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Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
3 weeks ago
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Books
- Insights from “The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck” by David Spiegelhalter. (theguardian.com)
- An excerpt from “Father Nature: The Science of Paternal Potential“ by James K. Rilling. (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
Finance
- How do ‘synthetic risk transactions’ or SRTs work? (on.ft.com)
- The 30-year mortgage wasn’t built for climate change. (bloomberg.com)
- How financial professionals are sidestepping the net income investment tax. (propublica.org)
- Humans have been obsessed with gold for millennia. (smithsonianmag.com)
Russia
- The ‘sleeper agent’ trope is common in spy novels, but is a real (Russian) phenomenon. (wsj.com)
- The war in Ukraine has played out in the electromagnetic spectrum. (wired.com)
Longreads
- Undocumented workers are more likely to be put into dangerous workplace situations. (nytimes.com)
- Online fraud is a big business. A visit to a Philippines outpost. (wsj.com)
- Why the energy transition is running in place. (coldeye.earth)
- Autonomous weapon systems are already here. What comes next? (undark.org)
- If you are going to engage in a PR smear campaign, don’t put it in writing. (nytimes.com)
- How much does language shape our thinking? (newyorker.com)
- The dating app backlash is here. (on.ft.com)
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