Be in the know. 40 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Guy Fieri’s Bacon-Wrapped Danger Dogs Are a Ticket to Flavortown (Bloomberg)
  2. Manchin warns Dems about going it alone on Biden’s spending plan (Fox Business)
  3. Investors Need to Watch the Labor Shortage. Here’s Why. (Barron’s)
  4. Tiger Cubs: How Julian Robertson built a hedge fund dynasty (Financial Times)
  5. Lumber Prices Slump As Historic Boom Hits A Wall (ZeroHedge)
  6. The Best Investment of All: The People You Love the Most (New York Times)
  7. Fund Managers Are Ignoring Meme Stocks. That’s a Good Thing. (Barron’s)
  8. Brinker Stock Looks Set to Soar on Chili’s Comeback (Barron’s)
  9. Hedge fund stars shy away from the limelight (Financial Times)
  10. Banks Need Loan Growth to Keep Rallying. These Stocks Already Have It. (Barron’s)
  11. Why Boeing Could Fly High Again (Barron’s)
  12. Charlie Munger’s Book Recommendation List (CMQ)
  13. Driving the undriveable Ferrari (Financial Times)
  14. Payne: When I was a kid, getting a job was like winning the lottery (Fox Business)
  15. 4 Undervalued Stocks With Momentum (Morningstar)
  16. Dividends Are the Next Oil Catalyst. Here Are the Stocks that Could Benefit. (Barron’s)
  17. Natural-Gas Prices Stir Heading Into Summer (Barron’s)
  18. Peter Lynch on Common Investor Mistakes (Novel Investor)
  19. One stunning chart shows just how much faster the US labor market is recovering now compared to the financial crisis (Business Insider)
  20. A Wave of Global Spending Is Great News for Humanity (and Investors) (Barron’s)
  21. The Stock Market’s Long Run of Nothing Continued Last Week. What to Know. (Barron’s)
  22. Solar Power’s Land Grab Hits a Snag: Environmentalists (Wall Street Journal)
  23. Facebook’s Marketplace Faces Antitrust Probes in EU, U.K. (Wall Street Journal)
  24. iPhone? AirPods? MacBook? You Live in Apple’s World. Here’s What You Are Missing. (Wall Street Journal)
  25. Why Does Anyone Care About a Superyacht? (Wall Street Journal)
  26. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett building nuclear reactor in coal-rich Wyoming (New York Post)
  27. G-7 Strikes Historic Deal to Revamp Global Tax on Tech Firms (Bloomberg)
  28. How Ronald Read managed to accumulate a dividend portfolio worth $8 million (DGI)
  29. Emerging-Market Stocks in Pole Position to Gain as World Reopens (Bloomberg)
  30. Rosneft Warns of ‘Severe’ Oil Shortage Amid Hasty Energy Shift (Bloomberg)
  31. Bonds Aren’t Freaking Out About Inflation (Bloomberg)
  32. S.-China Trade Relationship Significantly Imbalanced, Tai Says (Bloomberg)
  33. Crypto investor Vignesh Sundaresan: ‘It’s the NFT that changed the world’ (Financial Times)
  34. Royal Caribbean sets 2021 cruises in Florida, Texas and Alaska (CNBC)
  35. Interactive Brokers founder says problem with AMC Entertainment memes: ‘People…will lose a very substantial amount of money’ (MarketWatch)
  36. Pete Najarian Sees Unusual Options Activity In Tapestry And IQIYI (Benzinga)
  37. Electric Car Batteries Are Turning This Country Into an Actual Hellscape (Futurism)
  38. Bill Ackman’s SPAC Is in Talks to Buy a Stake in Universal Music —But So Far It’s Not Music to Investors’ Ears (Institutional Investor)
  39. The Pied Piper of SPACs (New Yorker)
  40. Lots of Liquidity (Yardeni)