Saving the Planet With Electric Cars Means Strangling This Desert: Mining lithium and copper to supply the battery boom and fight climate change is wrecking a fragile ecosystem in Chile. (Bloomberg)
Buyout Firms Are Gorging on Credit. This Investor Has Concerns (Institutional Investor)
A cognitive scientist explains why humans are so susceptible to fake news and misinformation (Nieman Lab)
The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution: Society figured out how to manage the waste produced by the Industrial Revolution. We must do the same thing with the Internet today. (Washington Monthly)
The Self-Destruction of American Power (Foreign Affairs)
Hong Kong Is On the Frontlines of a Global Battle For Freedom (Time)
The Rate Cut the Economy Doesn’t Need, but the Markets Desperately Want (Barron’s)
Why Japan isn’t afraid of robots (Financial Times)
Calpers’ Dilemma: Save the World or Make Money? (Wall Street Journal)
Fund Managers Are More Moral Than You’d Think (Bloomberg)
Happy investing,
The team at TAMIM