Be in the know. 25 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Thrill-seeking traders send ‘meme stocks’ soaring as crypto tumbles (Financial Times)
  2. The rise of crypto laundries: how criminals cash out of bitcoin (Financial Times)
  3. White House Budget Shows Focus on Wealth Redistribution, Not Growth (Bloomberg)
  4. This Just-Approved Amgen Drug Is the First to Hit a Hard Target in Cancer (Barron’s)
  5. Housing Supply Shortage Hits Pending Home Sales in April (Barron’s)
  6. GM Restarts Several Assembly Plants as Global Chip Shortage Begins to Ease (Barron’s)
  7. Watch CNBC’s full interview with Liberty Media’s John Malone on WarnerMedia-Discovery deal (CNBC)
  8. Big Oil Had a Bad Week. Why That’s Good News for Investors. (Barron’s)
  9. Natural Gas Prices Are Rising. Here Is the Stock to Play It. (Barron’s)
  10. Apple Stock Could Drop 30% If iPhones Sales Slow, Analyst Says (Barron’s)
  11. Biogen’s Alzheimer’s Drug Faces Its Moment of Truth. Biotech Investors Are Watching. (Barron’s)
  12. From Graham to Buffett and Beyond (Columbia)
  13. This Might Be the Most Bizarre Baseball Highlight in Years (Wall Street Journal)
  14. U.S. Corporate Bond Spreads Hit 14-Year Low as Economy Resurges (Bloomberg)
  15. Market sentiment readings suggest investors are fearful even as the S&P 500 nears record high (Business Insider)
  16. Costco is seeing inflation abound, impacting a slew of consumer products (CNBC)
  17. Millions of Americans in 24 states are set to lose unemployment benefits (CNBC)
  18. Here’s the firepower the Pentagon is asking for in its $715 billion budget (CNBC)
  19. President Biden is banking on a $3.6 trillion tax hike on wealthy Americans and big corporations. (New York Times)
  20. Carnival gets OK from CDC on port plans to restart cruising (USA Today)
  21. Why NASA Scientists Are So Excited by New Hints of Organic Compounds on Mars (Futurism)
  22. Scientists Say This Is the Maximum Human Lifespan (Futurism)
  23. Better Thinking & Incentives: Lessons From Shakespeare (Farnam Street)
  24. Americans Will Hit the Road With Highest Fuel Price Since 2014 (Bloomberg)
  25. Sam Zell’s success in business in seven rules (mrzepczynski)