10 Weekend Reads
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of
French Roast coffee, grab a seat by the fire, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads:
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The Unbeatable Ed Hyman For four decades Ed Hyman has been unrivaled among Wall Street economists. It is a truth universally acknowledged that Edward S. Hyman Jr. is Wall Street’s greatest living economist. And a nice guy too. The former has been documented every October since 1976 in Institutional Investor. The latter, most recently by everyone interviewed for this article. Is his reign nearing its end? (Institutional Investor)
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No, Austin Won’t Become Silicon Valley 2.0 Appalled by the sky-high rents and wealth inequality of today’s San Francisco region, the other tale is that the tech industry itself is the real villain. Having eaten the Bay Area alive, and now in the process of spitting out the bones of a once-dynamic city, it looks for its next meal. The same rapacious billionaire