Crypto MSCI ($MSCI) is reviewing the status of crypto treasury companies in their indices. (barrons.com) Why Strategy ($MSTR) has some many copycats. (coindesk.com) Meta Why Meta ($META) won its case against the FTC. (platformer.news) WhatsApp is...

Books Insights from Ray Madoff’s “The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy.” (crr.bc.edu) Five insights from Walter Isaacson’s new book, “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.”...

Strategy What’s really behind the push to ‘democratize’ alternative investments? (ofdollarsanddata.com) Ten lessons from Warren Buffett including ‘Exhibit humility.’ (morningstar.com) Why being a long term investor is so...

Podcasts Peter Lazaroff talks year-end equity comp issues with John Owens, Managing Partner at Brooklyn Fi. (peterlazaroff.com) Matt Zeigler and Justin Carbonneau talk with Bill Bengen, author of “A Richer Retirement: Supercharging the 4% Rule to...

Regulation Meta ($META) won its antitrust lawsuit concerning WhatsApp and Instagram. (theverge.com) The Federal Reserve is now treating banks with a regulatory light touch. (nytimes.com) Beware the surge in penny stock listings in the U.S. (barrons.com)...

Round-ups A round-up of recent research including ‘The Beige Book’s Value for Forecasting Recessions.’ (alphainacademia.substack.com) A round-up of recent research on market bubbles including ‘Bubble Beliefs.’...

Crypto Bitcoin is having a rough Q4. (sherwood.news) Strategy ($MSTR) just keeps buying more Bitcoin. (barrons.com) Bitcoin-related kidnappings are no joke. (nytimes.com) Fund management This may be the most cynical company in the ETF...

Podcasts Ben Carlson talks with Cullen Roche, founder and CIO of Discipline Funds, about turning client strategies into an ETF. (youtube.com) Barry Ritholtz talks with Kristin Olson, global head of alternatives for wealth at Goldman Sachs...

Markets Most of the time we don’t know the reason for a stock’s move until after the fact. (downtownjoshbrown.com) The bond market is chugging along in 2025. (wsj.com) Berkshire Hathaway A Buffett-less Berkshire Hathaway ($BRK.A) is now a...

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