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Sunday Links: A Shrinking Pie
Finance
- Franklin Templeton ($BEN) is moving aggressively beyond stocks and bonds. (wsj.com)
- How fast can Blackrock ($BLK) really grow earnings? (riabiz.com)
- How this hedge fund cleaned up on the sale of Seagen to Pfizer ($PFE). (wsj.com)
Companies
- It's hard to overstate the importance of Alphabet's ($GOOGL) YouTube. (wapo.st)
- Global plastic making capacity keeps rising. (barrons.com)
- Why it matters who has liability when an autonomous vehicle is in a crash. (wsj.com)
Global
- India is facing its own booming housing market. (barrons.com)
- Thanks to foot dragging in the West, defeat in Ukraine is now a real possibility. (americanpurpose.com)
Crime
- The homicide rates is falling rapidly in American cities. (wsj.com)
- The work-from-home era is bad for burglars. (bloomberg.com)
- There's little evidence that migrants commit more crime than the native borne. (reuters.com)
Elected officials
- Turnover among elected officials is still rising. (npr.org)
- Congress is bleeding foreign policy expertise. (danieldrezner.substack.com)
Policy
- Let the four day workweek come about naturally, instead of mandating it. (bloomberg.com)
- Don't underestimate the lobbying power of the retirement account industry. (politico.com)
- How employee-sponsored health insurance affects the Social Security system. (crr.bc.edu)
- Paying off people's medical debt doesn't seem to move the needle on wellness. (theguardian.com)
- Why some states are unwilling to help students to get food during the summer. (nytimes.com)
- How religious exemptions could preempt stricter state abortion laws. (slate.com)
Economy
- Why everyone keeps underestimating the strength of the U.S. economy. (axios.com)
- Why don't Americans have more leisure time? (msn.com)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks this week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Some interesting developments in the financial media space. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
