20180614 Tamim Investment Research List

The TAMIPictureM 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.

 

E-Commerce Might Help Solve the Mystery of Low Inflation (New York Times)​​

Why a Decline in Insects Should Bug You (Wall Street Journal)

Climate Change Can Be Stopped by Turning Air Into Gasoline (The Atlantic)

Piece by Piece, a Factory-Made Answer for a Housing Squeeze (New York Times)​​​

What Time Feels Like When You’re Improvising (Nautilus)
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Merkel on EU reform: a decryption (Jacques Delors Institut)
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Study: Honey bees understand nothing (Vox)

Microsoft Just Put a Data Center on the Bottom of the Ocean (Motherboard)


​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20180607 Tamim Investment Research List

The TAMIPictureM 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.

 

Teens are abandoning Facebook in dramatic numbers, study finds (the Guardian)
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Tesla Faces Accelerating Rate of Model 3 Refunds (Second Measure)Big Tesla investors look like firewall for Elon Musk (Reuters)​​​

Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (The Atlantic)
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The Wild Ride Of Zoox: Inside the robo-taxi startup’s bold bid to beat Waymo, Uber and GM. (Forbes)
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Experience is Overrated (A Wealth of Common Sense)
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Why is Elon Musk raging at “big media”? Because he’s finally being called on his tall tales. (Vox)

Election polls sometimes get it wrong — but they’re about as accurate as they’ve always been. (FiveThirtyEight)

Crypto’s most devout believers are suffering a crisis of faith (Alphaville)


​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20180531 Tamim Investment Research List

The TAMIPictureM 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.

 

‘Mustang Means Freedom’: Why Ford Is Saving an American Icon (New York Times)
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Your Smartphone Is the Best Computer You Own (Wall Street Journal)
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The Jaguar Is Made for the Age of Humans: face-to-face with the cat deep in the Amazon jungle, left with a new understanding of its surprising resilience to poaching and habitat loss (The Atlantic)
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Is it really a Leonardo? Forensics can’t be sure. Provenance can be fudged. This is why the expert eye still rules the game of art authentication (Aeon)
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There is only one gun store in all of Mexico. So why is gun violence soaring? (LA Times)
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Loss aversion can cause investors to make ultra-conservative decisions. (Marketwatch)

Gates: Facebook isn’t a platform. A platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it exceeds the value of the company that creates it (Stratechery)

How China’s 36th-Best Car Company Saved Volvo (Bloomberg)

Corporate tax rates and economic growth since 1947 (Economic Policy Institute)


​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20180524 Tamim Investment Research List

The TAMIPictureM 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 Store Is Not Dead (at Least for Now): Shops that would rather not shut down are adapting, resulting in a somewhat surprising retail renaissance (The Cut)

Computers crack the code of pop-song success: It helps to be ‘happy’ and ‘female’ (Los Angeles Times)
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Humans Are Dumb At Figuring Out How Smart Animals Are (fivethirtyeight)

Rocketmen: The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos (Literary Review)

Trump vs. the “Deep State”How the Administration’s loyalists are quietly reshaping American governance.  (New Yorker)

The Death of Retail Is Greatly Exaggerated (Moody’s)​​The Amazing Psychology of Japanese Train Stations (City Lab)

Banned From Amazon: The Shoppers Who Make Too Many Returns (Wall Street Journal)​

Following a Tuna From Fiji to Brooklyn — on the Blockchain (Wired)


​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM

20180517 Tamim Investment Research List

The TAMIPictureM 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 China’s Tech Revolution Threatens Silicon Valley (the Atlantic)

Satellite data strongly suggests that China, Russia and other authoritarian countries are fudging their GDP reports (Wonkblog)

Uber’s vision of the flying car is here (Recode)

We read every one of the 3,517 Facebook ads bought by Russians. Their dominant strategy: Sowing racial discord (USA Today)

At Nike, Revolt Led by Women Leads to Exodus of Male Executives (New York Times)

​The people who’ll be most hurt by climate swings did the least to cause them, study says (Washington Post)
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Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t. (New York Times)

Google’s New Voice Bot Sounds, Um, Maybe Too Real (NPR)

​Can You Overdose on Happiness? The science and philosophy of deep brain stimulation. (Nautilus)


​Happy investing,

The team at TAMIM