Sunday links: the continued spend
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
8 hours ago
2 MIN READ
Markets
- Markets just move faster these days. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- The stock market is at all-time highs while consumer sentiment is at all-time lows. (trendlabs.com)
- Hungary’s stock market is having a moment. (ft.com)
- How HALO various industries are. (giftarticle.ft.com)
- Every crisis is different. (humbledollar.com)
Companies
- Is AI a threat to Wix ($WIX)? (fiscal.ai)
- How Quince mastered the supply chain. (bloomberg.com)
- The story of the New York Times ($NYT) is that of adaptation. (quartr.com)
States
- Letting state employees to retire at 55 with full pensions is a recipe for disaster. (allisonschrager.substack.com)
- Localities are increasingly facing budget deficits. (wsj.com)
ICE
- ICE detention facilities are still operating out of sight. (thebulwark.com)
- Medical neglect in ICE detention is not unusual. (newyorker.com)
- Why the administration has cut back on flashy immigration content. (axios.com)
Fiscal sustainability
- How older generations amassed so much political power. (theatlantic.com)
- How fertility affects long term fiscal sustainability. (econofact.org)
Law and order
- How’s FBI Director Kash Patel doing? (theatlantic.com)
- The Trump administration continues to re-write January 6th by vacating convictions. (npr.org)
- Birthright citizenship is related to lower youth crime rates. (marginalrevolution.com)
IRS
- Complicated tax returns are a policy choice. (theatlantic.com)
- The Direct File program worked, which is probably why it was killed. (fortune.com)
Policy
- The story of DOGE is only getting worse in retrospect. (wapo.st)
- Government workers keep receiving religious message from Trump officials. (wired.com)
- Transgender soldiers are sidelined, but still getting paid. (nytimes.com)
- The shutdown of the Kennedy Center is even more depressing than you think. (theatlantic.com)
Conflict
- Can the U.S. ramp up its submarine building? (wsj.com)
- How one-way attack drones have changed warfare. (theconversation.com)
- What Iran learned from the conflict in Ukraine. (ft.com)
Economy
- Why payroll whiplashes keep happening. (stayathomemacro.substack.com)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (economicweekly.substack.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks last week on Abnormal Returns. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
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