SoftBank to write down WeWork by $6.6B, compounding portfolio misery

Re:SoftBank to write down WeWork by $6.6B, compounding portf... by adreamingsoul on Thursday April 30, 2020 @05:24AM (#23029003)

"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money." -- Everett Dirksen

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Re:SoftBank to write down WeWork by $6.6B, compounding portf... by samizdis on Thursday April 30, 2020 @08:25AM (#23030076)

There is dispute as to whether Dirksen said that [1]. According to Wikiquote, when asked whether he had said it, Dirksen said: "Oh, I never said that. A newspaper fella misquoted me once, and I thought it sounded so good that I never bothered to deny it."

[1] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Everett_Dirksen#Misattributed

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Re:SoftBank to write down WeWork by $6.6B, compounding portf... by adreamingsoul on Friday May 01, 2020 @07:30AM (#23041007)

Fascinating! thanks for sharing.

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Re:SoftBank to write down WeWork by $6.6B, compounding portf... by onetimemanytime on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:29AM (#23030552)

"A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking Saudi and other dumb investor's money." -- Unknown

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