Andy Serwer

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Why Does This Crazy Stock Market Keep Going Up? The stock market may no longer follow an old pattern of “reverting to the mean.” Blame it on index funds.

When will the Rasputin rally end? My Saturday story. www.barrons.com/articles/sto...
"Truly, this bull market is like the infamous Russian mystic Rasputin—it just can’t be killed off—what’s a squishy macro environment got to do to get some attention around here?

Oliver North and Fawn Hall, Key Figures in Iran-Contra Scandal, Are Married

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward weirdness. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

What PayPal, Affirm, and Klarna Reveal About the New Money Game Klarna, which replaced Affirm as Walmart’s exclusive buy-now, pay-later partner, looks to raise up to $1.27 billion at a $14 billion valuation in its upcoming IPO.

The PayPal mafia is hardly sleeping with the fishes. My Saturday story. www.barrons.com/articles/pay...

Citadel’s Ken Griffin on Markets, the Fed, and Building His Firm for the Next Century Griffin’s ambition, strategic vision, and tech savvy have propelled Citadel into Wall Street’s upper echelons. This could be just the start.

The New Mr. Big is the Most Ambitious Man on Wall Street. My Saturday story. www.barrons.com/articles/cit...

This CEO Follows the Buffett Playbook. He’s Winning. Tom Gayner is a long-time disciple of Buffett’s and Berkshire—and as such, has modeled Markel Group to a degree after that company.

There's this guy in Richmond, Virginia... My Saturday story. www.barrons.com/articles/tom...

Arthur Brooks on How Businesspeople—and Everyone Else—Can Get Happy We recently spoke to author and Harvard Business School professor Arthur Brooks upon the release of his latest book, The Happiness Files: Insights on Work and Life, a collection of his essays from th...

Come on Get Happy! My Saturday story. “Happiness is utterly mysterious to most folks. People think happiness is a feeling, which it isn’t. Feelings are related to happiness. Like the smell of your turkey is related to Thanksgiving dinner. It’s evidence of happiness." www.barrons.com/articles/art...

A W.N.B.A. Star Loves These Sneakers. She Gets Fined for Wearing Them.

Go Natalie! @moolah1962.bsky.social kicks A W.N.B.A. Star Loves These Sneakers. She Gets Fined for Wearing Them. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/n...

Buc-ee’s Is the Hottest, Craziest Rest Stop Chain in America Besides having between 80 to 100 gas pumps, each location carries a vast cornucopia of mostly comfort food—and endless racks of Buc-ee’s merch.

The Best Not-So-Little Rest Stop Based out of Texas. My Saturday story. "Our nation is deeply divided today in so many ways. Perhaps no demarcation is greater, though, than between those of us who know of, go to, and love Buc-ee’s, versus those who don’t."
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Thanks for the shout out @isabellamweber.bsky.social

Could You Have Landed a Job at Vogue in the ’90s? To work for Anna Wintour in Vogue's glory days, you had to know a little bit of everything. Take the quiz to find out if you would have made the grade.

Not sure I should be sharing, but I could have. "Could You Have Landed a Job at Vogue in the ’90s?" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Cuomo to Fight On in Mayor’s Race After Bruising Primary Loss to Mamdani

Hello @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social "Cuomo to Fight On in Mayor’s Race After Bruising Primary Loss to Mamdani" www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/n...

It’s July Fourth. Are You Ready for Yet Another American Revolution? America’s greatest tradition is nothing short of revolutionary.

You say you want a revolution, well you know... My Saturday story. www.barrons.com/articles/its...

Sly Stone, Maestro of a Multifaceted, Hitmaking Band, Dies at 82

Had to happen sometime, but makes me sad. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/a...

Private Markets Are Crowding Out Public Markets. Where’s the SEC? We’re witnessing a massive migration from capital activity regulated by the SEC into an ecosystem with much less oversight.

Lights are on, but nobody's home. My Saturday story. www.barrons.com/articles/pri...

The Highest-Paid CEO in America Is Someone You’ve Probably Never Heard Of CEO median pay rose 9.5% in 2024, less than the prior year but more than inflation and average worker pay. Shareholders did even better.

