Quote of the Day
"Once regulators hold themselves out as the guarantors of stability in such a hair-trigger atmosphere, they have little choice but to intervene."
(Jason Zweig)
Markets
- Ben Carlson, "History is chock-full of panics, crises, crashes, ups, downs and the unexpected." (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Surprises shouldn't be surprising. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
- Energy stocks are now struggling. (allstarcharts.com)
Companies
- Growth in spending on SaaS services is slowing. (tomtunguz.com)
- Why Berkshire Hathaway's ($BRK.A) proxy statement is so short. (rationalwalk.com)
- How Covid changed retail (and restaurants). (axios.com)
Work From Home
- Don't let work from home prevent you from being active. (nytimes.com)
- WFH is helping March Madness viewership. (frontofficesports.com)
- Remote work is allowing workers to duck out in the afternoon to hit the links. (nytimes.com)
Work
- More companies are removing college degree requirements for jobs. (vox.com)
- Pricey child care is keeping many parents out of the work force. (wsj.com)
- The U.S. is facing a structural deficit of workers in the trades. (axios.com)
- These apprenticeships are luring applicants away from four-year colleges. (wsj.com)
- Librarians are getting dragged into the culture wars. (msn.com)
Policy
- Just how 'great' was the 'Great Recession'? (bloomberg.com)
- Red states are in full-blow revolt against their Blue metro areas. (fivethirtyeight.com)
- The pandemic gave us all a taste of car-free streets. (washingtonpost.com)
- Alex Jones is doing all he can to not pay Sandy Hook families. (nytimes.com)
- Medicare Advantage plan decisions are being made using AI. (statnews.com)
- A majority of U.S. gun deaths are due to suicide. (theconversation.com)
Global
- There's no guarantee that Ukrainian children will ever return home. (theconversation.com)
- Why the Anglosphere has much less dense housing. (wsj.com)
Economy
- Are bank failures actually helping the Fed crush inflation? (tker.co)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Why seemingly impossible things happen all the time. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t waste your emotional capital investing out of spite. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
