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Sunday links: stressful investments

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engadget.com) Startups The funding crunch for the last wave of startups is coming. noahpinion.substack.com) Some math behind putting Social Security back on solid footing. (tker.co) Amazon Amazon ($AMZN) is pushing pause on further HQ2 development in Arlington, VA. trungphan.substack.com) What a good investor update looks like.

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Saturday links: groundwater depletion

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insidehook.com) Autos Higher income countries invest more in road safety. sciencedaily.com) A startup, Arch, wants to streamline the installation of heat pumps. wsj.com) The math doesn't work: why air passengers can't carry on all their bags. abnormalreturns.com) There is no holy grail in investing.

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

While declining interest rates have been responsible for stock growth (at least at the extremes), interest rate changes don’t always determine our investment destiny. Tight Money Will Pressure Startups to Sell in 2023 : Startups holding out for an IPO or Figma-scale acquisition are likely to be disappointed ( Businessweek ).

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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NOW 2018 | China and the Race for Artificial Intelligence

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has led AI research out of the gate, with its national focus on entrepreneurship and the startup infrastructure afforded by Silicon Valley and other innovation hubs. Zhang presented data on three key indicators—AI company headquarters, AI patent filings and AI venture capital (VC) investment—to show that the U.S.

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NOW 2018 | China and the Race for Artificial Intelligence

Brown Advisory

has led AI research out of the gate, with its national focus on entrepreneurship and the startup infrastructure afforded by Silicon Valley and other innovation hubs. Zhang presented data on three key indicators—AI company headquarters, AI patent filings and AI venture capital (VC) investment—to show that the U.S.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. I, I found this to be really an intriguing conversation with somebody who, whose investment charge is unconstrained. Two reasons.

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