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Weekend MegaLinkfest: 31 July, 2020

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

The Panopticon is already here (Atlantic)

The American Caste System (Guardian)

My mid-life crisis as a Russian sailor (Outside)

An unexpected visit to Pakistan (Team BHP)

Spoof: Biden’s VP shortlist (Onion)

Can masks kill you while running? (BI)

Our PM and CMs are puppets of the IAS (TOI)

Burnt Sugar (Avni Doshi)

The Sudden Change (Qais Akbar Omar)

The truth about Allah Baksh Samroo (True Indology)

A thread on Roman Treasure (Gareth Harney)

White Mughals, Whitewashing, Whitesplaining (First Post)

History of India’s Chola Empire (Thought)

Hitler never used Swastika (Swarajya)

On the Moplah Riots (Sunday Guardian)

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Deepak Parekh on Commercial Real Estate

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Zuckerberg on Jio

Hat Tip : TS

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Linkfest: 31 July, 2020

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

RIL’s pre-tax profit dips 40% (BS)

Big Tech rack up record profits (Market Watch)

Fed is infantilizing investors (Seth Klarman)

Will market coupling destroy the IEX monopoly? (Candor)

Indigo sets its sights on liquidity (Mint)

Adani group enters new sectors (Forbes)

How rich people go broke (Common Sense)

Is Systematic Value dead? (Larry Swedroe)

Kodak stock up 2000% in a day (InvestmentU)

Buffett pulled off the greatest trade ever (AM)

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2020 is 1890

Hat Tip : Jamie Catherwood

From an article in Spectator Magazine written in 1890.