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10 Tuesday AM Reads

My two for Tuesday morning train reads: • The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing (The Atlantic) • Dow 1,000,000 (Barron’s) • How Apple Built An iPhone Came...

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CAA Talent Agency Gets a Big New Investor: DealBook Briefing

Temasek of Singapore is set to take a minority stake in CAA, as it competes to expand globally and into the digital realm....

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Why Learn Esperanto? (Special Feature)

A language invented in the 19th century, and meant to be universal, it never really caught on. So why does a group of Esperantists from around the world gather once a year to celeb...

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DealBook: Facing Fraud Charges in U.S., He Says He Was Abused in Colombia

Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, a former dot-com entrepreneur who is to go on trial in federal court in Manhattan next month, says he has already undergone a harrowing ordeal....

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Class Divide: How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?

Liberals fault the economy for the drop in marriage among the less educated, while conservatives blame changing values. Both may be on to something....

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Uber and the anti-regulations bandwagon

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How Can You Find the Best-Performing Stocks?

So Few Market Winners, So Much Dead Weight Just 4 percent of publicly traded companies account for all of the gains. Bloomberg, September 26, 2017       I was intrigued by Jeff Som...

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Projected Evolution of the SOMA Portfolio and the 10-year Treasury Term Premium Effect

Projected Evolution of the SOMA Portfolio and the 10-year Treasury Term Premium Effect Brian Bonis, Jane Ihrig, Min Wei1 BOARD OF GOVERNORS of the FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM September ...

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Insane News Cycle of Trump’s Presidency

This chart shows POTUS’ priorities and subsequent media coverage during the first presidency:   The insane news cycle of Trump’s presidency in 1 chart Source: Axios   The post Ins...

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Swiss Firm ABB to Buy G.E.’s Industrial Solutions Business for $2.6 Billion

The deal comes as new General Electric chief executive John L. Flannery conducts a review of each of its businesses....

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According To Science, Bond Traders Are Finance’s Most Miserable And Wretched Creatures

New study reveals that most people slinging bonds these days regret the life choices that led them down this sorry path....

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Has The Fed Abandoned Its Reaction Function?

Tim Duy: Has The Fed Abandoned Its Reaction Function?, by Tim Duy: The immediate policy outcomes of the FOMC meeting were largely as expected. Central bankers left interest rates u...

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10 Monday AM Reads

Back to work with our morning train reads: • How Electric Cars Can Create the Biggest Disruption Since iPhone (Bloomberg) • New Highs Should Be Bought, Not Sold (Irrelevant Investo...

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If Someone Hadn’t Traded On Hacked SEC Files, We’d Never Have Known The SEC Was Hacked

Something very weird is going on at the Securities and Exchange Commission....

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Everybody Else Is Reading This

Is Mootness How The Travel Ban Dies? Above The Law Trump’s Big Gamble: Can He […]...

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Unilever to Buy Carver, Korean Cosmetics Company, in Bid for Asian Growth

The $2.7 billion deal highlights the conglomerate’s efforts to expand into fast-growing products like skin care....

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Steve Mnuchin Moves Quickly To Confront Systemic Economic Threat Posed By Football Players Kneeling During Song

The tax plan can wait, this is much more important....

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Links for 09-25-17

Four Rules for the Coming Tax Reform Debate - The New York Times Imperfect Information: Is It For or Against Free Markets? - Tim Taylor Causal Friday: Some Real Effects of the Flin...

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• 17 hours ago

Analysis: Most Stocks Aren’t Good Investments.

The New York Times has an excellent graphic filled with some startling datapoints: Most stocks aren’t good investments. They don’t even beat the paltry returns of one-month Treasur...

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Pain for N.F.L. Partners; German Elections: DealBook Briefing

While many players and owners rebuked President Trump’s comments on protests, ratings declines could mean trouble for broadcasters and sponsors....

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Opening Bell: 9.25.17

Steve Cohen's new fund charges 2.5 percent; Merkel wins election, loses ground; stock pickers coming in from the cold; maybe the teens are still having sex; and more....

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MiB: Quant 3.0 with Matthew Rothman

Matthew Rothman is the head of Global Quantitative Equity Research at Credit Suisse as well as a Senior Lecturer in Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was hired a fe...

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Kicking And Screaming Steve Cohen Being Dragged Back To Hedge Fund Industry

He doesn’t want to return. He has to....

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You Say “eye-RACK,” I Say “ear-ROCK”: TMSIDK Episode 28

Hari Kondabolu (comedian and host of Politically ReActive) is our special guest co-host, with Sean Rameswaram (Radiolab Presents: More Perfect) as real-time fact-checker. Tell Me S...