Sunday links: catastrophic risks
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
10 months ago
3 MIN READ
Stock market
- What is the best performing stock of all-time? (mebfaber.com)
- The best performing stocks of all-time are not necessarily technology companies. (sherwood.news)
- Even the best companies experience big drawdowns. (magazinebailliegifford.com)
Strategy
- The stock market is always trying to anticipate the next thing. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Dariux Foroux, “The biggest threat to an investor is to stop investing.” (humbledollar.com)
- Lessons from Peter Lynch’s investing career. (quartr.com)
Crowdstrike
- Microsoft ($MSFT) is not known as a security-first operation. (wsj.com)
- Our systems are so complex now that no one can fully understand them. (msn.com)
- An increasingly networked world is at-risk of disruption. (wapo.st)
- The systems outage highlights vulnerabilities for hackers and malevolent state actors. (nytimes.com)
- Christopher Gates talks complexity with Sam Arbesman about his article “What the Microsoft Outage Reveals.” (pod.link)
Cities
- Dror Poleg, “Too many city leaders, landlords, and employers assume that if economic indicators are good, cities will be fine.” (drorpoleg.com)
- How bankruptcy made for a brighter future for Detroit. (axios.com)
Immigration
- Navigating the immigration system is an ongoing challenge for startups. (sfstandard.com)
- The tech industry supports immigration. A potential new administration does not. (axios.com)
- How the International Entrepreneur Rule is supposed to work. (forbes.com)
Elections
- The threat of violence against political leaders is on the rise. (msn.com)
- Should non-residents, think Airbnb owners, be able to vote in local elections? (sherwood.news)
Russia
- WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was wrongfully sentenced by Russia to prison for 16 years. (cbsnews.com)
- Why Russia keeps imprisoning Americans: leverage. (wsj.com)
Economy
- Torsten Sløk, “The bottom line is that daily and weekly data do not show any signs of a drop-off in economic activity.” (apolloacademy.com)
- Can the economy go into recession if household net worth is still rising? (econbrowser.com)
- Protectionism is a recipe for economic disaster. (rogerlowenstein.substack.com)
- What matters for successful disinflation? The Fed’s commitment. (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)
- Why meme stocks and sh*tcoins are the logical outgrowth of the analytics revolution. (abnormalreturns.com)
- A lifetime subscription is anything but. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
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