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Episode 21-13 The Birth of CRISPR (Tech Nation )
Mean Reversion After Biggest 1-Year Spike Since 1949? (Almanac Trader )
Democrats confident they can pass $3tn infrastructure bill (Financial Times )
The Economy Doesn’t Need The Fed’s Easy Monetary Policy To Keep Booming, BofA Says (Forbes )
Are we heading for a post-pandemic ‘Roaring 2020s,’ with parties and excess? (Washington Post )
Amazon could get its first unionised workforce in America (The Economist )
Electric Air Taxis Must Be Just as Safe as Commercial Planes, VTOL Exec Says (robbreport )
Watch this $1.2M supercar EV drift on ice like a ballerina (thenextweb )
F1 live stream: how to watch every 2021 Grand Prix online from anywhere (techradar )
Boats And Bull Markets: Indicators Of The Week (NPR Planet Money )
Succession Season 3: Everything We Know So Far (Town & Country )
Block-Trade Bevy Wipes $35 Billion Off Stock Values in a Day (Bloomberg )
GSK and Vir Submit Covid-19 Drug for FDA Authorization (Barron’s )
Gilded Age or Roaring Twenties? (investoramnesia )
The Value Stock Rotation Isn’t Over—Not by a Long Shot (Barron’s )
Higher Taxes? Deficit Spending? Why the Stock Market Isn’t Worried. (Barron’s )
European Stocks Look Tempting. No, Really. (Barron’s )
Here’s what tax hikes could mean for the stock market as Biden pushes infrastructure plan (MarketWatch )
China Signs 25-Year Deal With Iran in Challenge to the U.S. (Bloomberg )
‘It’s crazy. There is no inventory.’ Housing industry veteran marvels at real estate boom (CNN Business )
US fears China is flirting with seizing control of Taiwan (Financial Times )
Big Oil lobbyist throws weight behind carbon pricing (Financial Times )
What Discord Is, and Why Microsoft Covets It (Bloomberg )
John Stuart Mill’s Philosophy of Equality (Farnam Street )
Influencers with Andy Serwer: Ray Dalio (Yahoo! Finance )
Payday Might Be Coming for U.S. Bank Investors (Wall Street Journal )
Fed lifts curbs on US banks’ share buybacks and dividends (Financial Times )
Aston Martin bets on a Formula One comeback to revive the brand (Financial Times )
Earnings Forecasts Are Low. What That Means for Stocks (Barron’s )
Merck’s Little Brown Pill Could Transform the Fight Against Covid (Bloomberg )Street Insider )
5 High-Yielding Dividend Aristocrat Stocks Are Perfect Now for Worried Investors (24/7 Wall Street )
Race to dislodge Suez blockage as shipping rates surge, tankers diverted away (Reuters )
Global money market funds get highest inflows in 13 weeks, Lipper data show (Reuters )
The Pandemic Has Hurt Rite Aid and Walgreens. Here’s Why That Might Change. (Barron’s )
Yes, You Can Retire on Dividends. 10 Stocks to Build an Income Stream for the Long Haul. (Barron’s )
Andrew Left Channels GameStop, Naming Heavily-Shorted Root as Best Stock Pick of 2021 (Institutional Investor )
Companies raise record $140bn in US junk bond market in first quarter (Financial Times )
Powell Says Now Is Not the Time to Focus on Reducing Federal Debt (Wall Street Journal )
Berkshire Hathaway Offers to Spend $8.3 Billion on Emergency Power Plants in Texas Wall Street Journal )
With Negative Rates, Homeowners in Europe Are Paid to Borrow (Wall Street Journal )
Powell says Fed will ‘gradually’ cut its bond-market footprint — some think this year (MarketWatch )
Amazon Faces Growing Worker Pressure in Shadow of Alabama Union Vote (Wall Street Journal )
Green Energy Spinoffs Can Help Investors Clean Up (Wall Street Journal )
Consumer Spending Explodes, Driven By Vaccine Recipients, Millennials Splurging On Airlines, Restaurants (ZeroHedge )
Stock futures slide as Powell warns Fed could taper asset purchases (Fox Business )
