From the authors linkedin: Managing Director and Co-Founder Garage Technology Ve...

dmix on Jan 12, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Interest Rates, Unicorns and What the Fed Means to...

From the authors linkedin:

    Managing Director and Co-Founder
    Garage Technology Ventures

    Harvard University
    AB, History of Science

    Stanford University Graduate School of Business
    MBA, Finance, Economics, Public Management

He seem's to have a sufficient background to support such an analysis.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billreichert

theseatoms on Jan 12, 2016 [–]

Then I'm guessing it's more a matter of his readership's level of finance knowledge. Seems like he's dumbing it down for TC.