Thursdays are all about longform links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at the rise of the ETF.
Companies
- How Nike ($NKE) let Steph Curry go to Under Armour ($UA). (espn.go.com)
- This is no longer Jack Welch's GE ($GE). (bloomberg.com)
- Twitter ($TWTR) turns 10. A talk with Jack Dorsey. (bloomberg.com)
- How Larry Page has re-engineered Google into Alphabet ($GOOGL). (fastcompany.com)
Longform links
- A dozen things learned from Benjamin Franklin about money. (25iq.com)
- Why we are apt to blow our money. (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
- Rome was built, in part, on the back of maritime insurance. (priceonomics.com)
- A story of an investment manager/Ponzi schemer gone missing. (ai-cio.com)
- Meet Russ Roberts on his quest to make economics relevant (and interesting). (priceonomics.com)
- A profile of Andy Grove from Jeffrey Garten's "From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives."* (strategy-business.com)
- Why so many star chefs have a "secret" partner behind the scenes. (eater.com)
- Most of the self-help industry just "reiterates common sense." (newyorker.com)
- People go missing on a shockingly high basis in Alaska every year. (theatlantic.com)
- The origins of the Irish people is under scrutiny. (washingtonpost.com)