Thursday Links: An Increasingly Automated World

markets

• Bonds, stocks AND gold are all having a good year. (carsongroup.com)
• Utilities crush it in 2024. (on.spdji.com)
• Market coverages, including global markets, updated through Q3. (novelinvestor.com)

crypto

• MicroStrategy ($MSTR) isn’t the only company with Bitcoin on its balance sheet. (blockworks.co)
• SEC is not done with Ripple. (theverge.com)

Finance

• Election betting is another sign that gambling and trading are becoming indistinguishable. (sherwood.news)
• Wall Street wants to sell private credit fund to retail investors. (wsj.com)
• Why it took years for the SEC to implement a new market surveillance system. (sherwood.news)

immobility

• There’s only so much you can do to transform your spare office space. (sherwood.news)
• Is the worst of the CRE price drops over? (fastcompany.com)
• Who wouldn’t want corner retail in their neighborhood? (bloomberg.com)

overall

• Vietnam is short of workers. (restofworld.org)
• Japanese businesses embrace foreign workers. (nytimes.com)
• Add Russia to the list of countries trying to increase the birth rate. (semafor.com)

Economy

• Weekly initial jobless claims return to bottom. (calculatedriskblog.com)
• The ISM Services index is still in expansion mode. (bonddad.blogspot.com)
• The wave of mortgage refinancing is here. (bloomberg.com)
• Heavy truck sales remain there. (calculatedriskblog.com)

Earlier, about Abnormal Returns

• Long-form links: a hierarchy of values. (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed at our Wednesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Personal Finance Links: Enjoy Your Money (abnormalreturns.com)
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Mixed medium

• Stop asking people what they do for a living. (wsj.com)
• Status games rule everything around us. (youngmoney.co)
• Telling is not a superpower. (blairbellecurve.com)