The weekend is here! Pour yourself a cup of coffee, sit outside and get ready for our longer reads of the 4-day weekend:
• $100 Billion Wealth Migration Shifts US Economy’s Center of Gravity South: Some 2.2 million people have moved to the southeast in just over two years. That’s roughly the population of Houston. (Bloomberg)
• The super connector that built Sam Bankman-Fried’s celebrity world: Michael Kives, a former Hollywood agent, connected the founder of FTX with Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom, Bill Clinton and others. His company got $700 million in exchange, according to a lawsuit. (New York Times)
• The Stradivarius Murders: Police say four very valuable violins went missing after a collector and his daughter died. Then a lot of stories started to unfold. (business week) see also The violin doctor: Trusted to repair some of the most legendary and expensive instruments in the world. How does John Becker manage to unlock the sound of a Stradivarius? (Chicago magazine)
• The Air Jordan Drop So Hot It Blew A Suspected $85M Ponzi Scheme: Michael Malekzadeh’s Zadeh Kicks has made millions by taking big pre-sale orders for coveted sneakers at low prices and scrambling to fill them. Then came the Air Jordan 11 Cool Grey. (business week)
• The hunt for Judah P. Benjamin, the Confederacy’s chief spy: Suspected of orchestrating Lincoln’s assassination, the South’s most prominent Jew has fled to London to start a new life as a top lawyer. The US government secretly tried to take him home to face justice. (Tablet)
• out of nature: Why we can’t rid nature of us (New Atlantis)
• The Supreme Court decides not to destroy democracy in the United States: Six judges decided not to burn the people’s right to govern themselves to the ground. (Voice)
• How Fox News (Yes, Fox News) Beat “The Tonight Show” Greg Gutfeld has installed his brand of insulting conservatism as the institutional voice of the next generation of Fox News viewers. And it catches up. (New York Times)
• “People are like, Wow!” : the man who tries to make condoms sexy: It has been said that condoms share marketing characteristics with napalm and funerals. But it is Ben Wilson’s mission to make us believe that they are the key to human happiness. (The Guardian)
• The mystic of Paul Simon: On “Seven Psalms”, the artist continues his spiritual search, imagining a divine presence only to question his borders. (New Yorker)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview with Ilana Weinstein, Founder and CEO of IDW Group, the leading recruiter of fund managers and traders for many of the biggest hedge funds. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs and Boston Consulting Group, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School.
Real estate recessions tend to start before a general recession begins
Source: @MikeZaccardi
