We often set aside articles that are longer, deserve a re-read, are broader in scope…or just for fun - for weekend reading. Below are some from this week - pour yourself a hot cup of coffee & enjoy...

• Friending (Scott Galloway)

• Foie Gras Retirement plan participants shouldn’t be force-fed private assets: Private equity and credit managers desperately want access to retirement plan participants. And steps are reportedly being taken to make that happen. I feel ambivalent at best about this. (Basis Pointing)

• Scapegoating the Algorithm: America’s epistemic challenges run deeper than social media. (Asterisk)

• Why Smart People Deliberately Kill Their Status (Listen Notes)

• Norway should buy Harvard: Academic excellence has never been more affordable. (DN)

• A growing share of US household assets is owned by people age 55+ (Source: Apollo)
  

• What’s Driving the Surge in U.S. Corporate Profits? (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

• Might Tariffs Get “Overturned”? “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general.” (The Big Picture)

• Chinese graphite is crucial to electric car batteries. Trump just put a 93.5% tariff on it. (CNN)

• Against Self-Optimization: The wellness industry sells you a version of yourself it can’t deliver. Hope lies elsewhere. (Plough)

• Lionel Messi’s superhuman form paces Inter Miami: “He is the one” (MLS Soccer)

• Inflation-Adjusted House Prices 2.0% Below 2022 Peak (Source: Calculated Risk)
  

What are you reading or listening to?