(Best read of the lot) Storytelling Animals – Link here The Stock Market Is Weirdly Calm. Here’s a Theory of Why – Link here This Tiny Arctic Town Loves Visitors Unless They’re Automotive Spies – In the Northern Swedish village of Arjeplog, where automakers test secret prototypes, car photographers are considered a public nuisance – …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 13-May-17Watch: Robot bricklayers are here. Could they replace manual construction workers in India too? – Robotic process automation could lead to a loss of half of the world’s jobs by 2050 – Link here What if You Could Grow a Baby in a Bottle? – Link here A Chicken That Grows Slower and Tastes …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 6-May-17Frank and Steven’s Excellent Corporate-Raiding Adventure – Two law professors tried to mimic big activist hedge funds, investing their retirement savings in a small, languishing public company and trying to shake it up. Here’s what happened – Link here Is It Time to Break Up Google? – Link here Grantham: The Rules Have Changed …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 29-Apr-17The Most Important Lessons – Lesson 1: Know thyself, value investor – Link here Outlook grows dimmer for stock-picking fund managers – Link here The $90 Billion Investor Who’s Out to Fire Wall Street – Link here Lies, Damn Lies, and Financial Statistics – Link here China Is Playing a $9 Trillion Game of …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 15-Apr-17(Must read) – Gambling is a feature of capitalism—not a bug – Link here – some history on finance, its long read if you want to read just ONE thing for the weekend this is it. How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons – The company has undertaken an extraordinary experiment …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 8-Apr-17If there is one brokerage house on street that is on mission of educating market participate at large on investing, its Ambit. This time they did a townhall with Mr. KN Sivasubramanian’s – Ex-CIO, Franklin Templeton and it is nothing short of amazing learning experience that one can ask for. Here is full transcript of …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 25-Mar-17Buffett’s Airlines Conundrum – Link here Global house prices – Link here In Vancouver, home values have risen by 47% in four years; in London they have risen by 54%; and in Auckland the rise has been a whopping 75%. The influence of foreign capital flows on housing markets is being scrutinised, particularly as …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 18-Mar-17The rise of the useless class – Yuval Noah Harari – Link here So what will people do? Art is often said to provide us with our ultimate (and uniquely human) sanctuary. In a world where computers have replaced doctors, drivers, teachers and even landlords, would everyone become an artist? Yet it is hard …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 11-Mar-1724% India’s MPs/MLAs Say They Don’t Need To Pay Tax Or Have No Income – Link here As many as 1,676 (35%) elected representatives declared annual incomes less than Rs 2.5 lakh. Why are Indian engineers so afraid of ‘artificial intelligence’? – Link here – Line that caught my attention “Forget getting people of our …
Read More Read, Learn, Improve – 25-Feb-17The AI Threat Isn’t Skynet. It’s the End of the Middle Class – Link here. The lines that caught my attention “I am less concerned with Terminator scenarios,” MIT economist Andrew McAfee said on the first day at Asilomar. “If current trends continue, people are going to rise up well before the machines do.” …
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