Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at inroads being made in our understand of Alzheimer’s.
Finance
- Investing lessons from The Dude. (25iq.com)
- Just how big is the hedge fund industry? (winton.com)
- AI is going to invade every corner of Wall Street. (bloomberg.com)
Technology
- Benedict Evans looks at trends for the next ten years in technology. (ben-evans.com)
- YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter need to be proactive (and transparent) about removing abusive content. (stratechery.com)
- How brands use modern-day payola to make their way into online publications. (theoutline.com)
- The story of $200k in Bitcoin lost (and found). (engadget.com)
Economy
- The Great Recession is over, but it had real impacts on society, and we are still dealing with today. (theatlantic.com)
- How Dollar General ($DG) became rural America's go-to store. (wsj.com)
- California's building regulations are a major reasons houses are so expensive. (nytimes.com)
Longform
- In the current age is the office romance dead and buried? (wsj.com)
- Portugal decriminalized most drugs. Guess what happened next? (theguardian.com)
- Why is giving birth so difficult for humans? (theatlantic.com)
- Why are American farmers killing themselves in record numbers? (theguardian.com)
- The story of how Tilman Fertitta purchased the Houston Rockets. (texasmonthly.com)
- 52 (surprising) things learned in 2017. (medium.com)
