Weekly Readings: Offbeat

Wildfires are burning around the world. The most alarming is in the Amazon rainforest.

https://www.vox.com/world/2019/8/20/20813786/wildfire-amazon-rainforest-brazil-siberia

A Search for Miracle: Searching Duke

https://hazlitt.net/longreads/searching-duke

An abduction on Malabar Hills

https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/opinion-an-abduction-on-malabar-hill-1566484737573.html

How mosquitos changed everything

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/05/how-mosquitoes-changed-everything

How to keep calm in high-stress situations

https://qz.com/1685041/how-to-keep-calm-in-high-stress-situations/

Weekly Readings: Ethics

Sin of Pride: US Attorney General & his encryption policy

https://www.lawfareblog.com/attorney-general-william-barr-encryption-policy

Sin of Greed: Crime of Stupid Codes

https://www.zdnet.com/article/siemens-contractor-pleads-guilty-to-planting-logic-bomb-in-company-spreadsheets/

Weekly Readings: Technology

Won't Fix the bug

https://boingboing.net/2019/07/09/wontfix.html

Identity Theft and Withdrawal of Application

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/identity_theft_.html

Palantir's Surveillance Service for Law Enforcement

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/07/palantirs_surve.html

Weekly Readings: Personal Finance

The Salary Mirage: Common Calculation Mistake

http://value2wealth.blogspot.com/2019/08/twitter-poll-poll2learn-3.html

Understanding the Returns Perspective

http://value2wealth.blogspot.com/2019/08/twitter-poll-poll2learn-2.html

HUF is losing its charm as a tax savings tool

https://www.rediff.com/business/report/huf-is-losing-its-charm-as-a-tax-saving-tool/20190814.htm

Weekly Readings: Investments

The most impressive investment track record

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/08/who-has-the-most-impressive-investment-track-record/

The cost of capital

https://thereformedbroker.com/2019/06/13/when-everything-that-counts-cant-be-counted/

No one know how to ascertain true value or target price

https://acquirersmultiple.com/2019/08/investors-could-be-missing-out-on-some-big-gains-by-selling-a-stock-that-reaches-its-target-price/

The Five Dimensions of Variant Perception

https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2015/11/27/the-five-dimensions-of-variant-perception/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 25: Places

Travelling North East

https://www.traveldiaryparnashree.com/2019/08/things-no-one-told-you-about-northeast-india.html

Weekly Reading -- Aug 24: Offbeat

All food will be delivered

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/all-food-will-be-delivered/595222/

Something is always happening

https://thewaiterspad.com/2019/08/12/something-is-always-happening/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 23: Ethics

$38 Billion fraud at GE

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49352765

Perspective on Google

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 22: Economics

Inner Wear sales reveals a slowdown

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/garments-/-textiles/brief-warning-innerwear-sales-reveal-a-slowdown/articleshow/70694601.cms

Weekly Reading -- Aug 21: Personal Finance

Different Ways to be Rich

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/08/different-ways-to-be-rich-in-2019/

Focus on the Negative Art of Investing

https://novelinvestor.com/howard-marks-the-negative-art-of-investing/

Basics of RERA

https://www.jagoinvestor.com/2019/08/rera.html

The Money Value of Time

https://thefinancialbodyguard.com/the-money-value-of-time/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 20: Investments

The seduction of above average

https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-seduction-of-above-average/

Bonds are fricking expensive

https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Perspectives/Bonds-Are-Frickin-Expensive

The best metric in investing is...

https://acquirersmultiple.com/2019/08/the-single-best-metric-in-investing-is/

The metric of ROE

http://value2wealth.blogspot.com/2019/08/twitter-poll-poll2learn-1.html

The Contrarian Investing For the Decade

https://blog.evergreengavekal.com/an-investment-thesis-for-the-2020s/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 19: Business

Buffett's views on media businesses

www.dhruvapandey.wordpress.com/buffett-views-on-media-businesses

Book review: A bottle of Lies

http://alphaideas.in/2019/08/16/book-review-a-bottle-of-lies/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 18: People

Rabindranath Tagore

https://www.livehistoryindia.com/amazing-india/2019/08/07/rabindranath-tagore-the-artist

An obituary: Sushma Swaraj

https://madrascourier.com/biography/sushma-swaraj-the-minister-with-a-humane-touch/

Walking the Path of the Buddha

https://www.newyorker.com/news/out-of-eden/walking-the-path-of-the-buddha-in-a-neglected-corner-of-india

Dr Mary Poonen Lukose

https://www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/features/opinion-the-good-doctor-of-travancore-1565263922696.html

Weekly Reading -- Aug 18: Essential

Courage and Hope life of Charlie Munger

https://www.safalniveshak.com/courage-and-hope-life-of-charlie-munger/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 17: Offbeat

How Mosquitos helped shape human history

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-mosquitos-helped-shape-human-history-180972802/

