Links - 9/30/2020
“It almost doesn’t matter what you read. Eventually, you will read enough things (and your interests will lead you there) that it will dramatically improve your life. Just like the best workout for you is one you’re excited enough to do every day, I would say for books, blogs, tweets, or whatever—anything with ideas and information and learning—the best ones to read are the ones you’re excited about reading all the time.” —Naval Ravikant (“The Almanack of Naval Ravikant”)
Initiative on Quality Shareholders Highlights - by Lawrence A. Cunningham (LINK)
Five Hacks for Making Better Investment Decisions - by Sanjay Bakshi (video) (LINK)
This Preferred From a John Malone-Controlled Company Offers an 8% Yield (LINK)
Newly issued preferred stock from Qurate Retail, the top home-shopping business controlled by media mogul John Malone, offers investors a lofty yield of more than 8%.
The preferred (ticker: QRTEP) has an 8% annual dividend and a maturity in 2031, and it finished Friday at $94.12, up $2.37. The preferred trades at a discount to its face value of $100. This results in a current yield of around 8.5% and a yield to maturity of about 8.75%.
Disney to Lay Off 28,000 U.S. Theme Park Workers and Others as Covid Takes Its Toll (LINK)
Has Everything Changed? An Update from Raoul Pal (video, starting around the 15-minute mark) (LINK)
Why the 2020s will be a decade of dividends for the Energy Sector [July 2020 Ned Davis Research report] (LINK)
Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is ‘Very Likely to Work,’ Studies Suggest (LINK)
Introducing the Green Premiums: A powerful tool for understanding clean energy and climate change. - by Bill Gates (LINK)
Lay of the Landscape (LINK)
Invest Like the Best Podcast: Modest Proposal – Better, Cheaper, Faster: Why Companies that Reduce Friction Win (LINK)
The Daily Stoic Podcast: Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman Talk About Their Newest Book, Lives of the Stoics (LINK)
6 Lessons From Stoic Philosophy That Can Make Your Life Better Today - by Ryan Holiday (LINK)
More liquid water found on — under — Mars! (LINK)
The Most Complicated Vaccine Campaign in History (LINK)
“One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.” —Lao Tzu