Pour yourself a robust mug of freshly ground and brewed Sumatra, settle into your favorite easy chair, and enjoy our longer form weekend reads:
• The More Unique Your Portfolio, The Greater Its Potential (Investor Field Guide)
• The Secret Money Behind ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ (WSJ)
• The Future of Twitter Q&A with Jack Dorsey (Bloomberg) see also How Jeff Bezos Became a Power Beyond Amazon (Fortune)
• The Bribe Factory: The company that corrupted the global oil industry (The Age)
• Maritime Insurance Built Ancient Rome (Priceonomics)
• The VA Isn’t Broken, Yet: Inside the Koch brothers’ campaign to invent a scandal and dismantle the country’s most successful health care system. (Washington Monthly)
• How Trump Hacked The Media (FiveThirtyEight)
• All Hail Comedy’s Takeover of TV (Variety)
• ISIS Built the Machinery of Terror Under Europe’s Gaze (NYT)
• Parrots Are a Lot More Than ‘Pretty Bird’ (Science Times)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Tom Dorsey of Dorsey, Wright & Associates.
Decomposing the Change in the Participation Rate
Source: Brookings
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