Be in the now. 25 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Economic Headwinds Won’t Hinder Stocks, Because Bad News Is Good for Easy Money (Barron’s)
  2. Velvet Glove, Meet Iron Fist: The China Tech Crackdown (Aswath Damodaran)
  3. China’s Tech Crackdown: Its about Control, not Consumers or Competition! (aswathdamodaran)
  4. Researchers Infect Volunteers With Coronavirus, Hoping to Conquer Covid-19 (Wall Street Journal)
  5. Learning from John D Rockefeller (mastersinvest)
  6. Investors Are Ignoring the Tax Elephant in the Room (Barron’s)
  7. Multiplying Crackdowns Haven’t Stopped Cash Pouring Into China (Bloomberg)
  8. Taylor Morrison Home Stock Trails Its Peers. But in a Hot Market, It’s a Value Play. (Barron’s)
  9. Private equity is leveraged equity (Financial Times)
  10. Biotech Is Due for a Comeback. 5 Stocks That Could Lead a Revival. (Barron’s)
  11. Emerging-Market Stocks Are Battered. (Barron’s)
  12. Sell Rosh Hashanah, Buy Yom Kippur: What Does The Market Adage Look Like In 2021? (Benzinga)
  13. 5 Very Well-Known Hot Stocks to Buy Under $10 With Huge Upside Potential (24/7 Wall Street)
  14. Netflix Stock Gets a Boost on News That It Will Stream ‘Seinfeld’ (Barron’s)
  15. Is the Stock Market in a Bubble? Don’t Bet on It. (Barron’s)
  16. Price-Innovation Cycles & Speculators (investoramnesia)
  17. Why 2021 Is the Kind of Year to Banish the September Stock Blues (Barron’s)
  18. NFT marketplace OpenSea records $3.4 billion transaction volume in August, 10 times the month before (MarketWatch)
  19. The Stock Market Could Struggle This Fall, Strategists Say. Buy Quality. (Barron’s)
  20. SEC’s Gary Gensler Has a Big, New Vision for the Stock Market. There Are Too Many ‘Inherent Conflicts of Interest.’ (Barron’s)
  21. China’s Xi Had a Very Busy Week. Here’s What He Said and Did (Bloomberg)
  22. ‘People just aren’t applying’: Why the restaurant industry created no new jobs last month (MarketWatch)
  23. Jobs Won’t Look Great in September, Either (Wall Street Journal)
  24. Banks and investors gear up for US corporate debt binge (Financial Times)
  25. Investing in the Dividend Aristocrats from 2011 (dividendgrowthinvestor)

Be in the know. 12 key reads for Friday…

  1. Alibaba, Tencent Look Cheap Even With China Crackdown Risks, NYU Professor Says (Bloomberg)
  2. US August payrolls rise much less than expected, while wages heat up (Reuters)
  3. Why 5 of the Highest-Yielding Dividend Aristocrats May Be the Safest Bet for Rest of 2021 (24/7 Wall Street)
  4. Why European stocks may be a good alternative to high U.S. valuations (MarketWatch)
  5. Investors Are Ignoring the Tax Elephant in the Room (Barron’s)
  6. US added 235K jobs in August, way below expectations of 720K (New York Post)
  7. The Hard Road Back. The Energy Report 09/03/2021 (Phil Flynn)
  8. Joe Manchin Calls for Pause in Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Spending Push (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Alibaba Pledges $15.5 Billion as Chinese Companies Extol Beijing’s ‘Common Prosperity’ Push (Wall Street Journal)
  10. Here’s the chart that shows what’s about to happen in the jobs market (marketwatch)
  11. The Netflix Show That Turbocharged Formula One (Wall Street Journal)
  12. China’s stock trading volume surges above 1 trillion yuan for weeks as other investment options dry up (CNBC)