- Brian Koppelman talks with comedian Amy Schumer. (grantland.com)
- The Russian economy is beyond f***ed right now as the elite have lost $61 billion in personal net worth so far (Bloomberg)
- The Winkelvii will not rest until Bitcoin becomes a real thing that you should care about. (DealBook)
- Burnout is a real risk at startups like Gimlet Media. (gimletmedia.com)
- Box’s IPO is today – the company is both a Microsoft partner and a Microsoft competitor at the same time. Should go well. (Wired)
- The WSJ’s obit for King Abdullah does a good job explaining why this is important (Wall Street Journal)
- Draghi: “There must be a statute of limitations for those who say there will be inflation” LOL (Calculated Risk)
- Jesse Felder, “The single greatest mistake investors make is to extrapolate recent history out into the future.” (thefelderreport.com)
- The Winkelvii want to create a regulated exchange for Bitcoin. (dealbook.nytimes.com)
- We overrate causality and underrate luck. (stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com)
- How to buy Alibaba ($BABA) at a big discount. (www.institutionalinvestor.com)
- What it means to be ‘short America.’ (www.npr.org)
- Elvis Mitchell talks with magician/actor/writer Ricky Jay. (www.kcrw.com)
- Another awful quarter for McDonald’s – when will Pershing Square get involved already? (Wall Street Journal)
- McDonald’s fixes its marketing, Chipotle fixes its product (Fortune)
- Apple App’s store is Bigger than Hollywood (Asymco)
- My new post at Fortune: McDonald’s fixes its marketing, Chipotle fixes its product (Fortune)
- The problem of requiring customers to get mad to get satisfaction. (sethgodin.typepad.com)
- Activist investors are pushing back against buttoned-up spinoffs. (www.wsj.com)
- A discussion with Steve Lockshin of AdvicePeriod.com. (www.belayadvisor.com)
- Russ Roberts talks with Nassim Nicholas Taleb about the risks of GMOs. (www.econtalk.org)
- Equity investors need to recognize that drawdowns happen. (theirrelevantinvestor.tumblr.com)
- Best Books for Investors: A Short Shelf (Total Return)
- Why you should never buy stuff when you are sad. (time.com)
- Meet the woman who can’t feel fear (Washington Post) see also World With No Fear (NPR)
- A New Way to Explode a Star? (National Geographic)
- Signs of froth in the peer-to-peer loan market. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Hedge funds are starting to use social media (Investment News)
- An Q1 Apple ($AAPL) earnings preview. (www.aboveavalon.com)
- The nine most important economic charts from the week. (qz.com)
- Marc Maron talks with writer/director Mike Judge. (www.wtfpod.com)
- Jeff Kleintop: The structural labor market reforms in Spain and Ireland are the way forward, QE not so much. (Schwab)
- The challenges facing the ECB’s attempt at quantitative easing. (www.nytimes.com)
- Icahn’s hungry for spin-offs (Wall Street Journal)
- Who is moving out of the US labor force? (marginalrevolution.com)
- Why real interest rates matter when it comes to comparing equity market earning yields. (www.philosophicaleconomics.com)
- Why is Canada cutting interest rates? (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Smartphone purchasers want the iPhone 6. (fortune.com)
- The Senate is pretty clearly a hoax (Vox) see also By 98 to 1, U.S. Senate passes amendment saying climate change is real, not a hoax (Science)
- Why doing nothing is so difficult. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Relative to bonds, S&P 500 companies may be about as cheap as they’ve ever been. (Housel)
- Hands-on: Microsoft’s HoloLens is flat-out magical (Ars Technica)
- Barry Ritholtz talks with bond fund manager Bill Gross. (www.ritholtz.com)
- On the big difference between Microsoft ($MSFT) and Apple ($AAPL). (qz.com)
- Jason Voss talks about how investors can better utilize their ‘right brains.’ (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
- Michael Covel talks ETFs with Mebane Faber. (www.michaelcovel.com)
- A report on how much do hedge fund analysts make. (sumzero.com)
- Alternative Assets Approach $7T Despite Headwinds (Chief Investment Officer) see also After Hedge Funds, CalPERS Eyes Private Equity Cuts (Chief Investment Officer)
