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Robert Amsterdam
Personal blog · robertamsterdam.compoliticseconomics
Robert Amsterdam's personal blog at robertamsterdam.com covers politics and economics. Since 2010, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-22, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its posts about Bill Browder and his Russia investments. One commenter adds a list of further links on Browder, including a 2007 Amsterdam post, a 2008 NYT article and a Stanford talk.
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What Hacker News says?
Some more links on Bill Browder: Bill Browder at Stanford GSB (2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84MsRuC-1l8 An investment gets trapped in Kremlin’s vise (2008) http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/24/world/europe/24kremlin.htm The savage irony of William Browder (2007) http://www.robertamsterdam.com/2007/06/the_savage_irony_of_w... Bill Browder's Russian Odyssey (2006) http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/bmag/sbsm0611/fe…
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on “Investing in Russia? Better hire body guards and hunker down ”Submitted "The problem with Russia is that it is a relatively easy place to make money" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Tale of Two Empires - Robert Amsterdam as a story · 2 points
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