20200430 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

The War on Coffee: The history of caffeine and capitalism can get surprisingly heated. (New Yorker)

Digital fashion surges in a sales downturn (Vogue)

“A Darwinian Moment”: The Coronavirus Is Blowing Up the Media Landscape (Vanity Fair)

Americans Are Largely Unimpressed With Trump’s Handling Of The Coronavirus Pandemic (FiveThirtyEight)

A single Trump tweet sums up his media strategy: Confusion (Vox)

Biden says he thinks Trump will try to delay the presidential election (CNN)

What Negative Prices Tell Us About the Future (Wall Street Journal)  

The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities (The Atlantic)

Investors baffled by soaring stocks in ‘monster’ depression (Financial Times)

Tools to Help You Keep Your Distance as More People Go Outside (Wall Street Journal)

Esports and the Dangers of Serving at the Pleasure of a King (Matthew Ball)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

 

 

20200423 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

The Pandemic will kill many directly, but the effort to fight it will incur a huge toll on other aspects of our health and well-being (Scientific American)

CIO Roundtable: Secrets to Building an Effective Team (CIO)

The ‘Undertaker Of Silicon Valley’ Stays Busy As Startups Lay Off Thousands (NPR)

The Death of the Department Store: ‘Very Few Are Likely to Survive’ (New York Times)

How Responsible Is The Media for Misinformation? (FiveThirtyEight)

Meticulous and Orderly, Germany Can Handle a Pandemic (Bloomberg)

Michael Jordan docuseries ‘The Last Dance’ is more than a TV show. It’s a cultural event (Los Angeles Times)

The Food Expiration Dates You Should Actually Follow (New York Times)

Gilead data suggests coronavirus patients are responding to treatment (Stat)

‘The Managers of These Companies Are Corporate Sociopaths’ (Institutional Investor)

Donald Trump’s Greatest Escape (Politico)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20200416 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

This is the end of the office as we know it. (Vox)

Capitalists or Cronyists? (No Mercy / No Malice)

Its Not Capitalism, its Crony Capitalism (The Big Picture)

This Market Is Made For Warren Buffett. Why Has He Gone Quiet? (Barron’s)

Apple and Google want to turn your phone into a Covid-tracking machine (Vox)

Coronavirus Case Counts Are Meaningless. Unless you know something about testing. And even then, it gets complicated. (FiveThirtyEight)

The Best-Case Scenario for Coronavirus Is That It’s Way More Infectious Than We Think. (New York Magazine)

The Million-Dollar Scammer and His Many Mormon Marks (Narratively)

CIO Roundtable: How Top Asset Allocators are Dealing with Today’s Volatile Market (Chief Investment Officer)

Your Internet is working. Thank these Cold War-era pioneers who designed it to handle almost anything (Washington Post)

Obama’s Ebola Czar on What Strong Federal Response Looks Like (Wired)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM
 

20200409 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

Apple, Amazon, and Common Enemies (Stratechery)

Misinfo Watch: How the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory tore through the internet (Wired)

The Solar Industry Was Poised for a Strong Year, But Now Demand is Plummeting (Bloomberg)

Why Stress-Baking and Cleaning Make You Less Anxious (Wired)

All mammals poop in 12 seconds (Popular Science)

Bizarre life-forms found thriving in ancient rocks beneath the seafloor (National Geographic)

The Military Knew Years Ago That a Coronavirus Was Coming (The Nation)

Inside the National Security Council, a rising sense of dread (Politico)

Streaming spikes during pandemic lockdown (Axios)

How Shakespeare shaped America’s culture wars: The United States has always looked to Shakespeare to illuminate its politics – and in the polarised age of Donald Trump his work feels as urgent as ever. (New Statesman)

A Forest Submerged 60,000 Years Ago Could Save Your Life One Day (New York Times)

​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

 

 

20200402 Tamim Investment Reading List

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The TAMIM team is always diligently researching, reading and scouring the internet for information and ideas that will shape our investing future. We have decided to compile our list of favourite reads together here each week for your convenience and hopefully education – enjoy the reads and various views.

 

 

Was That the Bottom? (Of Dollars And Data)

China’s Divorce Spike Is a Warning to Rest of Locked-Down World (Businessweek)

The Social-Distancing Culture War Has Begun (The Atlantic)

A Global Conundrum: How to Pause the Economy and Avoid Ruin (Wall Street Journal)

When Should I Rebalance? (Irrelevant Investor)

2020 Presidential Election May Hinge On The Economy — And Coronavirus (FiveThirtyEight)

Dalio: The Changing World Order (Linked In)

The 100 greatest designs of modern times (Fortune)

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly in the Two-Trillion-Dollar Stimulus (New Yorker)

92 Cooking Projects to Keep You Busy and Extremely Well Fed (Bon Appetit)

​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM