Bumper reading list this week. Enjoy!
- Asia’s live-streaming industry promises intimacy. So why are users so lonely?: Internet celebrities stream themselves singing, talking, eating, and sleeping – for money. Meet the stars & their fans.
- Corporate governance case studies: Edited by professor Mak Yuen Teen.
- The unwinnable trade war: Everyone loses in the US-Chinese clash – but especially Americans.
- Preventing digital feudalism: Reforming the digital economy so that it serves collective ends is the defining economic challenge of our time.
- Perspectives from 30+ years in the funds industry: Interview with Blair Pickerell.
- Interview with David Harquail: On Franco-Nevada’s new long-life assets and succession plans.
- A value investor defends value investing (despite its recent track record): Joel Greenblatt says if you do good valuation work, the market eventually will agree.
- Long-term building in Japan: Japan’s Ise Shrine and Hōryū-ji Temple offer lessons in how to make a building, or an institution, last through millennia.
- Mongolia’s Khaltmaa Battulga: The other populist president with a business background and ties to Putin.
- Private equity: The inside story of Equis and its partners’ $800 million bounty.