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Wednesday links: always in training

Markets

  • What's behind the rise in Treasury yields? (ritholtz.com)
  • Falling earnings expectations would kill the bull market. (spilledcoffee.co)
  • Is this market more like the Nifty Fifty era than the Dotcom boom? (awealthofcommonsense.com)

Managers

  • Great investors aren't exactly normal. (economist.com)
  • A big profile of Leopold Aschenbrenner, portfolio manager of Situational Awareness. (wsj.com)

ETFs

  • SpaceX's ($SPCX) share of various index ETFs is going up. (morningstar.com)
  • A closer look at the Alpha Architect 1-3 Month Box ETF ($BOXX). (barrons.com)

Finance

  • Why the alternative asset managers have struggled this year. (morningstar.com)
  • Victory Capital Holdings Inc. agreed to buy First Eagle Investments (bloomberg.com)
  • Signs that institutional investors are coming to embrace evergreen funds. (ft.com)
  • Concerns from Mark Walters are spreading through the insurance industry. (wsj.com)
  • Vanguard is buying upstart custodian Altruist. (wsj.com)

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Chicken

  • How chicken came to dominate the global market for protein. (giftarticle.ft.com)
  • On the vast scale of the chicken industry in the U.S. (andymasley.com)

Canada

  • Daniel Drezner, "The Trump administration’s political tactics have made securing a deal harder while providing powerful political incentives for Canada to stand firm." (danieldrezner.substack.com)
  • What does Trump want from Canada? (paulkrugman.substack.com)
  • Why toilet paper prices are headed higher. (theguardian.com)

Writing

  • AI writing as a billionaire flex. (axios.com)
  • Proof of effort means something. (surfacearea.beehiiv.com)
  • Noah Brier, "Writing is anti-consensus." (whyisthisinteresting.substack.com)
  • Some advice on how to write. (thezvi.substack.com)

Economy

  • Q2 PCE came in at 3.7%. Core at 3.3%. (wsj.com)
  • The spending gap, by wealth, is growing. (bonddad.blogspot.com)
  • Diesel prices are nearing a record high. (nytimes.com)
  • Fiscal issues are putting upward pressure on interest rates. (apollo.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

  • Personal finance links: safely spending a nest egg. (abnormalreturns.com)
  • What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
  • Research links: judgment and accountability. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

  • RIP, Dolly Parton. (theringer.com)
  • Dolly Parton, the last bipartisan icon. (wapo.st)
  • Dolly Parton's best skill may be as songwriter. (npr.org)
  • Dolly Parton’s “Dolly: A True Original Musical” will still open on Broadway. (variety.com)
  • How to contribute to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. (donate.imaginationlibrary.com)