My midweek morning train reads:
- The Insane Story of How an Early Quant Investor Went Rogue (Institutional Investor)
- Warren Buffett: “Really Successful People Say No to Almost Everything” (Medium)
- Unconventional Mortgages Make a Comeback: Lenders are turning to borrowers with harder-to-document finances, helping drive growth in the kind of home loans panned for its role in housing meltdown (Wall Street Journal)
- Forget the Trade War. China Is Already in Crisis (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Is Spotify’s Model Wiping Out Music’s Middle Class? (the Ringer); see also The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy (Motherboard)
- Business leaders waking up to extreme risks posed by climate change (the Hill)
- A new class of politically mobilized tech employees are trying to save the industry from itself (Recode)
- Inside the Mueller team’s decision to dispute BuzzFeed’s explosive story on Trump and Cohen (Washington Post)
- For the first time, astronomers see the signatures of a newly birthed black hole or neutron star (the Verge)
- Grab and Go: How Sticky Gloves Have Changed Football (New York Times)
What are you reading?
2018 US corporate debt performance chart
Source: Daily Shot Brief
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