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...

• Kicking Robots: Humanoids and the tech-industry hype machine (Harper’s Magazine)

• The Greatest Sentence Ever Written (Book Shop)

• Emmys Opening Skit (Nate Bargatze)

• How to Sound Like an Expert in Any AI Bubble Debate: There are 12 statistics, factoids, and studies that dominate every discussion about whether artificial intelligence is a bubble. Here’s a deep-dive into all 12 arguments. (Derek Thompson)

• The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming (Politico)

• Stephen Colbert on the End of The Late Show (GQ)

• The Top Three R&D Spenders over Time (Substack)

• Influencers with actual influence. Here’s Toronto Life’s annual list of 50 people “whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it.” (Toronto Life)

• What Is a Tariff Shock? Insights from 150 years of Tariff Policy. What are the short-run effects of tariff shocks on macro aggregates? (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)

• Streamflation intensifies as Netflix, Disney+, et. al. continue raising prices (Source: Techspot)
  

• Bitcoin Disconnecting From Nasdaq (Source: Apollo)
  

• Peaking google searches has not tended to be good news for performance (@mastersinvest)
  

What are you reading or listening to?