"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." --Albert Einstein
The Fireworks Over Share Buybacks Are Duds - by Jason Zweig ($) (LINK)
Share buybacks are as American as mom, apple pie and hot dogs on the Fourth of July.
You’d never guess that given the many politicians on both the left and the right who say share repurchases are a newfangled, evil spawn of deregulation.
Complexity Investing [H/T @BluegrassCap] (LINK)
My Questions About Negative-Yielding Debt - by Ben Carlson (LINK)
Marketing 3.0: How L’Oréal is embracing new marketing codes [H/T @ivan_brussels] (LINK)
Raoul Pal with a Twitter thread about some of the macro risks he sees in Europe (LINK)
Short Seller Targets Anta in Another Attack on China’s Biggest Sportswear Company ($) (LINK)
Carson Block’s firm takes aim at Anta in report titled ‘Turds in the Punchbowl’
Huawei staff share deep links with Chinese military, new study claims (LINK) [The paper is available HERE.]
Cyberweapons: A Real Worry - by Kevin Kelly (LINK)
Ben Thompson on The Talk Show With John Gruber Podcast (LINK)
Techmeme Ride Home Podcast: The Man Who Could Have Been Bill Gates? (Part 1, Part 2)
Robert Greene: "The Laws of Human Nature" | Talks at Google (LINK)
Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost [H/T Linc] (LINK)
What Snowball the parrot’s spontaneous moves teach us about ourselves