What We’re Reading – Week of 07/27/2018

Below you will find the articles on economics, investing, and finance that we found most interesting for the week. NB: ($) denotes subscription site.     What happened to Trump’s infrastructure boom? Article via Bloomberg   Google has an entire shadow workforce of contract employees. Article via Bloomberg   America is running out of family […]

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What We’re Reading – Week of 07/20/2018

Below you will find the articles on economics, investing, and finance that we found most interesting for the week. NB: ($) denotes subscription site.   What exactly will people do with the worn out batteries from electric vehicles? Article via Bloomberg   Health insurers are vacuuming up social media details that could raise your rates. […]

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What We’re Reading – Week of 07/06/2018

Below you will find the articles on economics, investing, and finance that we found most interesting for the week. NB: ($) denotes subscription site.     The U.S. isn’t the only place China tries to steal trade secrets from; Taiwan is another target. Article via Wall Street Journal ($)   How Michael Dell’s financial engineering […]

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What We’re Reading – Week of 06/29/2018

Below you will find the articles on economics, investing, and finance that we found most interesting for the week. NB: ($) denotes subscription site.    As the trade war gets going the yield curve keeps flattening. Article via Bloomberg   High yield bonds have outperformed this year as many issuers benefit from a robust U.S. […]

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What We’re Reading – Week of 06/22/2018

Below you will find the articles on economics, investing, and finance that we found most interesting for the week. NB: ($) denotes subscription site.     Is it crunch time for highly leveraged companies? Article via Financial Times ($)   Peak oil used to mean peak supply; now it means peak demand. Article via Financial […]

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What We’re Reading – Week of 06/15/2018

Below you will find the articles on economics, investing, and finance that we found most interesting for the week. NB: ($) denotes subscription site.     Even the mighty Cargill has to adapt to changing technology. Article via Bloomberg   Quant king D.E. Shaw turns his computers to drug discovery. Article via Bloomberg   In […]

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What We’re Reading – Week of 06/01/2018

Below you will find the articles on economics, investing, and finance that we found most interesting for the week. NB: ($) denotes subscription site.     Food companies change skippers as they struggle with slowing growth. Article via Wall Street Journal ($)   Howard Marks says private equity is overpaying for deals and their standards […]

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What We’re Reading – Week of 05/25/2018

Below you will find the articles on economics, investing, and finance that we found most interesting for the week. NB: ($) denotes subscription site.   Artificial Intelligence is poised to revolutionize medicine. Article via Wall Street Journal ($)   Quants controlling 20% of the stock market puzzle over where we are in the cycle. Article […]

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What We’re Reading – Week of 05/18/2018

Below you will find the articles on economics, investing, and finance that we found most interesting for the week. NB: ($) denotes subscription site.     Can Paul Jacobs pull off the largest technology leveraged buyout in history? Article via The Financial Times ($)   Robots are changing manufacturing, but more automation isn’t always better.  […]

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What We’re Reading – Week of 05/11/2018

Below you will find the articles on economics, investing, and finance that we found most interesting for the week. NB: ($) denotes subscription site.     Garry Kasparov says not to fear being replaced by intelligent machines (even though IBM’s Deep Blue beat him at chess). Article via Wall Street Journal ($)   Amazon isn’t […]

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