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The political history of money

by Alex J Pollock | Nov 2, 2022 | The Analyst, zOtherDiversions

A book review. “Those who fail to study the intellectual debates of the past are condemned to repeat them,” is a variation on Santayana’s famous dictum particularly applicable to economics and monetary theory, where ideas cycle along with events. In The Currency...

Why job turnover is so high for Gen Z and Millennials

by Kimberlee Josephson | Nov 1, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Professor

Originally published July 2022. Jonathan Haidt’s latest essay, ‘Why the Past 10 Years of American Life have Been Uniquely Stupid’, calls attention to concerns related to how Gen Z has been raised. According to Haidt (and previously fleshed out in his...

What cockroaches have to do with Wall Street

by Matein Khalid | Oct 31, 2022 | The Fund Manager, zLead Article, zNewsletter

The cockroach theory in Wall Street contends that for every one cockroach you see, there are 100 hidden in the woodwork. We saw four Big Tech cockroaches in this earnings season: Microsoft, Alphabet, Texas Instruments and Meta, which can be classified as a super...

Jews are leaving Russia again

by Stephen Hall | Oct 31, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Professor

Originally published August 2022. Is history repeating itself? It’s not the first time that Jews have felt it necessary to flee Russia, but the invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the fourth wave of exiles in the past hundred years. Since Vladimir Putin became...

Why don’t you hear about this on CNBC or Bloomberg?

by David Auerbach and Mary Jensen | Oct 27, 2022 | Golden Oldie, The Fund Manager

Originally published August 2022. Did anyone notice a trend in the residential REITs’ 1st quarter 2022 earnings calls? From a very high level, renowned C-suite executives from some of the top residential REITs across the country had very positive outlooks for 2022....