The Zeitgeist | 2.7.2019

This is our feature of the 10 most on-Narrative (i.e. interconnected, highly similar) stories in financial media. It’s not a list of best articles, or articles we think are most interesting, or articles we agree with. But if you’re going to read 5-10 stories when you start your day, these are the ones that are most connected to the financial news that got published today.

Wall Street Sees Red

Apple’s Top Retail Exec Angela Ahrendts to Leave Amid iPhone Sales Slowdown

Don’t Like How Vague Alphabet Can Be? Better Get Used to it — Here’s Why

This could be the year of the megadevelopment. These 6 sites could alter Chicagos skyline forever.

New Research From Bain & Company, Google Predicts Online Grocery Shopping Will Triple In The Next Decade

Gong.io Raises $40 Million to Transform Sales With AI

Texas Employees commits $235 million to 4 alternative funds

Liht Cannabis Corp. Announces Signing of $10,000,000 Non-Dilutive Development Agreement For Its Project In Celista, British Columbia

2020 Dems walk fine line with support for ‘Medicare for all’

SocGen Will Shrink Trading Unit, Cuts Targets After Market Rout

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ET Zeitgeist: Raccoons Never Sleep

By Ben Hunt | May 28, 2021 | 5 Comments

Lemonade (LMND) isn’t just an insurance company. No, no … they’re an AI Company! ™.

Plus Chamath is up to his old tricks.

I hate raccoons.

Inflation as Ad Campaign

By Ben Hunt | May 24, 2021 | 0 Comments

An ET Pack member sent me this. Anyone else come across ads that directly call out inflation expectations? Would love to collect more screenshots like…

Many People Are Saying … Bitcoin is Art

By Ben Hunt | May 24, 2021 | 0 Comments

The Bitcoin Is Art thesis that I put out back in 2015 (The Effete Rebellion of Bitcoin) and recently put forward again (In Praise of…

Americans Rely on Public Restrooms

By Rusty Guinn | June 12, 2019 | 1 Comment

The need to control and influence common knowledge knows no boundaries. And I mean literally no boundaries.

Big Tech Has Lost Control of Its Cartoon

By Ben Hunt | June 11, 2019 | 1 Comment

There are two narrative structures that have grown to a size and a level of cohesion that makes them impossible to be politically ignored.

One is the student loan “crisis”. The other is the Big Tech “monopoly”.

And yes, I’m putting those words in air-quotes, because the first isn’t really a crisis and the second isn’t really a monopoly. But since when did that matter in narrative-world?

Vanguard Doesn’t Care About Your Trade War

By Ben Hunt | June 11, 2019 | 0 Comments

Vanguard just announced a joint venture with Ant Financial in Shanghai. They’re not waiting around for a trade “deal”, and they’re not clutching their pearls about Chinese IP “theft”.

No, Vanguard is going to do what they always do … they’re going to obliterate their competition with the pricing power that comes from government collaboration.

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