Stocktoberfest East 2018 is coming to NYC on April 25th. There is a great lineup of speakers and Howard Lindzon has $100 discount codes for the taking. Don’t miss it.
Quote of the Day
"Millennials are having babies and buying houses. It was always a lie that they wouldn’t – remaining childless, living in cities like Snake People and prioritizing hot yoga sessions and artisanal oatmeal cups."
(Josh Brown)
Markets
- The case for European stocks vs. US stocks (themacrotourist.com)
- Emerging markets are showing positive relative strength. (allstarcharts.com)
- Cash is no longer trash. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
Crypto
- Tax laws around cryptocurrency are not exactly straightforward. (nytimes.com)
- A new cryptocurrency backed by some big names, Saga, aims to be "useful as a unit of account and a means of exchange, rather than a tool of pure speculation." (qz.com)
- The company behind CryptoKitties just raised $12 million in venture capital. (fortune.com)
- Facebook's ($FB) data breach was the biggest ever. (medium.com)
- The biggest problem with Facebook ($FB) doesn't have anything to do with data. (vox.com)
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Finance
Global
- Naspers $34 million investment in Tencent is now worth roughly $175 billion. (bloomberg.com)
- The share price of the Swiss National Bank is up 6x since 2016. (wsj.com)
- Michelle Davis, "Insider trading is rife in the $400 billion Mexican stock market -- and almost everyone knows it." (bloomberg.com)
Economy
- Weekly initial unemployment claims are still at low historical levels. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- On the risk that Trump packs the Fed with doves. (macromon.wordpress.com)
- Where Americans are moving. (wsj.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Startup links: a bifurcated environment. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Our attention is all we have. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Wednesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Personal finance links: expensive travel teams. (abnormalreturns.com)
Work
- How to manage a creative culture. Lessons from Ed Catmull's "Creativity Inc." (thereformedbroker.com)
- There are three big motivators at work: career, community and cause. (hbr.org)
- Too many organizations sap employees of creativity and sense of purpose. (ft.com)
- On the difference between speed and velocity and why it matters on how you organize your work. (fs.blog)
- On the importance of trying new things. (work.qz.com)
- Some accidental career guidance. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
