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We discuss:
- Pros and cons of the new stimulus bill
- The psychology of round numbers in markets
- Tesla, Tesla, Tesla
- Learning the wrong lessons from 2020
- Robinhood is getting sued (and why it probably doesn’t matter)
- Markets shouldn’t be this easy
- The optimistic case for the 2020s
- The first $1 trillion mutual fund
- The biggest comeback of the year in the markets
- Covid’s impact on poverty
- Will the pandemic usher in UBI?
- Waiting for a crash is a terrible strategy
- My Tenet review and more
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Stories mentioned:
- Stimulus bill provides economic relief, for now
- $900 billion is the second largest stimulus bill in history
- This is not the way
- Tesla bulls double down
- The best is yet to come
- Robinhood accused of gamification
- Robinhood pays $65 million fine
- Vanguard Total Stock Market Index hits trillion dollar mark
- The 2020 terms of the year
- Nearly 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since this summer
- Monthly poverty will spike without CARES act unemployment benefits
- Reinventing Goldman Sachs
- Major antitrust ruling paves the way for studios to own their own theaters
- Waiting for a market crash is a terrible strategy
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