The Jews in India

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/blessing-dates-bananas-i-found-jewish-community-in-india/

India's city where people come to die

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190617-indias-city-where-people-come-to-die

The Kung-Fu Nuns of Ladakh

https://www.arre.co.in/people/kung-fu-nun-ladakh-martial-arts-jackie-chan-himalayas/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 16: Ethics

Going after the unethical: Rs 1 Cr reward for Informers of Insider Trading

https://m.economictimes.com/markets/stocks/news/sebi-plans-rs-1-crore-reward-for-informers-of-insider-trading/articleshow/70558577.cms

Weekly Reading -- Aug 15: Economics

Howard Marks - On the Other Hand

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/docs/default-source/memos/on-the-other-hand.pdf

Weekly Reading -- Aug 14: Personal Finance

Best Tax Free Bonds 2019

https://www.basunivesh.com/2019/08/01/best-tax-free-bonds-2019-in-india/

Why stock market must go down

https://thereformedbroker.com/2019/08/05/why-the-stock-market-must-go-down/

Weekly Reading -- Aug 13: Investment

An evergreen Interview of Warren Buffett (published in 2017)

https://www.biznews.com/global-investing/2017/02/09/warren-buffett-economy-2017

Analysis: Cyient Ltd

https://www.drvijaymalik.com/2019/08/cyient-ltd.html

As yields turn negative, investors are having to pay for safety

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/08/10/as-yields-turn-negative-investors-are-having-to-pay-for-safety

Weekly Reading -- Aug 12: Business

Pharma Companies

https://www.outlookbusiness.com/the-big-story/lead-story/new-growth-model-5259

Weekly Readings -- Aug 10: Offbeat

The world's cheapest hospital has to get even cheaper

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-26/the-world-s-cheapest-hospital-has-to-get-even-cheaper

Hair for All

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/07/hair-for-all/594826/

Sleep. A new perspective on efficiency!

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/the-business-of-sleep

Deadly Fungal Infection Emerged Because of Global Warming, Study Says

https://time.com/5632961/candida-auris-global-warming/

Weekly Readings -- Aug 9: Ethics

The Stock Buyback Swindle

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/the-stock-buyback-swindle/592774/

How Adani will not pay any corporate tax till profit of $1.5 billion: Explains Professor

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/07/professor-adani-verge-collapse/

Weekly Readings -- Aug 8: Economics

Ruchir Sharma: Why we should fear easy money?

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/why-we-should-fear-easy-money-a-fed-rate-cut-now-could-hasten-the-arrival-of-a-global-recession-emanating-from-debt-fuelled-markets/

Weekly Readings -- Aug 6: Investing

Joel Greenblatt on Value Investing

http://blog.validea.com/investing-insights-from-joel-greenblat/

The Competitive Paradigm

http://marcellus.in/blogs/marcellus-unusual-billionaires-flip-the-competitive-paradigm/

Lessons on Risk from Indian roads

https://eightytwentyinvestor.com/2019/07/28/3-unexpected-lessons-on-risk-from-indian-roads/

Using Psychology to identify fund managers

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1ghpmmp796w07/Sports-Cars-Psychopaths-and-Testosterone-Inside-the-New-Frontier-of-Fund-Manager-Research

Weekly Readings -- Aug 5: Business

Understanding the company Petronet

https://valuationinmotion.blogspot.com/2019/07/petronet-lng-valuation-schrodingers.html

China & Business

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/china-business-xi-jinping-communist-party-state-private-enterprise-huawei

Only Two Types of Asset Managers Will Survive in 10 Years, BCG Says

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1ghqty9hdxlc7/Only-Two-Types-of-Asset-Managers-Will-Survive-in-10-Years-BCG-Says

Weekly Readings -- Aug 4: Essential

The Psychology of Prediction

https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-psychology-of-prediction/

Smart People Sharing Their Views

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/09/cnbc-excerpts-billionaire-investor-warren-buffett-on-cnbcs-squawk-box-today.html

Weekly Readings -- Aug 3: Offbeat

94% Bihari Women Know Of Contraception, But 1 in 5 Use It

https://www.indiaspend.com/survey-finds-94-bihari-women-know-of-contraception-but-1-in-5-use-it/

13 Railway Projects Exempted From Forest Approvals, Risking Wildlife Sanctuaries

https://www.indiaspend.com/13-railway-projects-exempted-from-forest-approvals-risking-wildlife-sanctuaries/

Weekly Readings -- Aug 2: Ethics

Duping Homebuyers

https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/how-jp-morgan-colluded-with-amrapali-group-to-divert-funds-dupe-homebuyers-119072400162_1.html

Money Laundering & The Corrupt Elite Globally

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/klepotcracy-money-laundering-book/

Weekly Readings -- Aug 1: Economics

Interesting stories behind rising bank credit numbers

https://blog.ventura1.com/2019/07/interesting-stories-behind-rising-bank-credit-numbers/