Weekly Digest 4/17/20
Happy Friday, April 17th!
Hope you all had a great Week 2. Please find below our SWS-curated round-up of interesting articles, resources, information, and opportunities related to real world finance that may be useful to you!
Watch an interview of Stanford professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on Fox News discussing “What is the actual death rate of COVID-19”. Professor Bhattacharya teaches ECON 126: Economics of Health and Medical Care and has been working with antibody testing in Santa Clara among other projects related to COVID-19. He also wrote an op-ed for the WSJ a few weeks ago which you can check out here.
If you are looking to learn more about finance, but don’t know where to start, you should read Matt Levine’s Bloomberg Column titled “Money Stuff”. This column addresses topics that deal with banks, hedge funds, the Fed and more. At first, it may be difficult to understand, but I assure you after a few articles, you will understand it a lot more.
Check out a conversation titled “Has China Won?: The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy”conducted by The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. This discussion between Richard Fontaine, CEO, Center for a New American Security and Kishore Mahbubani, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Research Institute (moderated by Ivo H. Daalder) breaks down the geopolitical contest for technological, ideological, and military supremacy between China and the US that will define the 21st century.
If you want to learn one of the basics of Microfinance, check out this segment on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver which explains predatory lending and payday loans in a very understandable way.
Looking for some more challenging reading? Here is a Seeking Alpha article on position weighting in Wealth And Income Portfolios, QQQ, and SPY. There are summary statements along the way for clarity and a portfolio example.
As always please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. Enjoy the weekend!
Cheers,
The SWS Exec Team