Monday, March 23, 2020

Links

BIN There, Done That: How to Reduce the Sources of Forecasting Error - by Michael Mauboussin and Dan Callahan (LINK)

Value Investing with Legends Podcast: Michael Mauboussin - Finding Value in a Crisis (LINK)

Berkshire Hathaway and the Coronavirus Crash (LINK)

Preserving Optionality: Preparing for the Unknown (LINK)

Fed Unveils Major Expansion of Market Intervention ($) (LINK)
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s whatever-it-takes moment arrived Monday. 
The central bank signaled it would do practically anything—extending loans to big and small businesses, backstopping funds to municipalities and purchasing hundreds of billions of dollars of government debt—to help an American economy in a race against time.
A Viral Market Meltdown IV: Preparing for a post-virus World - by Aswath Damodaran (LINK)

Francis Collins speaks about the coronavirus, his faith, and an unusual friendship. [H/T @pcordway] (LINK)

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For Audible Members, the current sale ($6.95 each) has many titles of note:



The Evolution of Everything by Matt Ridley

The Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein

The Clayton M. Christensen Reader

Platform Revolution

Sam Walton: Made in America

Basic Economics, Fifth Edition by Thomas Sowell

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer

Proof: The Science of Booze by Adam Rogers

The Federalist Papers

The History of the United States, 2nd Edition (The Great Courses)

The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane

The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence (The Great Courses)

The Joy of Science (The Great Courses)

The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner

I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong

Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth: Programs 1-6

Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved)

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

Billions & Billions by Carl Sagan

Spillover by David Quammen