Hockey is Coming Back, but What About High Interest Rates and Movies?

A selection of articles from around the web

  • Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us The coronavirus pandemic blazed across 2020. Many countries repeatedly contained it. The United States did not. >20 million Americans have been infected, >350,000 have died. Two vaccines have been developed and approved in record time. President-elect Joe Biden has promised 100 million vaccinations in 100 days. The winter months will still be abysmally dark, but every day promises to bring a little more light. (The Atlantic)

  • The 10 Ways Renewable Energy’s Boom Year Will Shape 2021 2020 was the year of positive surprises for the environment in a way that very few saw coming. It was the breakout year in sustainability and infrastructure. (Bloomberg)

  • Ultra-Low Interest Rates Are Here to Stay: 2021 Central Bank Guide Central banks are set to spend 2021 maintaining their ultra-easy monetary policies even with the global economy expected to accelerate away from last year’s coronavirus-inflicted recession. (Bloomberg)

  • NHL sells naming rights to 4 re-aligned divisions A recent decision by league to allow small advertisements on player helmets and they will be launching a Canadian Division. (CBC)

  • Jeff Flake: My Fellow Republicans, Trump Is Destroying Us There is power in standing up to the rank corruptions of a demagogue. (Flake is a former Republican senator from Arizona) (New York Times)

  • The Real Estate Collapse of 2020: The pandemic devastated the housing industry this year, but there were a few flickers of life. (New York Times)

  • Hollywood changed this year. Some things will never go back to the way they were This has been the craziest, most unpredictable and momentous year in the history of the film industry. The pandemic compressed perhaps as much as ten years of change into one year. (CNN)

  • Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism The creation of the union, a rarity in Silicon Valley, follows years of increasing outspokenness by Google workers. Executives have struggled to handle the change. (New York Times)

  • China Wants to Invest in the Arctic. Why Doesn’t Canada? While Canada ignores the North’s economic potential, China is poised to make inroads (Walrus)

Must Read Articles to Kick Off 2020

To start of the year we have a small selection of articles to read.

  • The Day Steph Curry Made 105 3-Point Shots in a Row Suppose Curry has an unworldly 80% chance of making every 3-point shot he takes in practice. Even if he takes 500 consecutive 3-point shots, the chances of making 105 in a row is less than one in 200 million. (Bloomberg)

  • Here are the 24 most exciting electric cars coming in 2021 With the UK ban on new petrol cars less than a decade away, the next 12 months are set to be the busiest ever for an industry accelerating towards an electric future. Still a lack of trucks and where are the station wagons? (Wired)

  • A Monster Wind Turbine Is Upending an Industry G.E.’s giant machine, which can light up a small town, is stoking a renewable-energy arms race. (New York Times)

  • The Good News You Might Have Missed Last Year Yes, there were bright spots even in a pandemic year. (Bloomberg)

  • How to Prepare Your Portfolio for the New Year Diversification is key because rotational shifts we are now seeing are happening so quickly. Diversification needs to happen not just across sectors, but also across market cap, geographies, asset classes, and within asset classes. (Barron’s)

  • The Made-Up Conspiracy A Republican bid to deny Biden’s victory is another worrying Trumpist disinformation ploy (Persuasion)

  • A Caveman Would Never Do CrossFit. Why There’s Nothing Natural About Exercise A new book debunks popular myths, including ‘that your inner primal macho ripped hunter-gatherer ancestor is who you were meant to be’ (Wall Street Journal)