing I've learned is that markets are rarely rational. But, with REITs, the real return comes in the form of dividends more than capital appreciation, so if the price has irrationally declined, my return will be greater (I have all of my REIT investments set up with dividend reinvestment). I'm not expecting to liquidate any of these positions any time soon so I can afford to wait for them to do whatever they'll do.

Many airlines use both Airbus and Boeing within the same size class. American, United, and Delta all operate both 737s and A320-class planes.

JetBlue is only A320/321.

They do not – their fiscal year ends 9/30.

Getting [initial][surname] is pretty impressive. My first ID was [initial][surname]7.

My surname is incredibly rare (to the extent i'm probably the only one thats used Bloomberg) and my initial is 1-2% in the regions where the surname is found!