On today’s show we discuss
- People aren’t doing much tinkering in their retirement accounts
- Airlines have declared bankruptcy 66 times since 2000
- Cullen Roche on the COVID-19 Aid package
- Stock picker’s market
- Are Buffett and Munger slowing down?
- Will this recession destroy private equity?
- How the Coronavirus might reduce income inequality
- Quantifying the tradeoff between closing the economy versus leaving it open
- Garnishing relief money
- 8% of people pay 75% of overdraft fees
- Disney–workers versus investors
- Amazon slashes affiliates commisions
- Amazon Shareholder Letter
- Amazon pays a butt ton of payroll tax
- Mary Meeker charts
- If buybacks are bad, what about the alternative?
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