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Sunday links: disappearing benchmarks

Markets

  • Corporate profit margins rule all. (tker.co)
  • AI trades are not a US-only phenomenon. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
  • Good luck trying to forecast earnings a decade out. (ritholtz.com)

ETFs

  • A change is coming for cannabis stocks and ETFs. (sherwood.news)
  • What makes for a successful liquid alts ETF. (hedgeco.net)

AI

  • Anthropic is now calling for a slowdown in AI development. (semafor.com)
  • OpenAI wants to take the chat out of ChatGPT. (spyglass.org)

Immigration

  • Well-funded startups are still able to hire H-1B workers. (pitchbook.com)
  • There has not been a surge of denaturalizations under Trump. (npr.org)
  • Eliminating birthright citizenship causes its own set of problems. (nytimes.com)

Law

  • What happens when the courts can no longer trust DOJ attorneys? (thebulwark.com)
  • Why lawyers are fleeing federal government jobs. (nytimes.com)
  • How the Trump administration wants to preempt whistleblowers. (theatlantic.com)
  • Publicly acknowledged donors to Trump's ballroom keep winning federal contracts. (washingtonpost.com)
  • ICE doesn't want to have to disclose deaths of recently released detainees. (washingtonpost.com)

States

  • Calling for the end of property taxes is fiscal nihilism. (hamiltonnolan.com)
  • No matter where you look religion is getting injected into public schools. (wapo.st)
  • More states are looking to launch child-focused savings programs. (thinkadvisor.com)

Economy

  • What's behind the boost in payrolls? (wsj.com)
  • Real yields are headed higher. (econbrowser.com)
  • A look the cap table of the US of A. (thetwocents.substack.com)
  • The economic schedule for the comgng week. (economicweekly.substack.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

  • Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns. (abnormalreturns.com)
  • What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
  • Saying no to algorithmic slop. (abnormalreturns.com)
  • Don't miss a thing! Sign up for our daily e-mail newsletter. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

  • Why Putin can't obtain his ultimate goal in Ukraine. (theatlantic.com)
  • How Russian oligarchs get around Western sanctions. (wsj.com)
  • Russia has been jamming GPS signals in Europe. (news.sky.com)
  • Why Putin wants is investing in anti-aging technologies. (wsj.com)