Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the next phase of Chris Rock’s career.
Quote of the Day
"Happiness, contentment and life satisfaction is a single player game."
(The Happy Philosopher)
Investing
- An overview of the investing landscape including the shift from discretionary to systematic and the importance of data. (linkedin.com)
- A dozen lessons learned on finance and business from Ambrose Bierce. (25iq.com)
- The history of farmland investing. (globalaginvesting.com)
Economics
- Homeownership has become an engine of income inequality. (nytimes.com)
- The loneliness of the gig economy. (newyorker.com)
- Jonathan Taplin author of "Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy" on natural monopolies and their political strength. (promarket.org)
America
- How Houston became the most diverse big city in America. (latimes.com)
- Why Americans are obsessed with their lawns. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- Mapping the diversity of the creative class. (citylab.com)
Food
- The EU helped save the North Sea Cod. Brexit may wreck it. (ft.com)
- How corn came to dominate US cropland. (bloomberg.com)
Business
- What business has learned from Clayton Christensen. (newyorker.com)
- The story of Michael Milken's long comeback to prominence. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Why no one wants to pay for newspapers anymore. (stratechery.com)
