Richard Yamarone, who created the Bloomberg economics newsletter seven years ago, died last month at the age of 55.
Ted Merz of Bloomberg, who hired Yamarone, writes, “When he started at Bloomberg he claimed he already knew 745 people at the company. It seemed preposterous, but Richard had a spreadsheet to prove it.
“He worked hard. He would get to the office by 4 a.m. to prepare the publication. He’d work a long day and then host a dinner for his friends, some of the best known economists on the Street.
“He treated the office like his living room. We sat close together. He would turn up the ringer on his phone because he was hard of hearing. When a call would come in, he would yell: ‘Don’t get up. It’s probably for me.’
“I’m not sure why that was so funny, but it was. And all the more so because he would do it day after day.
“Periodically Mike Bloomberg would send out an email to the entire company and Rich would jump out of his chair, exclaiming: ‘Mike is messaging me! Mike is messaging me!'”
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