Institutional Investors Have Been Influenced by Reddit — But They Still Don’t Trust It (Institutional Investor )
Billionaire Investor Ray Dalio Believes That Governments Are Likely To Outlaw Bitcoin (Benzinga )
3 Oil Stocks to Buy After the Selloff (Barron’s )
Banks to Continue Benefiting from Ongoing Growth-to-Value Rotation – Morgan Stanley (Street Insider )
It’s ‘all systems go’ for global growth and the risk rally, Barclays says. Here’s how to play it. (MarketWatch )
Pfizer says Ibrance gives more survival time to some breast-cancer patients (MarketWatch )
Wall Street Anxious to See How New Citigroup CEO Can Improve Returns (Barron’s )
U.S.-China Tensions Are Rising. Nike Stock Is Paying the Price. (Barron’s )
Biogen Investors Want News on Alzheimer’s Therapy. 2 More Key Points to Watch. (Barron’s )
H&R Block Wants to Do More Than Your Taxes. Why Its Stock Is a Buy (Barron’s )
Chinese Tech Stocks Slump in Hong Kong as SEC Implements Delisting Law (Barron’s )
Suez Canal Is Blocked by Container Ship Causing Huge Traffic Jam (Wall Street Journal )
Democrats Weigh Increases in Corporate, Personal Income-Tax Rates (Wall Street Journal )
Carbon Tax Sidelined in Biden’s Push on Climate, Taxes (Wall Street Journal )
Jerome Powell Says Better Outlook Reflects Vaccine Progress, Fiscal Aid (Bloomberg )
Ed Yardeni Can Live With Higher Yields for the Sake of Earnings (Bloomberg )
U.S. State Jobless Claims Fell to Pandemic-Era Low Last Week (Bloomberg )
Clorox Bets Big on Not Going Back to Normal (Bloomberg )
Drill, Baby, Drill Hasn’t Died in the U.S. Shale Patch (Bloomberg )
U.S. GDP growth in fourth quarter raised slightly to 4.3% — and all signs point to economy speeding up (MarketWatch )
JPMorgan says stimulus checks are driving less retail-investing activity than the last round of payments (Business Insider )
Northrop and Lockheed win missile defense contracts valued at up to $7.6 billion (StreetInsider )
Pfizer Will Test a Pill to Kill the Covid-19 Virus (Barron’s )
Pfizer Goes It Alone to Expand Vaccine Business Beyond Covid-19 Pandemic (Wall Street Journal )
The new S&P 500 bull market is about to enter its second year. Now what? (MarketWatch )
Powell and Yellen’s game plan is evocative of the World War II playbook. Here’s what happened then. (MarketWatch )
Convertible Bonds Are Booming. Here’s What You Need to Know. (Barron’s )
Regeneron Stock Climbs on Positive Covid-19 Antibody Data (Barron’s )
Citigroup and 5 More Lenders Poised for Gains in ‘Bank Renaissance’ (Barron’s )
5 Beaten-Down Renewable Energy Stocks That May Be Worth a Look (Barron’s )
Intel’s New CEO Is Spending $20 Billion to Double Down on Chip Manufacturing (Barron’s )
Powell Says Stimulus Package Isn’t Likely to Fuel Unwelcome Inflation (Wall Street Journal )
New York Business Leaders Urge State Lawmakers to Not Raise Taxes (Wall Street Journal )
Fed’s Bullard won’t forecast any interest-rate hikes until he sees proof of strong economy (MarketWatch )
Bostic expects Fed to lift rates in 2023 – WSJ (Reuters )
Hawaii gets tourism surge as coronavirus rules loosen up (Fox Business )
Coronavirus latest: Merkel reverses course on Easter lockdown in Germany (Financial Times )
BofA Raises Price Targets for US Banks on Faster-Than-Expected Recovery (StreetInsider )
Banks stand firm on calls for oil ‘supercycle’ even as price drops (Financial Times )
Tax hikes are the next big investor worry: Morning Brief (Yahoo! Finance )
Biden Team Prepares $3 Trillion in New Spending for the Economy (New York Times )
Campbell and B&G Foods Have Outperformed. Only One Is a Buy for This Analyst. (Barron’s )
Infrastructure Plan Seeks to Address Climate and Equality as Well as Roads (New York Times )
