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🚨🚨🚨 SOFTBANK TAKING CONTROL OF WEWORK DEBACLE 🚨🚨🚨 via @davidfaber

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/21/softbank-to-take-control-of-wework-sources.html

Markets crash every once in a while. Good luck figuring out the cause in advance. 🤷‍♂️🤷 – @rpseawright

Health, wealth and war: what matters for national happiness 🤒🤑💥 – @ritholtz

Money Buys Some Happiness; Health Buys You More

“The combination of inflated prices and overburdened Americans has translated to fewer home sales today than in the year 2000” 🏘 – @axios

https://www.axios.com/real-estate-housing-market-stagnant-6a1dfda5-e508-4281-8af1-1145c9901640.html

Why podcasting will become more like the display ad ecosystem 🎙 – @Digiday

As platforms and ad tech circle, podcasting’s small, beautiful age is drawing to a close

Globally, stocks are acting better than current sentiment about the global economy might imply. 🤔 – @reformedbroker

Global Stocks Starting to Inflect Higher

“Today every company wants to reinvent itself as a tech firm, but they should be careful what they wish for.” 💻📱📡 – @andykessler

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-treadmill-wears-firms-out-11571599552

The average lifespan of S&P 500 companies is expected to keep falling over the next decade 📉 – @axios

https://www.axios.com/sp-500-company-lifespan-6cf2c449-2685-4cd1-acb2-e794d976e152.html

CalPERS Divests From Listed Prison Companies

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1hnk1zz1lm6qx/CalPERS-Divests-From-Listed-Prison-Companies

“Be skeptical. Ask questions. Follow the evidence. Test your conclusions. Rinse. Repeat.” 🔄 – @rpseawright

Getting Better All the Time

“Predicting the future is hard yada, yada, yada but there’s a case to be made that predicting the direction of interest rates is even harder than predicting the direction of the stock market.” 📈📉 – @awealthofcs

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/10/9-questions-im-pondering-at-the-moment/

“Most investors aren’t stupid or irrational. We are, instead, what I like to call “blazy”: busy and lazy.” 😬😴 – @jasonzweigwsj

https://www.wsj.com/articles/time-for-advisers-to-speak-to-us-in-plain-english-11571409934

“Finance is full of companies uncomfortable in their own skins and trying to adopt more fluid identities.” 🏦➡️❓ – @TBraithwaite

https://www.ft.com/content/8b17d9ea-f175-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195

“Combining the systematic investing approach of quants with longer-term, deep-research value investing style is tricky.” 🤓🤖 – @RobinWigg

https://www.ft.com/content/5889bdd2-ee95-11e9-ad1e-4367d8281195

“Fed up with New York, Mr. Icahn says he’s moving his hedge fund to Miami and laying the groundwork to hand it over to his son, Brett.” 🏖🍹 – @WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/carl-icahn-is-nearing-another-landmark-deal-this-time-its-with-his-son-11571457602

“Ultimately, the biggest stock-market decline in modern U.S. history meant pretty much nothing…for the most part, the economy hummed along.” 😲 – John Rekenthaler

https://www.morningstar.com/articles/830630/what-black-monday-taught-us

World’s longest passenger flight – 20 hours NYC to Sydney nonstop – leaves JFK for first time ✈️

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-14/human-guinea-pigs-prepare-for-20-hour-marathon-flights

Netflix was not destined to top Blockbuster: a lot of things had to go right along the way 📀💻 – @michaelbatnick

Netflix Versus Blockbuster

What does the future hold for CFA charterholders? 🤷🤷‍♂️ – @awealthofcs

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/10/what-does-the-future-hold-for-cfa-charterholders/

China’s economy grew at a 6.0% rate in Q3, its lowest rate since 1993! 🇨🇳

https://news.yahoo.com/chinas-quarterly-economy-growth-sinks-021322223.html

48 years after its founding, FedEx is at an inflection point 📦✈️🚚 – @WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fred-smith-created-fedex-now-he-has-to-reinvent-it-11571324050