Stuff worth sharing from the past week
ICYMI: Discussing Investing and Financial Planning During Volatile Times – Radio Entrepreneurs appearance to discuss handling your investment portfolio and financial plan during times of extreme market volatility.
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We’re entering election season. This is a good guide if you’re interested in learning how to read and interpret polls.
How To Read Polls In 2020 by Nathaniel Rakich
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A big concern when the stock market recovers before the economy, is if the stock market is wrong and the economic recovery won’t come or won’t last. This is a good piece on how often we have a double dip recession.
How Rare is a Double Dip Recession? by Ben Carlson
Maybe stocks are tracking fundamentals after all. pic.twitter.com/JjWyxLHBTQ
— Jeffrey Kleintop (@JeffreyKleintop) June 20, 2020
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Long piece alert, but well worth it. “What do Covid-19, Ebola, Lyme and AIDS have in common? They jumped to humans from animals after we started destroying habitats and ruining ecosystems.”
How Humanity Unleashed a Flood of New Diseases by Ferris Jabr
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“Health experts want a 9/11 Commission-style report on the US pandemic response. They say we must forecast and prepare for outbreaks as we do for wars or weather.”
Covid-19 Is Bad. But It May Not Be the ‘Big One’ by Maryn McKenna
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You learn something every day. I had no idea Rhode Island’s official name was The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Rhode Island may change its official state name over slavery connotations by Zachary Folk
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Lots of bubble talk these days. This piece lays out both sides and comes to a sensible conclusion.
The stock market may be pricey, but it’s nothing like the genuine market bubbles of the past by Michael Santoli