Regeneron says its COVID-19 treatment still works even at a lower dose (MarketWatch )
Top Yale Doctor/Researcher: ‘Ivermectin works,’ including for long-haul COVID (trialsitenews )
Change of menu: Kraft Heinz bets on old brands to win new consumers (Financial Times )
Here Are 6 REITs Set to Gain as Economy Reopens (Barron’s )
Germany To Enter Strict Easter Shutdown Amid ‘New Pandemic’ (Barron’s )
Short and Hot: How Investors Can Play This Economic Cycle (Barron’s )
Why the Canadian Pacific-Kansas City Southern Deal Is Bullish for Railroad Stocks (Barron’s )
Bank of America CEO Says Its Earnings Are Poised to ‘Substantially Increase’ (Barron’s )
Joe Biden Wants to Raise Taxes. What It Would Mean for the Stock Market. (Barron’s )
Fed’s Powell Says Recovery Is Far From Complete (Wall Street Journal )
Lockheed Martin partners with startup Omnispace to build space-based 5G network (CNBC )
Pension funds to buy bonds to rebalance portfolios, and that may help stocks (CNBC )
Billionaire investor Howard Marks touts value stocks, trumpets high-quality growth stocks, and says he’s open-minded about bitcoin in a new interview. Here are the 9 best quotes. (Business Insider )
5 Goldman Sachs Conviction List Stocks to Buy Now That Pay Big Dividends (24/7 Wall Street )
UK unemployment rate unexpectedly falls to 5% in January as the country looks ahead to reopening (Business Insider )
Stocks slump at the open Tuesday as fresh lockdowns sweep the globe (MarketWatch )
Bank of America CEO Says Its Earnings Are Poised to ‘Substantially Increase’ as Rates Rise (Barron’s )
AstraZeneca Vaccine Found to Be Safe and 79% Effective in U.S. Trial (Barron’s )
How to Play the Next Space Race (Barron’s )
Value Could Outpace Growth for Years. Here’s How. (Barron’s )
These Stocks Are More of a Gamble Than an Investment — and the #1 Is a Reddit Favorite (Barron’s )
Recast as ‘Stimmies,’ Federal Relief Checks Drive a Stock Buying Spree (New York Times )
Canadian Pacific Railway to buy Kansas City Southern for $25 billion (CNBC )
Summers Sees ‘Least Responsible’ Fiscal Policy in 40 Years (Bloomberg )
Scion of Billionaire Family Hunts for Cheap Assets in Venezuela (Bloomberg )
U.S. economy is ‘on the brink’ of a complete recovery, says Richmond Fed’s Barkin (CNBC )
Israel Is a Vaccine Leader. Now Its Economy Is Improving. (Barron’s )
GameStop Earnings Are Coming. Nobody Knows What to Expect. (Barron’s )
Turkish lira and stocks slump after Erdogan fires central bank chief (MarketWatch )
Blackstone’s Crown Deal Has Dice Loaded in Its Favor (Wall Street Journal )
Stock Market Reshuffle Has Room to Run (Wall Street Journal )
Stimulus Checks Have Left U.S. Households Ready to Spend (Wall Street Journal )
Americans Are Ready to Travel. But Where Can They Go? (Wall Street Journal )
CBS Looks for Growth Abroad—With David Hasselhoff’s Help (Wall Street Journal )
Fed’s Reversal on Bank Capital Requirements Serves No Purpose (Wall Street Journal )
Value stocks are so in favor they’ve become momentum stocks (MarketWatch )
Opinion: Here’s the secret of how great companies get to the top of their game (MarketWatch )
Fed may hike rates sooner than 2023: NABE (FoxBusiness )
Investors inject almost $170bn into global stocks in 4 weeks (Financial Times )
Saudis Launch Major Gulf Naval Drills To Protect Oil Facilities Against Terror Attacks (ZeroHedge )
U.S. existing home sales drop sharply; prices surge (Reuters )
9 Best Pharmaceutical Stocks to Buy for Income (US News & World Report )
CP Rail to buy Kansas City Southern to create first rail network connecting Canada, the United States and Mexico (Financial Post )
Bill Gurley on Entrepreneurs and Technology (Podcast) (Bloomberg )
Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene (The Atlantic )
How CVS And Walgreens Help Biden Get To 200 Million Covid-19 Shots (Forbes )
Why A Multi-Family Office Co-Founded By Stuart Miller Invested $100 Million In A Vacant Beverly Hills Hotel (Forbes )
The Design Story Behind The Exotic Maserati MC20 (Forbes )
Lamborghini Will Debut Two New V-12 Supercars This Year (Robb Report )
Larry Summers Versus the Stimulus (The New Yorker )
The Ferrari F8 Is Astounding (R& T )
The S&P 500 still has 12% upside with spiking yields set to stabilize amid strong earnings, JPMorgan’s global markets chief says (Business Insider )
Fed Will Need to Buy Bonds as Stimulus Boosts Yields, Dalio Says (Bloomberg )
Corporate America Primed to Join Warren Buffett in Buyback Binge (Bloomberg )
How to Play the New Space Race (Barron’s )
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway scores $17 billion gain across 5 stocks as value stages a comeback (Business Insider )
The OODA Loop: How Fighter Pilots Make Fast and Accurate Decisions (Farnam Street )
Economy Revs Up as Americans Increase Spending on Flights, Lodging, Dining Out (Wall Street Journal )
Bill Gates Says Some Tax Proposals Have Gone ‘Too Far’ (Bloomberg )
Why Goldman Sachs sees a ‘buying opportunity’ in oil’s recent selloff (MarketWatch )
The Fed Will End Emergency Relief for Banks. It Might Not Make Much Difference for Markets. (Barron’s )
Modern Issues, Old Solutions (Investor Amnesia )
Stock Market’s Weakest Links Dominate With Full-Throttle Fed (Bloomberg )
Bitter Alaska Meeting Complicates Already Shaky U.S.-China Ties (Wall Street Journal )
Visa Faces Antitrust Investigation Over Debit-Card Practices (Wall Street Journal )
Deep Value by Tobias Carlisle (Novel Investor )
Saudi Arabia Says Missiles in Aramco Attacks Were Made in Iran (Bloomberg )
The Fed could be a source of market volatility as Powell and others speak in the week ahead (CNBC )
Jerome Powell on the Pandemic Year: Tools to Avoid a Meltdown and Save Livelihoods (Wall Street Journal )
Value stocks are so in favor they’ve become momentum stocks (MarketWatch )
Elon Musk and Amazon Are Battling to Put Satellite Internet in Your Backyard (Wall Street Journal )
Tom Hanks on the Pandemic Year: Never Play Solitaire Again (Wall Street Journal )
More Than 420 Million Shots Given: Covid-19 Tracker (Bloomberg )
GE Is Finally Trading Its Bankers’ Stripes for a Hard Hat (Bloomberg )
All About Clubhouse, a Gabfest Behind a Velvet Rope (Bloomberg )
Staying Power (DGI )
Fed won’t extend relief for banks from key capital rule (MarketWatch )
Penny-stock trading volume has exploded by 2,000% amid the growing influence of retail traders (Business Insider )
Acting FTC chair calls for ‘bold action’ to rein in tech, other monopolies (MarketWatch )
Covid Flares. The Energy Report 03/19/2021 (Phil Flynn )
The Amazon Unionization Vote: What to Know (New York Times )
First U.S.-China meeting under Biden gets off to a rocky start (CNBC )
Bank stocks just hit their highest level since 2007. Two traders on when to buy in (CNBC )
Putin fires back at Biden after ‘killer’ comments: Takes one to know one (USA Today )
FCC enforces largest fine ever of $225 million against telemarketers who made 1 billion robocalls (USA Today )
Jerome Powell’s Fed Wants the Bond Market to Hear Three Messages (Bloomberg )
The ‘three pillars’ of this bull market are still in place: Morning Brief (Yahoo! Finance )
UBS Upgrades Carnival Corporation (CCL) to Buy (Street Insider )
Gene Therapy Data Breathes New Life Into Battered Sarepta Stock (Barron’s )
Boeing Moon Rocket Passes NASA Test (Wall Street Journal )
Oil Investors Hunt for Cash Gushers (Wall Street Journal )
