My New Year’s Eve morning reads:
• 19 good things that happened in 2019 (Washington Post)
• FT Person of the Year: Satya Nadella (Financial Times)
• 20 Rules for Markets and Investing (Compound)
• 2019: The Year of IPO Disappointment (Wall Street Journal)
• 25 Ideas That Will Shape the 2020s (Fortune)
• Hedge funds record best year since 2013 but still trail market (Financial Times)
• The Decade in Internet Culture, in 34 Funny, Stupid, Genius, Emblematic Posts (New York Magazine)
• The Story of How Humans Came to the Americas Is Constantly Evolving (Smithsonian)
• 8 Ways Restaurants Have Changed in the Past Decade (New York Times)
• Dave Barry’s Year in Review 2019. Impeachment. Brexit. Greenland. Can we say anything good about this year? Nah. (Washington Post)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Bruce Van Saun, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citizens Financial Group. CFG is the bank that (among other things) funds most of the iPhone purchases or leases to consumers.
Gold on Track for Best Year Since 2010
Source: Wall Street Journal