20190926 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.

 

 

Facebook to Buy Startup for Controlling Computers With Your Mind (Bloomberg)

​Facebook’s Latest Purchase Gets Inside Users’ Heads—Literally (Wired)

Artificial Intelligence Takes On Earthquake Prediction (Quanta Magazine)

Can a Burger Help Solve Climate Change? Eating meat creates huge environmental costs. Impossible Foods thinks it has a solution. (New Yorker)
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Is We Work a Fraud? (Medium)

The race to create a perfect lie detector – and the dangers of succeeding (The Guardian)

Martin Wolf: Why rigged capitalism is damaging liberal democracy (Financial Times)

A rare look inside Samsung’s secretive ideas lab (CNN)

A New Kind of Family Office: Two San Francisco-based venture capitalists have launched a multifamily office for the newly wealthy that values your personal brand as part of your net worth. (Worth)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM
 

20190919 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 Anthropocene: Why Investors Should Pay Attention to This Geological Discussion (Worth)

China is about to launch its own digital currency. Here’s what we know so far. (MIT Technology Review)

Irish Teenager Invents Magnetic Liquid Trap That Can Remove 90% of Microplastics From Water (Return to Now)

How the plastic bottle went from miracle container to hated garbage (National Geographic)

The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined (Quanta Magazine)

A generation of economists helped get us into this mess. A new generation can get us out. (Vox)

Value Finally Replaces Growth. But Will This Hate Rotation Last? (Barron’s)

What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves: In the era of Big Data, we’ve come to believe that, with enough information, human behavior is predictable. But number crunching can lead us perilously wrong (New Yorker)

Hello From the Year 2050. We Avoided the Worst of Climate Change — But Everything Is Different (Time)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM
 

20190912 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.

 

 

 Are We Near a Recession? The Godfather of the Inverted Yield Curve Says It’s ‘Code Red’ (Fortune)

Your Expense Report Is a Window Into Your Soul: How you handle the costs you run up on company time can hint at whether your job is making you happy, or even your sense of ethics and fairness. (WSJ)

Is One of the World’s Biggest Lawsuits Built on a Sham? A dying Irishman went for one last big score in Nigeria. The project failed, but a London tribunal says his company’s owed $9 billion and counting. (Bloomberg Businessweek)

What Is a Tech Company? (Stratechery)

Is Science Political? Many take the separation between science and politics for granted, but this view of science has its own political history: it was developed, in part, as an anti-communist tool of the Cold War. (Boston Review)

How Misinformation Spreads—and Why We Trust It (Scientific American)

Debunking the Silly “Passive is a Bubble” Myth (A Wealth of Common Sense)

Old messages, new memes: Beijing’s propaganda playbook on the Hong Kong protests (Financial Times)

That Assault Weapon Ban? It Really Did Work (New York Times)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20190905 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.

 

How ETFs Swallowed the Stock Market (Wall Street Journal)

Shiller: The Trump Narrative and the Next Recession (Project Syndicate)

The Limits of Private Action: What the Past 40 Years Taught Us About the Perils of Unregulated Markets (ProMarket)

A trip to Mars could cause brain damage. Here’s how NASA aims to protect astronauts. (NBC News)

Survival of the Friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break. (Nautilus)

Noise: How to Overcome the High, Hidden Cost of Inconsistent Decision Making (Harvard Business Review)

When LeBron James chose Nike in 2003, he gave up $28 million — it could end up making him $1 billion (Marketwatch)

‘Change Through Trade Has Failed’: China Pressures Foreign Companies to Fall In Line on Protests (Spiegel)

Amazon Isn’t Looming as an Automatic World Conqueror (Bloomberg)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

 

 

20190829 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.

 

 

Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular? (The Atlantic)

It Is Criminal That We Aren’t Borrowing Trillions to Fix the Country Right Now (Slate)

Insiders are selling stock like it’s 2007 (CNN)

Pension World Reels From ‘Financial Vandalism’ of Falling Yields (Bloomberg)

The Danger of Plunging Interest Rates and Delayed Buying (Businessweek)

The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials (The Atlantic)

Less than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click (SparkToro)

An expert on human blind spots gives advice on how to think (Vox)

The Barbaric History of Sugar in America: The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery. (New York Times)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM