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Sunday links: forecasting accuracy

Abnormal Returns

(gothamgal.com) 15 states have rejected a new, federally funded summer program to give food assistance to hungry children. washingtonpost.com) Measuring economic inequality is harder than it looks. washingtonpost.com) The number of American centenarians is set to quadruple. pewresearch.org) Who get theirs rough roads repaved?

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Saturday links: making the switch

Abnormal Returns

nytimes.com) Long-term renewable energy storage is needed, but the economics are uncertain. nytimes.com) How financial incentives are driving the rising number of bee colonies. wapo.st) Food Chick-fil-A is going to reintroduce chicken treated with antibiotics. (nytimes.com) Energy The U.S.

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Saturday links: strange sounds

Abnormal Returns

fastcompany.com) Food America's snacking habit seems to have no end. brookings.edu) States are providing free college educations to increase the number of trained teachers. abnormalreturns.com) Podcast links: the economics of innovation (abnormalreturns.com) Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking?

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Saturday links: sympathy vs. compassion

Abnormal Returns

scientificamerican.com) Gray whale numbers are in decline. scientificamerican.com) Food Consumers are trading down when it comes to groceries. cnn.com) On the economics of the Costco ($COST) rotisserie chicken. abnormalreturns.com) Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking?

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Global Leaders Investment Letter: August 2022

Brown Advisory

The expected competitive forces don’t materialise, and we believe that superior economics can be maintained for a lot longer than our standard microeconomics mean-reversion frameworks would suggest. In the financial markets we see evidence of cycles in capital flows as market prices rise. The key to this is analysis of the supply-side.

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Saturday links: repeated deceptions

Abnormal Returns

wired.com) Food Why a home cooked meal trumps a restaurant meal. theatlantic.com) The poultry industry is trying to reduce the number of male chicks born. vox.com) Why PFAS keeps showing up in to-go food wrappers and containers. statnews.com) The future of fast food is drive-thru. The number may surprise you.

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Transcript: Dave Nadig

The Big Picture

The advice part of being a financial adviser is the hard part. I have lots of different ways I can get that number to go up. It’s still a fairly small number. So we haven’t talked about the thematic ETS, biblical, partisan, our friend Perth Tolle’s Economic Freedom. The assets are inactive. NADIG: FRDM.