Robert Reich is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies. He has served in three national administrations, including as Secretary…
a16z Marketplace 100
The a16z Marketplace 100: 2021 (Andreessen Horowitz) I always find these sorts of Venture-funded lists fascinating. You can get a sense of the new technological trends coming, but also potentially future IPOs and…
10 Monday AM Reads
My back to work morning train WFH reads: • Higher Taxes? Deficit Spending? Why the Stock Market Isn’t Worried. “To some extent, higher taxes are priced into the market. Since Biden was elected, people have…
BBRG: Bull Market Beset by Too Many Misconceptions
Bull Market Beset by Too Many MisconceptionsWhat have we learned in the one year since equities crashed?Bloomberg, March 28, 2021 Last week, I mentioned my frustration at some of the media…
10 Tuesday AM Reads
My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • “Buy and Hold” No More: The Resurgence of Active Trading Conventional wisdom holds that passive trading is the rational investing strategy. Active traders are often portrayed as gambling…
Not a Housing Bubble
Source: Len Keifer Alas, the bubble callers are out and about, this time, calling a new bubble in housing. I will spare you my usual lecture on denominator blindness, and point out this…
How to Get the Most Out of Your…
What is the best way to motivate the financial engineers and quants who work in your firm? If you are Gary Chropuvka, President of hedge fund World Quant, you use the firm’s unique culture to…
Virgin Galactic unveils VSS Imagine spacecraft for suborbital…
Virgin Galactic unveiled its latest spacecraft on Tuesday, the VSS Imagine. It's the first of a new class of vehicles the firm is developing for suborbital space tourism. VSS Imagine will begin testing this summer,…
A year without student loans has meant survival,…
More than one year ago, the federal government announced relief measures for student loan borrowers. Monthly payments were halted and interest rates stopped accruing amid the COVID-19 national emergency. Eight borrowers share with Insider what…