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10 Monday AM Reads
My back-to-work morning reads: • Vanguard Conquered the ETF World. Where It’s Aiming Next. Salim Ramji, who came over from BlackRock, inherits a firm built on Jack Bogle’s low-cost passive gospel since 1975 — and a challenge nothing like the one Bogle faced.. Here’s how CEO Salim Ramji plans to bring the asset-management company’s low-cost, high-return……
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10 Sunday Reads
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • If You Get in a Car Crash, the Risk Is Growing Your Insurance Won’t Pay: Denial rates are climbing, and the policy you thought you bought may not be the one that responds. Americans require a policy as a condition of driving, but it……
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10 Weekend Reads
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Clocks on One Building: Four-Year Leases. Sixteen-Year Guarantees. Debt to 2049: Shanaka Anslem Perera’s essay on the clocks of a single building — a small meditation on time, architecture, and attention……
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10 Friday AM Reads
My end-of-week morning reads: • The New Wild West: Texas Experiments With Raw Capitalism: The state’s light regulation and low taxes are luring dozens of big companies. It’s also setting up a water crisis and a “race to the bottom” in shareholder protections. (Barron’s) • Is Artificial Intelligence Making Us More Productive? What the UK Industry Data……
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10 Wednesday AM Reads
My mid-week morning reads: • I Vibe Coded a Security Risk: The app worked. Nobody, including me, had checked whether it was safe. “The feature is live lol” — a sentence written with a genuinely nervous laugh, immediately after the code-review agent explained what had just shipped. (Every) • America’s Mortgage King Lost $600 Million and……
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10 Tuesday AM Reads
My Two-for-Tuesday morning reads: • The Housing Recession is Over: The vibes remain bad, the recovery is uneven, but recession is now behind us. Conor Sen thought 2026 was the year housing cracked — Florida, Texas and Arizona were carrying 20% to 30% more listings than the same point pre-pandemic, and the number was still climbing. He……