Be in the know. 30 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Buy This Insurance Conglomerate Stock. It’s a Miniature Berkshire Hathaway. (Barron’s)
  2. Central bank induced bond tumult stings big name hedge funds (Financial Times)
  3. How Intel plans to catch Samsung and TSMC and regain its dominance in the chip market (CNBC)
  4. 40 Defensive Stocks on Sale (morningstar)
  5. Here’s to Yellowstone, the Most-Watched Show Everyone Isn’t Talking About (vanityfair)
  6. Travel stocks rally, stay-at-home companies plunge as pandemic wanes and tourism rebounds (CNBC)
  7. House Approves $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Sending to Biden (Barron’s)
  8. Berkshire Earnings Are Out. What to Know. (Barron’s)
  9. The Latest Jobs Report Was Good, but Labor Issues Persist (Barron’s)
  10. Theories on Where the Workers Went (Barron’s)
  11. It’s the Weirdest Time in History for Finance. What to Know About Bubbles in Crytpos, Meme Stocks, and NFTs. (Barron’s)
  12. Vodafone Is Getting a Boost From Fintech in Africa. The Stock Is Due for a Rebound. (Barron’s)
  13. Workers Feel Emboldened. It’s the Start of a New Labor Movement. (Barron’s)
  14. Only the Wealthy Have Prospered in America? That Isn’t True. (Barron’s)
  15. Blade Stock Is Ready to Take Off. Just Don’t Call It the Uber of the Sky. (Barron’s)
  16. Gene Therapy Is a Huge Opportunity. It Pays to be Patient. (Barron’s)
  17. A bargain you can’t ignore: Small-cap stocks are trading at their second-biggest discount in 20 years (marketwatch)
  18. The Stay-at-Home Trade Is Over—With 1 Key Exception (Barron’s)
  19. Timberwolves Co-Owner Marc Lore Buys More Archer Aviation Stock (Barron’s)
  20. R. Donnelley & Sons and PAE Stock See Action From Activist Investors (Barron’s)
  21. Shake Shack Stock Gets an Upgrade. An Analyst Sees ‘Upside.’ (Barron’s)
  22. China turns inward: Xi Jinping, COP26 and the pandemic (Financial Times)
  23. Joe Biden meets Jay Powell as clock ticks on Fed chair decision (Financial Times)
  24. Buffett’s Cash Pile Tops Record With $149.2 Billion On Hand (Bloomberg)
  25. 2021 McLaren 765LT: An Extreme Supercar, Now Faster and Lighter (Wall Street Journal)
  26. What is the Metaverse? The Future Vision for the Internet (Wall Street Journal)
  27. Legendary Investor John Doerr on Picking Winners — From Google in 1999 to Solving the Climate Crisis Now (#543) (Tim Ferriss)
  28. Is Bitcoin Too Big to Fail? (institutionalinvestor)
  29. Joel Greenblatt Keynote Presentation: Ben Graham VIII Annual Conference (cfany)
  30. Is Value Investing Making A Comeback, Or Has It Been Here All Along? (finance-monthly)