20190711 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 Each Country Contributed to the Explosion in Energy Consumption (Bloomberg)

Markets Are Calm, Then Suddenly Go Crazy. Some Investors Think They Know Why. (Wall Street Journal)
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The Internet Is Drowning: Rising seas imperil the delicate web of cables and power stations that control the internet. (National Geographic)

Amazon Isn’t a Monopoly Yet. Just Look at the Stunning Growth of Shopify. (Barron’s)

Only 22% of Searches on Amazon Include a Brand Name (Marketplace Pulse)

Greece Is Over Its Crisis, but Europe Isn’t (The Atlantic)

This psychologist explains why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit (Science)

Why Bugs Deserve Our Respect (Longreads)

Interest Rates Just Keep Falling. Economic Orthodoxy Is Falling With Them. (Upshot)

Spies fear a consulting firm helped hobble U.S. intelligence: Insiders say a multimillion dollar McKinsey-fueled overhaul of the country’s intelligence community has left it less effective (Politico)

​Is McKinsey & Co. the Root of All Evil ? (TBP)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20190704 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.

 

 

A Giant Distraction to the Business of Investing (A Wealth of Common Sense)

How to admit you’re wrong (Vox)There Was Never Anything Wrong With Value (Institutional Investor)A Flaw in Human Judgment (Science Friday)The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. (Our World In Data)A New Bull Market Can’t Start Until Investors Give Up (Wall Street Journal)Copious Corporate Cash May Not Be So Great, After All (Chief Investment Officer)A Warren Buffett Protégée Strikes Out on Her Own  (New York Times)I Beg to Differ (Oaktree Capital)

In Times of Stress, Female Fund Managers Take Less Risk Than Men — For the Same Performance (Institutional Investor)

Elder Millennials Have Less Time for Fun (Bloomberg)

​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

 

20190627 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 Often-Ignored Problem with Buying Art as an Investment (Artsy)

The Malls Get Mauled: Will Retail Real Estate Recover? (CIO)

Welcome to the Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Bloomberg)
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Bias bias: the inclination to accuse people of bias (Unz Review)

Why Leonardo da Vinci continues to fascinate the modern world (World Economic Forum)

Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think (The Atlantic)

The war to free science (Vox)

Humans cannot bear too much reality, have evolved a method of coping with all this complexity: we lie to ourselves about how much we understand (New Statesman)

How Green Is My Bond? (CIO)

Slack: A short history (Andreessen Horowitz)

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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

 

20190620 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.

 

 

Saving the Planet With Electric Cars Means Strangling This Desert: Mining lithium and copper to supply the battery boom and fight climate change is wrecking a fragile ecosystem in Chile. (Bloomberg)

Buyout Firms Are Gorging on Credit. This Investor Has Concerns (Institutional Investor)

A cognitive scientist explains why humans are so susceptible to fake news and misinformation (Nieman Lab)
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The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution: Society figured out how to manage the waste produced by the Industrial Revolution. We must do the same thing with the Internet today. (Washington Monthly)

The Self-Destruction of American Power (Foreign Affairs)

Hong Kong Is On the Frontlines of a Global Battle For Freedom (Time)

The Rate Cut the Economy Doesn’t Need, but the Markets Desperately Want (Barron’s)

Why Japan isn’t afraid of robots (Financial Times)

Calpers’ Dilemma: Save the World or Make Money? (Wall Street Journal)

​Fund Managers Are More Moral Than You’d Think (Bloomberg)

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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20190613 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.

 

Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry (The Verge)

Some Real News About Fake News: It’s not just making people believe false things—a new study suggests it’s also making them less likely to consume or accept information. (The Atlantic)

Satoshi Nakamoto Could Be Criminal Mastermind Paul Le Roux (Bitcoin News)
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The World Is Full of Innovation More Important Than Ad Algorithms (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Michelin’s ingenious new tires ensure you’ll never get a flat again (Fast Company)

The End of Teen America’s Romance With Cars (American Spectator)

The Coalition Out to Kill Tech as We Know It (The Atlantic)

Stop Saying That Correlation Does Not Imply Causation (Slate)

Amazon Prime Video is full of dodgy documentaries pushing dangerous cancer ‘cures’ (Wired)

This Deepfake of Mark Zuckerberg Tests Facebook’s Fake Video Policies (Vice)

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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM