Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a profile of uber-VC Marc Andreessen.
Finance
- A dozen things learned about investing from Jean Marie Eveillard. (25iq.com)
- Are there investment consultants that add value? (researchpuzzle.com)
- The story of a retired general who became a penny stock promoter. (bloomberg.com)
- Why do economists think they can calculate 'equilibrium' interest rates? (gmo.com)
- Is Warren Buffett a hypocrite? A rebuttal. (brooklyninvestor.blogspot.com)
Not finance
- How Comcast ($CMCSK) lost its regulatory edge. (fortune.com)
- A profile of the rise and (relative) fall of yogurt maker Chobani. (wsj.com)
- Honda is jumping into the small jet market. (wsj.com)
- Lab test errors happen. Good luck finding out. (m.jsonline.com)
- You can't out-ESPN ESPN. (medium.com)
- How a 19th century shipwreck could give Canada control of the Arctic. (bloomberg.com)
- Inside the strange world of hostage survival school. (slate.com)
- An economist read's Marie Kondo's "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up."* (theatlantic.com)