Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at the growing industry that tries to combat anxiety.
Finance
- The financial markets and poker markets are getting more efficient over time. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Private equity are the new banks. (ft.com)
- Jim Chanos' "Kynikos is the lone short-selling hedge fund of any size — and the only one that that has been in business since 1985." (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Business lessons from Steve Martin's movie "The Jerk." (25iq.com)
Non-finance
- Children born today will have to reinvent themselves over and over again. (medium.com)
- Can randomized controlled trials be used to test the effectiveness of anti-poverty measures? (aeon.co)
- How RSS lost out to social networks. (twobithistory.org)
- The story of the launch that saved SpaceX. (arstechnica.com)
- How one UK clinic is successfully treating insomnia. (theguardian.com)
- Suicide hotlines work: one woman's story. (qz.com)
- A story that will remind you of the power of journalism. (golfdigest.com)
- An oral history of the movie "Rounders." (theringer.com)