10 Tuesday AM Reads

My Two-for-Tuesday morning prepare WFH reads:

• The Share of Individuals Who Are Mortgage-Free Is at an All-Time Excessive: Nearly 40% of US owners personal their properties outright as of 2022—a lot of them child boomers who refinanced when charges have been low. (Businessweek) see additionally Why Your Workplace Area Continues to Shrink: Regardless of greater than a billion sq. toes of empty workplace area within the US, a return to roomier layouts and personal places of work doesn’t appear to be within the playing cards. (Bloomberg)

• Satoshi Is Black: For some folks of shade, crypto isn’t in disaster. Within the midst of the FTX trial, I went to the Black Blockchain Summit to speak to the motion’s largest believers. (Wired)

• How you can keep away from shedding cash: My favorite perception from a brand new investing basic. (Behind the Balance Sheet) see additionally When Will We See New Highs Once more within the Inventory Market? We’re rather less than 4 years into the 2020s and half of these years have seen no new highs however there have already been loads of them this decade. (A Wealth of Common Sense)

• A report variety of $50 payments have been printed final 12 months. It’s not why you suppose: Final 12 months, the federal government printed 756,096,000 of these payments — the very best whole of the denomination printed in a single 12 months in additional than 40 years. why are you seeing extra $50s? Surprisingly, it has nothing to do with inflation — even when it might typically really feel as of late like an merchandise that used to price $20 now prices $50. (CNN)

• Congrats, Your Home Made You Wealthy. Now Promote It. Plenty of child boomers are going to promote their properties within the years forward. The trick is to beat the gang. (Wall Street Journal) see additionally Why does it price a lot to promote a home? From staging to fee bills, right here’s what to anticipate. (The Week)

• The most effective place for product critiques is … Reddit? The hive thoughts of the web is nice, for as soon as. Whether or not you’re on the lookout for a brand new TV or the perfect bagel in Brooklyn, you’re sure to come back throughout on-line critiques, and it’s arduous to search out one thing that feels reliable. There are loads of the reason why that is true, and it doesn’t seem like the state of affairs will get any higher quickly. Regardless of regulators and tech platforms’ greatest efforts, the billion-dollar pretend critiques business is simply too massive and complicated to cease, because the New York Occasions reported this week. (Vox)

• Sacha Baron Cohen Slams TikTok: “Creating Greatest Antisemitic Motion For the reason that Nazis” “Disgrace on you.” A gaggle of Jewish celebrities together with Debra Messing and Amy Schumer had a confrontational name with executives for the favored social media app. (The Hollywood Reporter) see additionally Antisemitism was rising on-line. Then Elon Musk’s X supercharged it. After neo-Nazi protests in Charlottesville, white supremacists have been confined largely to fringe web sites. Musk’s buy of Twitter modified that. (Washington Post)

• Work, Wheels, and Wooden: A dialog with Taylor Guitars and Singer Car Design. (Hagerty)

• Has New York lastly discovered an answer to its rat downside? Officers have employed an exterminator to kill town’s most infamous residents by gassing their burrows (The Guardian) see additionally NYC Manhole Covers: Historical past and How They’re Made: For those who look down on New York Metropolis’s streets, you’ll see fairly a cacophony of issues from manhole covers, to spray painted symbols, to crosswalks, and extra. (Untapped New York)

• David Letterman Ends Conspicuous Absence From ‘The Late Present’ The comic has visited many exhibits previously eight years — however not, till Monday night time, the one he hosted for 22 years. (New York Times)

Be sure you try our Masters in Business this week with Brad Gerstner, founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital. The tech-focused fund began in 2008 and invests in each private and non-private corporations. Gerstner started as an entrepreneur and has had a number of exits, together with journey startup NLG (to IAC). Openlist.com, (to Marchex) and Farecast (to MSFT). He additionally was an early investor in Zillow, Actual Self, Nor 1, Instacart, Expedia, Silver Rail Tech and Room 77. After returning $7B in income to its LPs, Altimeter manages at present manages $10B in property.

S&P 500 momentum not often goes from ‘oversold’ to ‘overbought’ inside one month.

Supply: @AndrewThrasher