09/18/2020: Weekly Newsletter
Money
Growth index outperforms value index over last decade
Differences and similarities between 1990s dot com boom versus current tech stock growth... as the Economist article states "For now, technology valuations are based, to a far greater degree than in the 1990s, on what could be rather than what is. Invest accordingly."...
NYTime's Dealbook discusses SPACs... (I would love for someone to fully explain to me the the advantages / disadvantages of this economic vehicle as I have yet to find a good full analysis of it...)
Tech
U.S. administration announced ban of TikTok and WeChat starting Sunday
Snowflake IPO'ed this week and doubled at the open
Nvidia to buy Arm chipmaker for $40bn
Culture
Ancient human footprints found in Saudi Arabia
Listen to me and my friend's discussion about Educated by Tara Westover at Not So Silent Reading, and/or gear up for our next book, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turto