20190606 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.

 

 

Inside the Brutal, Petty War Over Donald Trump’s Wikipedia Page (Slate)

Flying cars are almost here, but they don’t look like cars (Economist)

Uber’s Path of Destruction (American Affairs)
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‘The industry’s at risk’: the high price of cheap coffees (Sydney Morning Herald)

Why I Hope to Die at 75 (The Atlantic)

The Most Senseless Environmental Crime of the 20th Century: Fifty years ago, 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace (Pacific Standard)

How the Body’s Trillions of Clocks Keep Time (Quanta)

The “zero waste” people must be stopped: Producing teeny-tiny amounts of garbage is not the pinnacle of environmentally conscious behavior. (The Outline)

It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to? (Washington Post)

The Interstate Is Crumbling. Try Fixing the Section Used by 200,000 Vehicles a Day. Crews reconstructing I-4 through Orlando must contend with traffic, sinkholes, residences. Price to redo 21 miles: $2.3 billion.  (Wall Street Journal)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20190530 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.

 

 

It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to? (Washington Post)​​​

Trump’s feud with Huawei and China could lead to the balkanization of tech (MIT Tech Review)

ARM cuts ties with Huawei, threatening future chip designs (The Verge)
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Streaming’s cancel culture problem (Axios)

When “All In” is the Safest Bet (Medium)

The radical plan to change how Harvard teaches economics (Vox)

Why Leonardo da Vinci’s brilliance endures, 500 years after his death: His creativity and foresight in science, engineering, and the arts continue to surprise and amaze today. (National Geographic)
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How William the Conqueror Paved the Way for Netflix’s Bond Sale (Bloomberg)

Why Are Other Investors So Biased? (Behavioural Investment)

Economics Reinvents Itself Every Few Decades. It’s Happening Now (Bloomberg)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM
 

20190523 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 cognitive scientist explains why humans are so susceptible to fake news and misinformation (Nieman Lab)
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Finland is winning the war on fake news. Other nations want the blueprint (CNN)
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The Michael Milken Project: How did a 70-year-old ex-con barred for life from Wall Street become one of its most respected men? (Institutional Investor)
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1st Space ETF Lifts Off (ETF.com)Top 100 Economics Blogs of 2019 (Intelligent Economist)

The Human Antivenom Project (Outside)

Wellcome Trust investing £80m in snakebite treatment (The Guardian)
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The Pivot: The iPhone is the most successful product of all time. (ASYMCO)

‘Get Scavino in here’: Trump’s Twitter guru is the ultimate insider (Politico)

Cars will change more in the next decade than they have in the past century (The Conversation)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

 

 

20190516 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.

 

 

Importers pay 100 percent of the accounting costs of trade tariffs, which are passed on to the consumer. The economic costs of tariffs are a bit more difficult to unpack (Global Macro Monitor)
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The World’s Biggest Electric Vehicle Company Looks Nothing Like Tesla (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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As the World Fractures, Asset Allocators Are Doing… Nothing. Are They Insane? A peek inside the psyche of today’s most important investors.  (Institutional Investor)
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4.7 percent annualized versus 8.5 percent: 10-year returns no longer include the 2007-2009 bear market, making investment returns look much better (New York Times)Jumia’s rise exposes challenges of online shopping in Africa (Financial Times)

How golf explains Trump. Seriously. (Vox)
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How Much of the Internet Is Fake? (New York Magazine)
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Upfront 2019: TV Advertising Isn’t Dead (Yet) (Variety)

Our first instinct is far too often wrong (Financial Times)

​Is Ambition Overrated? (Esquire)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20190509 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 the Kleiner Perkins Empire Fell (Fortune)

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The Triple Jeopardy of a Chinese Math Prodigy: A secretive hedge fund used the British court system to punish an IP thief‚ even though he was already in jail. (Bloomberg Businessweek)
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From Gentrification to Decline: How Neighborhoods Really Change (City Lab)
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How The Citizenship Question Could Break The Census (FiveThirtyEight)

How angry pilots got the Navy to stop dismissing UFO sightings  (Washington Post)

Michelin restaurants and fabulous wines: Inside the secret team dinners that have built the Spurs’ dynasty. (ESPN)
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A Vision of the Dark Future of Advertising (OneZero)
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Chinese companies face surging write-offs: After a global investment spree, impairments weigh on tech and energy companies (Nikkei Asian Review)

8 Reasons Why It’s So Hard to Really Change Your Behavior   (Psychology Today)

Tech’s raid on the banks (The Economist)
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​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM