Friday links: the risks they’re taking
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
19 hours ago
2 MIN READ
Markets
- How did the ‘Sell America’ trade work out? (etf.com)
- Six simple ways to improve investment performance. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Degeneracy
- The line between gambling and investing has been obliterated. (barrons.com)
- Why younger generations are betting their brains out. (wsj.com)
Prediction markets
- Prediction markets have quickly become dependent on sports. (ft.com)
- The DraftKings Predictions app has launched. (sportico.com)
Fund management
- How the Bluerock Private Real Estate Fund ($BPRE) fell to nearly a 40% discount to NAV. (wsj.com)
- The best and worst new ETFs of 2025. (morningstar.com)
AI
- How many businesses are actually using AI? (agglomerations.substack.com)
- Technology booms rarely go off without a hitch. (econofact.org)
Global
- Brexit: a bad policy, poorly implemented. (ft.com)
- Why China’s population is set to decline. (axios.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: the history of money. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: superintelligence rhetoric. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Why RSS still matters. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- 26 things learned in 2025 including ‘Stablecoins could soon be the biggest buyers of treasury bills (T-bills) in the world.’ (snippet.finance)
- 25 things learned in 2025 including ‘The loudest opinions usually add the least value.’ (spilledcoffee.co)
- 11 of the best things of 2025 including ‘The American Revolution by Ken Burns.’ (readtrung.com)
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