Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at how hedge funds get their way in Washington.
Quote of the Day
"All too often, we don’t pick up good ideas willingly. We grasp for them, in desperation, only when we have no choice."
(Tim Harford)
Investing
- Some AQR guys sat down for an extended discussion with Ed Thorp. (aqr.com)
- The Winter 2018 edition of Columbia University's "Graham and Doddsville" newsletter. (marketfolly.com)
- For a company with so much power, Institutional Shareholder Services is quite secretive. (institutionalinvestor.com)
Non-finance
- How GE ($GE) went from the #1 company on the planet to a basket case. (bloomberg.com)
- How self-driving trucks could actually increase the number of trucking jobs. (theatlantic.com)
- The long story of a WSJ writer trying to offload a house purchased before the housing crisis. (wsj.com)
- Inside the big business of buying and selling fake Twitter ($TWTR) followers. (nytimes.com)
- Lunch with J.D. Vance author of "Hillbilly Elegy" now that he is firmly ensconced in middle America. (ft.com)
- The Farmer's Almanac is the oldest, continuous publication in the US. (topic.com)
- Americans have a fair amount of InstaPot anxiety. (wsj.com)
- A look inside the weird world of professional drone racing. (newyorker.com)
