My mid-week morning train reads:
• The New Finance Rich List: Step aside, Buffett. Ken Griffin, Jeff Yass, Changpeng Zhao, Dan Gilbert, Uday Kotak and the rest of today’s money moguls are moving fast. (Bloomberg)
• Megatrends: The Longevity Economy:Global demographics are signaling a gray wave over the next decade that could boost consumer spending in key areas. (U.S. News)
• ‘How to Buy Gold’ Hits a Google Record as Crypto Investors Chase World’s Oldest Asset: The old-school precious metal has new allure for a generation seeking a respite from the cryptocurrency roller coaster. (Wall Street Journal)
• Is this a soft landing or the start of a recession? If the economy avoids a recession, it will be in spite of the Fed, not because of it. (Vox)
• There Is Something Very Wrong at Uber: And the CEO’s stunt working as a driver won’t be the thing that fixes it. (Slate)
• Whatever happened to Beyond Meat? Misadventures and category errors at the bleeding veg of innovation. (Financial Times)
• The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World (Next Big Idea Club)
• How the Dutch Mastered Bike Parking at Train Stations: A decade ago, the Netherlands began building a national network of bicycle garages integrated with rail stations. Here’s how that investment has paid off. (CityLab)
• Tucker Carlson was Fox News’s biggest star. Then he became its biggest liability: In that sense, Carlson is something like Donald Trump, who famously called himself a “ratings machine”. You can despise what these men are saying and still have trouble tearing your eyes from their TV presence; they possess a kind of perverse gift, like one bestowed by an evil godmother upon an ill-fated infant in a fairy tale. (The Guardian) see also Fox Fired Its Biggest Star Tucker Carlson, Who Badmouthed Bosses: Lachlan Murdoch made the decision to fire him Friday night Other conservative networks say they’d like to hire him. (Bloomberg)
• Will there be a Millennial Big Chill? Millennials are finally doing OK economically. Will their politics moderate? (Noahpinion)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Brian Hamburger, founder of MarketCounsel and Hamburger Law Firm. He is an entrepreneur, attorney, consultant, and advocate for independent investment advisers, which is a $97 trillion industry. MarketCounsel and Hamburger Law Firm are the leading business & regulatory compliance consultancy to the country’s preeminent entrepreneurial independent investment advisers in the investment and securities industry.
The Myth of the Broke Millennial
Source: The Atlantic
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