Be in the know. 19 key reads for Saturday…

  1. How Media Mogul John C. Malone Quietly Became America’s Largest Landowner (Maxim)
  2. Share Buybacks Surge in China (Wall Street Journal)
  3. Dividend Increases Are Expected From Oreo Maker Mondelez and 3 Others (Barron’s)
  4. The Big Obstacle on the Road to Electric Vehicles (Wall Street Journal)
  5. Toys R Us turns to tech to revive defunct chain (Financial Times)
  6. When Good Intentions Go Bad: My Interview with Social Psychologist Jonathan Haidt [The Knowledge Project Ep. #61] (Farnam Street)
  7. There Was Another Concert in 1969 That Changed Pop Music (Bloomberg)
  8. Ten Juicy Secrets About Restaurants I Learned Working as Nobu’s Maitre D’ (Bloomberg)
  9. Josh Brown: Sometimes the best returns come from CEOs you’ve never heard of (CNBC)
  10. ‘Top Gun 2’: Everything we know about ‘Maverick’ after Tom Cruise drops first trailer (USA Today)
  11. Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong put a flag on the moon. Here’s what you can and can’t see in the iconic photo (USA Today)
  12. How Attorney General Bill Barr Built A $40 Million Fortune (Forbes)
  13. Hedge Fund Investor Letters 2019 Q2 (Insider Monkey)
  14. Hedge Fund and Insider Trading News: Anthony Scaramucci, Oaktree Capital Management, ICF International Inc (ICFI), Unit Corporation (UNT), Central Garden & Pet Co (CENT), and More (Insider Monkey)
  15. Allison Schrager Discusses Monetary Policy (Podcast) (Bloomberg)
  16. Does Human Behavior Move the Markets? (Goldman Sachs Exchanges)
  17. 100 Best Adventures in America on Public Lands (Men’s Journal)
  18. WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has reportedly cashed out of over $700 million ahead of its IPO (TechCrunch)
  19. A Design Lover’s Guide to Montreal (Architectural Digest)