Friday links: the siren song of FOMO
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
1 week ago
2 MIN READ
Markets
- A look at the best performing stocks of the past 20 years. (bespokepremium.com)
- The great bond bull market is over. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
Strategy
- No one is immune from investment FOMO. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- How much foreign equity does your target-date fund own? (wsj.com)
Finance
- The ownership base of Berkshire Hathaway ($BRK.A) stock is set to dramatically change. (newsletter.rationalwalk.com)
- What happens to Microstrategy ($MSTR) if Bitcoin were classified as a security? (ft.com)
- BlackRock ($BLK) reportedly has a deal to buy HPS Investment Partners, a private credit manager. (ft.com)
Retail
- How Target ($TGT) lost its shine. (wsj.com)
- Black Friday sales are now more annoying than ever. (economist.com)
- Christmas tree farming is harder than ever. (wsj.com)
Social media
- Australia just voted into law a social media ban for children under the age of 16. (theverge.com)
- Don’t kid yourself, you don’t own your Twitter handle. (axios.com)
- Bluesky posts are getting a lot more engagement. (sherwood.news)
- Elon Musk admits that X throttles links. (wapo.st)
Global
- Why Hong Kong’s real estate market is unlikely to come back. (economist.com)
- London’s 1000 year old meat and fish markets are set to close. (abcnews.go.com)
- Stolen civil service tests in India are a hot commodity. (nytimes.com)
Economy
- The Russian Ruble is tumbling in value. (sherwood.news)
- Five economic reasons to be thankful including ‘Low unemployment claims. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: recycled guests. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: prediction machines. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Wednesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Personal finance links: a boring portfolio. (abnormalreturns.com)
- You can now follow us on Bluesky. (bsky.app)
- Have you signed up for daily e-mail newsletter? Well, you should. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- NPR staff picks for the best books of 2024 including “The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport” by Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg. (apps.npr.org)
- The ten best history books from 2024 including “Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War” by Jon Grinspan. (smithsonianmag.com)
- Some books to read this Winter including “What I Ate in One Year” by Stanley Tucci. (newyorker.com)
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