Markets
- How is corporate America maintaining high profit margins? (tker.co)
- The performance of the big tech stocks is a historical anomaly. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Apple
- Horace Dediu, “The iPhone customer is 7.4 times more valuable than the Android customer.” (asymco.com)
- Apple ($AAPL) had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the USB-C for the iPhone. (bloomberg.com)
- The science behind the iPhone screen glass. (readtrung.com)
- Can you merge two Apple IDs? Not easily. (fastcompany.com)
Venture capital
- Why VC-backed startups focused on the ‘creator economy’ have disappointed. (hunterwalk.com)
- VCs are feeling the pressure as exits grind to a halt. (theinformation.com)
Global
- U.S. companies operating in China are stuck between a rock and a hard place. (nytimes.com)
- China is facing a lost economic decade. (economist.com)
- War has not tamed Ukraine’s persistent corruption problems. (nytimes.com)
IRS
- There is no shortage of wealthy people with back taxes owed. (apnews.com)
- Where the IRS is actually spending their additional funding. (theconversation.com)
- Researched show stepped up tax audits more than pay for themselves. (nber.org)
Policy
- Why has Medicare spending, contrary to expectations, flattened out? (nytimes.com)
- If you are a pension chief, set your benchmark so that you can earn a bonus every year, despite middling performance. (wsj.com)
- How to solve the student loan crisis without forgiving debt. (businessinsider.com)
- The U.S. has yet to feel the backlash from widespread gambling legalization. (vox.com)
- Why stadium subsidies still exist. (econofact.org)
Work
- The pandemic hiring boom is over. (wsj.com)
- Have we overestimated the jobs impact of startups? (econbrowser.com)
- Why bosses like paying bonuses vs. actual pay raises. (vox.com)
- Which companies are going get left behind. (thebasispoint.com)
Economy
- Q3 GDP forecasts differ widely. (econbrowser.com)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Public predictions are exhausting. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Charlie Warzel, “We are living in a steaming paradox. As both an entertainment business model and a consumer experience, streaming has become a victim of its own success.” (theatlantic.com)
- This cable company dropped its video services and started offering customers YouTube TV. (hollywoodreporter.com)
