The Zeitgeist | 2.8.2019

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.

A Storm Is Coming to the Global Music Industry – and More than $100 Billion Is at Stake

Tesla cuts the price of its Model 3 AGAIN: Electric car maker slashes $1,100 off its most affordable vehicle in second cost reduction this year as production finally ramps up

A positive picture: How banks are presenting their art treasures in a better light

ESG investing: how the rise of data can undermine human rights

Looking At Standalone Maersk Drilling Through Potential M&A Lens

Citi just revealed unflattering pay data. Will other banks follow suit?

Thomas Cook Stock Falls as Brexit Seen Hampering Airlines Sale

LAZY SUNDAY Average Brit spends Sundays eating roasts, taking strolls and watching films  (Ed Note: If you’re able to take a stroll, you’re not doing Sunday lunch correctly)

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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.

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By Ben Hunt | April 12, 2019 | 4 Comments

My father owned a red Corvair almost exactly like this one. He loved that car. Almost died in it, too, when he was t-boned at an intersection on his way to work in Bessemer, Alabama. That was in 1966. I was two years old.

The Boeing 737 MAX is our generation’s Chevy Corvair.

Unsafe At Any Speed.

Dick Fuld

The Zeitgeist – 4.11.2019

By Ben Hunt | April 11, 2019 | 0 Comments

Today in the Zeitgeist, an HBR article about the “mourning patterns” of Lehman employees. Color me triggered.

If you don’t know what Repo 105 was, you should. If you do know what Repo 105 was, you should find someone who doesn’t and tell them about it.

The Zeitgeist – 4.10.2019

By Ben Hunt | April 10, 2019 | 4 Comments

Wait … an article about Puerto Rico that’s not about tax shelters or bond defaults or crappy local government or Trump idiocy or crypto bros? … an article that’s about entrepreneurship and the sort of small businesses that are the life blood of a vibrant local economy? What the hell, New York Times?

Not to worry, though, there’s plenty of Fiat News and the usual raccoonery here in the rest of the daily Zeitgeist.

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