Wednesday Reading List
ICYMI: Ukraine Reading List
Sharing a short list of content about Ukraine I found helpful this week and brief investment thoughts.
How will the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Impact my Investments?
Our team’s latest looks at the question on investor’s minds this week.
Got a suspicious phone call? Here’s how to avoid falling for a tax scam
With tax season well underway ahead of the April 18 filing deadline, criminals are on the hunt for unsuspecting victims. The IRS recently warned Americans to be on the lookout for different kinds of “IRS impersonation scams” with goals ranging from extracting payment to wholesale identity theft.
Which Funds Have the Biggest Russian Stock Holdings?
Investors in these funds had the most exposure to Russia heading into the war.
See also Which Funds Had Heavy Holdings of Russian Debt?
Russia’s Initial Failures Don’t Mean Ukraine Will Survive
Putin’s military may seek to recover from its early mistakes with increased brutality.
Opening Day Is Canceled. MLB Has No One to Blame But Itself.
MLB’s self-imposed deadline(s) have come and gone, and now the season’s start date has officially been pushed back. How will this lockout end? And what will the league look like once it does?
Biden Assails Putin, Pledges Inflation Fight in State of Union
President calls Russian leader ‘dictator’ and says he’ll pay. Americans should return to offices after pandemic, Biden says.
You Really Should Know Connie Kunzmann
Long before the WNBA, there was the WBL. And there was Kunzmann, who scraped and hustled her way to relative fame in a shoestring, sexist league. You might know her name today, if not for a horrific act 40 years ago.
Podcast Recommendation
Derek considers five ways that the war in Ukraine could end with University of Chicago professor Paul Poast
Book Recommendation
A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
