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Weekend Mega Linkfest: 07 February, 2020

Some off beat reads for the weekend:

Cornavirus tests China (Time)

All you wanted to know about the Bodoland Accord (Guwahati Times)

How McKinsey destroyed the Middle Class (Atlantic)

How Carlos Ghosn escaped Japan (SCMP)

History: The Battle of Diu (IWTK)

The uneasy birth of India’s Constitution (Tripurdaman Singh)

I used ransomware to sabotage my boss (Bloomberg)

As Amma lay dying (Vaasanthi)

The Bhujia King (Mint)

Kashmir Day in Pakistan (Naila Inayat)

Agra: Beyond the Taj (LHI)

Video: The Empty Streets of Wuhan (ATimes)

Shikara: The struggle against forgetting (Rahul Pandita)

My life goes up and down like Stock Market (J Mathrubootham)

China Diary (Vaswati Dasgupta)

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Hitler & the Markets

Interesting Blast from the Past which tells us markets aren’t the great future discounting machine we think it is.

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Top Ten

Source: Benedict Evans

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Linkfest: 07 February, 2020

Some stuff I am reading today morning:

RBI realizes it’s bigger than it’s policy rate committee ( Mint )

Did foreign stock pickers read the Budget better ( ET )

SEBI issues guidelines for AIF benchmarking ( BS)

Emami sells cement business to Nirma Group ( Mint)

10 Bluechips with zero returns in a decade (Nooresh)

How Croma perfected its pitch (OB)

The Case against REITs (Alpha Architect)

Why have spinoffs underperformed in the last decade (AM)

Why value investors shouldn’t expect a massive comeback ( Institutional Investor )

Introducing Rolling Venture Funds (Angel List)

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The Disruption of TV

Source : Benedict Evans