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Quote of the Day
"My website has my words, my interviews, my photos, and my identity — what it doesn't have, as far as I’m concerned, is "content."
(Om Malik)
Markets
- Where the current bull market stands, relative to history. (wsj.com)
- How the market news cycle works these days. (dashofinsight.com)
Crypto
- Facebook's ($FB) crypto-venture, Libra, does not lack for high profile backers. (theblockcrypto.com)
- Why Facebook's initiative has a good chance of succeeding. (howardlindzon.com)
- The best argument for Bitcoin is that is should already be dead. (thestreet.com)
Finance
- The world has too many "zombie companies." (nytimes.com)
- Mergers-of-equals are never truly equal. (wsj.com)
Global
DNA
- A profile of 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki. (forbes.com)
- Read this before sending your DNA off to some testing company. (nytimes.com)
- Police are increasingly turning to "genetic genealogy" to apprehend criminals. (nytimes.com)
Policy
- Tim Harford, "The more the US seeks to coerce others through its privileged position in banking and the internet, the greater the incentive to develop alternatives that cut the US out of the loop..." (ft.com)
- A slowdown in construction has helped drive US growth lower for decades. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Social Security is a political crisis, not an economic one. (theweek.com)
Economy
- A succinct summary of the week's economic events. (ritholtz.com)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks this week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: nudged to death. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Put as many money decisions on autopilot that you can. (abnormalreturns.com)
