Weekend Reads - Sep 06, 2025

Want better returns? Forget Risk. Focus on Fear; Finding Edges; Building Resilience To Inflation; Volume Shocks and Overnight Returns; and more...

• Want better returns? Forget Risk. Focus on Fear (The Economist)

• Finding Edges (Robot Wealth)

• Building Resilience To Inflation (Eagle Point Capital)

• Volume Shocks and Overnight Returns (Quant Trading Rules)

• Jeff Rosenberg – The Past, Present, and Future of Systematic Fixed Income (📺 Flirting with Models)

• Why Govt employees get paid more yet deliver less? | Growwing India Podcast ft. Karthik Muralidharan (📺 Thrive by Groww)

• The Parallels of Past and Present in Finance - Mark Higgins (🎧 The Meb Faber Show)

• Common Diversification Misconceptions (RCM Alternatives)

• The New Martial Plan (Carlyle)

• Did the U.S. Really Grow Out of Its World War II Debt? (IMF)

• The Case for Small Buyouts (RCP/Advisors)

• Mind the Gap: The Strategic Risk of Skipping a Vintage in Private Equity (CommonFund)

• Cross-Sectional Momentum: Results from Commodities and Equities (Relative Value Arbitrage)

• Muon Optimizer for Dense Linear Layer Explained | Newton-Schulz + Momentum (📺 Deep Learning with Yacine)

• Japan's Labor Market under Demographic Decline: Evolving Dynamics and Macroeconomic Implications by UEDA Kazuo (BoJ)

• Is Gold an Inflation Hedge? by Baur (SSRN)

• Tracking Speculation from Expectations by Su and Wen (SSRN)

• Pricing of Corporate Bonds: Evidence From a Century-Long Cross-Section by Ghaderi et al. (SSRN)