Links 5/10/2020
A guide to the tick species every American should know Popular Science (Re Silc). One tick two ticks red ticks blue ticks. What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy (PDF) Annual Review of Sociology. “Platforms represent a distinct type of governance mechanism, different from markets, hierarchies, or networks, and…
How the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted the global mining industry
Some have called the COVID-19 crisis a black swan event. It has had an extreme impact and the world was unprepared for what has transpired, even though, in hindsight, it was not unexpected. The mining industry has also been caught up in the turmoil. While previous global economic downturns hold…
bubmagMay 9, 2020
3 Links I Love: Emirates on COVID, Alitalia Being Alitalia, The Queen Flies High Again
This Week’s Featured Link Emirates’ Tim Clark: Coronavirus is a black swan event for the airline industry – The NationalI’m a sucker for a CEO interview that actually has substance. Here’s a good interview with the (probably still) outgoing head of Emirates, Sir Tim Clark. Image of the Week: This…
bubmagMay 8, 2020
Nick Kokonas on Resurrecting Restaurants, Skin in the Game, and Investing (#429)
“My dad used to run his own business. He was only high school educated. Every time I tried to complicate things when I was in college and I’d talk to him about his business, he would be like, ‘It’s three shoeboxes, Nick. It’s the money in, the money out, and…
bubmagMay 6, 2020
Double Black Swan Hitting Texas Drags Down Rest of Nation…
Double Black Swan Hitting Texas Drags Down Rest of Nation... site_name: www.msn.com host: www.msn.com url: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/double-black-swan-h??? Read More
bubmagMay 6, 2020
The ‘U.S. Market Strategy’ Or How To Invest Using A Crash-Hedged Strategy
There is no better moment to realize the value of a hedged and diversified investment strategy than now during this difficult coronavirus crisis. Logical-Invest has been developing hedged investment strategies for years with the goal of minimizing risk. Since we have been in a bull market for 11 years now,…
bubmagMay 6, 2020
Prediction Requires Emergent Data Recognition (EDR)
The recent and ongoing battle with COVID-19 has raised a goodly number of issues in and around getting surprised, arguments around emergent data, and slow/appropriate responses. The lessons learned so far are pretty rich, but I think there is more to discover. Scenario planning seemed to be lacking, the early…
bubmagMay 4, 2020
BTS Collect Another Major Honor In The U.K. With Their Latest Album
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 21: K-pop boy band BTS visit the SiriusXM Studios on February 21, 2020 ... in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM) Getty Images for SiriusXM Like every other band and solo musician in the world, BTS can’t tour or do…
bubmagMay 4, 2020
What Dallas Has Learned From Black Swan Events of the Past
I started my career in the midst of a “Black Swan” event. A generation ago, Dallas was in the throes of a mess, particularly from a commercial real estate standpoint. In the early ’80s, following the deregulation of the Savings and Loans, a tsunami of development ensued—some good, some not,…
bubmagApril 30, 2020