Sunday links: zombie brands
Tadas Viskanta
Abnormal Returns
9 months ago
2 MIN READ
Bonds
- The 10-year Treasury yield dropped 40bp this week. (honest-broker.com)
- Are bonds finally done going down? (allstarcharts.com)
- On the differences between individual bonds and bond funds. (humbledollar.com)
- Why the Fed should be buying mortgage bonds. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Companies
- Berkshire Hathaway ($BRK.A) has sold down a big slug of Apple ($AAPL) stock in favor of cash. (marketwatch.com)
- How Twitch could turn into another Amazon ($AMZN) ‘zombie’ brand. (sherwood.news)
- Should a startup ever spend $1.8 million on a URL? (spyglass.org)
Work
- How a national retirement savings plan would work. (morningstar.com)
- Paid sick leave mandates help employees better maintain work-life balance. (papers.ssrn.com)
- How McDonalds’ ($MCD) wages vary by geography. (papers.ssrn.com)
Taxes
- No matter who is President in 2025, taxes will be at the top of the agenda. (nytimes.com)
- Opportunity Zones have largely been a disappointment. (nytimes.com)
Politics
- The case for ranked choice voting. (marginalrevolution.com)
- Beware politicians kowtowing to the crypto crowd. (hamiltonnolan.com)
Regulation
- How the FTC could greatly reduce robocalls and spam texts. (sherwood.news)
- The U.S. is awash with knock-off vapes and the FDA isn’t doing all that much about it. (sherwood.news)
Economy
- The U.S. economy is on shakier ground. (axios.com)
- Cullen Roche, “The Fed is in a real bind now.” (disciplinefunds.com)
- The American consumer is slowing down. (ft.com)
- The labor economy has slowed down to pre-pandemic levels. (employamerica.org)
- Three times the Sahm Rule has triggered. (econbrowser.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)
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