Sunday links: a riskier market
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
3 days ago
3 MIN READ
Markets
- Just how worried should be about market concentration? (fa-mag.com)
- tastytrade is at the forefront of turning retail traders into option traders. (bloomberg.com)
- The past week in the degenerate economy. (howardlindzon.com)
- The stock market needs short sellers. (philbak.substack.com)
Companies
- Palantir ($PLTR) is the big winner of Trump 2.0. (msn.com)
- Can Apple ($AAPL) afford to wait any longer on AI? (spyglass.org)
- An economic moat is not sufficient for success. (flyoverstocks.com)
Finance
- Dealmaking has not taken a pause this Summer. (wsj.com)
- Corporate pension funds are pretty well funded. (apolloacademy.com)
Private credit
- Why private credit is not a systematic risk to the economy. (ft.com)
- Are private credit funds underwriting the data center boom? (noahpinion.blog)
- Barry Ritholtz talks private credit with Erik Hirsch, Co-Chief Executive Officer at Hamilton Lane. (ritholtz.com)
Venture capital
- How the math of a VC fund works. (digitalnative.tech)
- The hardest thing for an investor to do is raise that first fund. (cashandcarried.substack.com)
- When you see companies you funded succeeding out in the wild. (howardlindzon.com)
The BLS
- Sam Ro, “I have no reason to question the integrity of McEntarfer and the work of her colleagues at the BLS.” (tker.co)
- Revisions are a part of collecting economic data. (paulkrugman.substack.com)
- How the BLS works in practice. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Congress has been underfunding the BLS for years. (larrykotlikoff.substack.com)
- Megan McArdle, “Firing the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner won’t improve the U.S. economy.” (wapo.st)
Policy
- ICE has a big pot of taxpayer money to spend. Who is going to benefit? (theatlantic.com)
- The OBBA continues to erode the impact of the estate tax. (crr.bc.edu)
- The government is rapidly taking data series offline. (flowingdata.com)
- Why gut the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) at the State Department? (washingtonpost.com)
- America has stopped promoting democracy. (theatlantic.com)
- There’s (little) no evidence that noncitizens vote. (npr.org)
- Trump is already abusing the notion of Presidential libraries. (newyorker.com)
- Autocrats win when groups engage in ‘anticipatory silence.’ (npr.org)
- A lot of damage being done now, can’t be easily undone. (danieldrezner.substack.com)
Economy
- The market is now pricing in a Fed rate cut in September. (econbrowser.com)
- The ranks of the long-term unemployed are growing. (wsj.com)
- More signs that tariffs are filtering their way into consumer prices. (nytimes.com)
- Young workers are struggling. (papers.ssrn.com)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks this week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- A Q&A with Nick Maggiulli, author of “The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life.” (abnormalreturns.com)
- Don’t miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- 50 life lessons including ‘Happiness is a ghost, but one we’ve chased to the top of the mountain.’ (usefulfictions.substack.com)
- 27 notes on growing older including ‘Let’s be honest: after a certain point – 35? 40? – growing older is psychologically punishing. How could it not be? It involves getting a little bit weaker, stupider and uglier every year.’ (ian-leslie.com)
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