Wednesday Reading List

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

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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