Thursday Morning Reads

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  • ‘Stonks’ Aren’t the Only Reason Why Businesses Should Know Their Memes: Know Your Meme, a leading online encyclopedia for memes, wants to turn its huge database into a profitable software tool for tracking internet trends. (Bloomberg)

  • The Period of Abundance Is Over: Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine, worries that the Federal Reserve is overreacting in the fight against inflation. He expects a severe slowdown of the economy and says how investors can navigate today’s challenging market environment. A conversation with the Bond King. (The Market)

  • A Job Market Anomaly Begins to Correct: After diverging for awhile, business and household surveys of employment are headed in the same direction again: Up. (Bloomberg)

  • San Francisco Braces for Epic Commercial Real Estate Crash: The properties most at risk are mid- to lower-tier buildings purchased near the peak of the market (San Francisco Standard)

  • Russia Privately Warns of Deep and Prolonged Economic Damage Confidential document contrasts with upbeat public statements Report says key sectors face sharp drop in output, brain drain. (Bloomberg)

  • The Long Unraveling of the Republican Party: Three books explore a history of fractious extremism that predates Donald Trump. (The Atlantic)

  • In Montauk, Big Money Moves In On a Surfers’ Paradise: The acres overlooking a prize stretch of Long Island’s East End were empty for years. Now they’ve been sold in multimillion-dollar deals. It’s been the talk of the beach all summer. (New York Times)