Saturdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s linkfest including a look at how extremist groups have piggybacked on the pandemic to push their pet theories.
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Quote of the Day
"People started this conversation by saying policing is out of control; they're not making the situation better. They have not been reformed."
(Alex S. Vitale author of "The End of Policing")
Profiles
- Chamath Palihapitiya of Social Capital doesn't mind ruffling some feathers. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- The Treasury's point person for the financial bailout still has ties to his family's investment business. (propublica.org)
- Gary Vaynerchuk has changed his tune in quarantine. (menshealth.com)
Covid-19
- The CDC was thought to be the world's premier public health agency. Why did it fail so spectacularly? (nytimes.com)
- A history of SARS-CoV-2, six months in. (nytimes.com)
Finance
- How individual investors were devastated by high leverage instruments they did not understand. (wsj.com)
- The half-life of financial knowledge is pretty low. (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
Longreads
- Ben Thompson, "The Internet is an amoral force — it can effect both positive and negative outcomes — but what cannot be underestimated is how gargantuan a force it is." (stratechery.com)
- How do two people see the same awful thing and one to choose to fight it, the other to embrace it? (theatlantic.com)
- Our physical infrastructure was built with a prior climate regime in place. (vice.com)
- The trends are now all in place for an acceleration of remote work. (city-journal.org)
- The racial wealth gap in America is function of a lot things all adding up. (ofdollarsanddata.com)
- What will college be like this Fall? Different in a lot of ways. (nytimes.com)
- 2020 isn't as bad as 1968, yet. (politico.com)
