Sunday links: a rich and deep portfolio
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
1 day ago
3 MIN READ
Markets
- The top 10 companies in the S&P 500 generate over a third of its earnings. (apollo.com)
- Have you checked out China’s stock market recently? (trendlabs.com)
- UK stocks are having a moment. (global.morningstar.com)
Strategy
- Nobody actually earns ‘average’ returns. (tker.co)
- Successful investing is a trade off between ‘cynicism and naive exuberance.’ (contessacapitaladvisors.com)
- Why hedge fund managers are so often bearish in public. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Fund management
- How securities lending helps ETF investors. (etf.com)
- Zero management fee hedge funds sound good, in theory. (cashandcarried.substack.com)
- How is Vanguard Investor Choice working out? (riabiz.com)
Prediction markets
- FanDuel and DraftKings are pushing further into prediction markets. (frontofficesports.com)
- What to make of the pause on prediction market ETFs. (cnbc.com)
Companies
- How did AST SpaceMobile ($ASTS) garner a $25 billion valuation? (bloomberg.com)
- Google’s ($GOOGL) free cash flow could fall to zero next year. (asymco.com)
- Markel ($MKL) has attracted an activist investor. (barrons.com)
- Are airlines out of profit levers to pull? (readtrung.com)
Conflicts of interest
- The Trump family is finding new ways to invest in companies that contract with the federal government. (ft.com)
- Not surprisingly the company that is painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has a Trump connection. (nytimes.com)
ICE
- ICE activity has done little to help native-born workers. (papers.ssrn.com)
- DHS is dropping its fast track training program for new ICE agents. (politico.com)
- ICE keeps detaining this American citizen. (motherjones.com)
Iran
- Just how much the war in Iran costing? It’s likely more than $25 billion. (nytimes.com)
- The war in Iran has uncovered some uncomfortable truths about American power. (theatlantic.com)
- Gulf countries feel abandoned by the U.S. (wsj.com)
- How much is the Iran war actually costing? (newsletter.platypuseconomics.com)
- Iran’s navy is nothing if not resourceful. (giftarticle.ft.com)
Military
- The U.S. military keeps destroying boats in the Caribbean. (nytimes.com)
- Under federal law, military widows lose their family’s survivor benefits if they remarry before age 55. (washingtonpost.com)
Policy
- The 119th Congress has been historically inactive and members are retiring at a rapid pace. (wsj.com)
- The Trump administration is waging a war on public governmental records. (axios.com)
- Trump wants to remake Washington DC in his image. (npr.org)
- Here is a tax that billionaires will actually pay. (theatlantic.com)
Economy
- The labor market is looking better, but inflation worse. (newsletter.mikekonczal.com)
- Why a crackdown on immigrants hasn’t helped native born workers. (axios.com)
- What to make of the national debt debate. (newsletter.platypuseconomics.com)
- Penny wise and pound foolish, skimping on economic data costs a country in the long run. (economist.com)
- A look at the K-shaped economy via spending. (libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (economicweekly.substack.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t confuse something scarce for a novel asset class. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Ezra Klein talks with journalist Julia Belluz about the rise of GLP-1s and the spread of unregulated peptides. (podcasts.apple.com)
- Sean Illing talks with Anna North about the relationship between wellness and conspiracy thinking. (podcasts.apple.com)
- Michael Easter talks with David Epstein, author of “Inside the Box: How Constraints Make us Better.” (twopct.com)
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