Average CEO pay is now $25 million. Where are the tariffs here? My Saturday story. www.barrons.com/articles/hig...

Mark Carney on the Labor Market, the U.S. Fed, and More: Interview From Our Archives Canada’s newly elected prime minister Mark Carney spoke with Barron’s 18 months ago.

From my convo with @mark-carney.bsky.social a while back. Who is this guy? www.barrons.com/articles/mar...

Scotts Miracle-Gro Has a Weed Problem. Can It Grow Again? A foray into marijuana didn’t pay off as hoped. The company is now refocusing on its traditional lawn and garden business, CEO Jim Hagedorn explains.

Weed B-gon! My Saturday story. www.barrons.com/articles/sco...

How Karis Dadson’s Icy Stare at Pig Shows Conquered TikTok Millions have been transfixed by videos of Karis Dadson, a California teenager who shows pigs at livestock competitions. She finds the whole thing very weird.

Karis Dadson, Pig Starerer. The ‘Iconic’ Stare That Conquered the Internet www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/s...

AQR’s Cliff Asness on the Trump Market, Warren Buffett, Investing Mistakes—and Hockey When you picture a quant hedge fund manager, you probably imagine a secretive, wildly idiosyncratic James Bond–villain type. Cliff Asness, who founded and runs AQR, one of the world’s biggest quant fu...

Hey Cliff Asness. Tell us how you REALLY feel. www.barrons.com/articles/aqr...

Exclusive: Mayor taps Laurene Powell Jobs, Google's Ruth Porat to lead supergroup of CEO advisers The list of luminaries set to join includes Sam Altman, Marc Benioff, Richard Dickson of Gap, Michelle Gass of Levi Strauss, and Tony Xu of DoorDash.

Go @adamlashinsky.bsky.social! Exclusive: Mayor taps Laurene Powell Jobs, Google’s Ruth Porat to lead supergroup of CEO advisers sfstandard.com/2025/03/17/l...

When Does This Become a Trump Market and a Trump Economy? Today, what’s meant by the Trump market is markedly different from what it suggested back in those heady days of December.

Nick Lowe said it best: "And so it goes...but where it's goin' no one knows!" My Saturday story. Ninety-two years ag Roosevelt: “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Current commander in chief today might say “the only thing certain is uncertainty itself.”

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“This will be great for the Wine and Champagne businesses in the U.S.,” he wrote.

Opinion | Dubai Is a Vision of the Future The city is dramatically rewriting the story of skilled migration.

Fascinating @polgreen.bsky.social I Went to Dubai, and Caught a Glimpse of the Future www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/o...

Blackstone vs. BlackRock: The Greatest Wall Street Frenemy Story Ever Told Stephen Schwarzman and Larry Fink are increasingly all up in each other’s business. Just look at BlackRock’s new Panama Canal deal.

"Can you believe people confuse US with THEM?" Odyssey of the Lions. My Saturday story. www.barrons.com/articles/bla...

Super Bowl bound! Go Commies!

A Tribute to Richard Parsons: He Lived His Best CEO Life and Much More Than Too Richard Parsons died on Dec. 26, 2024, at the age of 76.

In a mellow tone. My Saturday story. www.barrons.com/articles/ric...

Bezos Narrows Washington Post Opinion-Section Focus to ‘Personal Liberties and Free Markets’ The change is a pivot from the current objective to cover a range of views and prompted the resignation of the Post’s opinion editor, David Shipley.

"There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job." What? Why? www.wsj.com/business/med...

As Wall Street Chases Profits, Fire Departments Have Paid the Price (Gift Article) Fire engine manufacturing is now largely controlled by three companies. Around the country, prices have soared, and orders can take years to fulfill.

As Wall Street Chases Profits, Fire Departments Have Paid the Price www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

The Grateful Dead: What a Long, Lucrative Trip It’s Been The Dead made more money than any other touring band, says author David Davis, citing 2,400 gigs that generated over $400 million in ticket sales over 30 years.

Roll away. The Dew. My Saturday story. www.barrons.com/articles/gra...