Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at two trends American men are dealing with.
Finance
- "This time it's different." Howard Marks gives nine reasons why it is not. (oaktreecapital.com)
- The student loan debt crisis didn't happen overnight. (wsj.com)
Food
- Low coffee prices are forcing farmers to emigrate to the US. (washingtonpost.com)
- Does the math simply work against meat going forward? (ft.com)
Music
- As streaming revenue continues to grow will musicians be able to claw back some of the profits? (pitchfork.com)
- It's hard to measure the impact of a 2008 a fire destroyed a Universal Music warehouse full of original music masters. (nytimes.com)
Book excerpts
- Why it would be a mistake to break up Facebook ($FB). An excerpt from Tyler Cowen's "Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero." (slate.com)
- An excerpt from "McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality" by Ronald Purser. (theguardian.com)
Longreads
- Mary Meeker's 2019 Internet Trends slide deck. (vox.com)
- How did WeWork’s Adam Neumann turn office space with “community” into a $47 billion company? (nymag.com)
- At this point, the space race is a battle among billionaires, not countries. (knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu)
- How American flipped the script on gay rights relatively quickly. (washingtonpost.com)
- What happens when consumers get wise to all the psychological 'nudges' marketers are throwing at them? (behavioralscientist.org)
