Monday links: increasing connection

Strategy

• How can you better stay the course with your investment plan? (optimisticallie.com)
• Fintwit is dead. Long live Fintwit. (howardlindzon.com)

Finance

• Why Rocket ($RKT) is buying mortgage servicer Mr. Cooper ($COOP). (thebasispoint.com)
• Private equity and private credit work hand-in-hand. (blogs.cfainstitute.org)

Blackrock

• Blackrock ($BLK) CEO Larry Fink wants you to buy more private assets. (wsj.com)
• Larry Fink wants investors to have better data on private equity. (semafor.com)

Big Tech

• Google ($GOOGL) has devolved into mediocrity. (om.co)
• Have Apple ($AAPL) hardware products jumped the shark? (herbgreenberg.com)
• Big Tech is scouring rural America for places to put data centers. (wsj.com)

Science

• The disruption of basic scientific research will only be felt down the road. (msn.com)
• We’ll never know the impact of biomedical research cuts. (theconversation.com)

Economy

• Why the market is reacting strongly to the potential for tariffs. (ritholtz.com)
• On the spike in economic policy uncertainty. (capitalspectator.com)

Earlier on Abnormal Returns

• Adviser links: knocking down the doors. (abnormalreturns.com)
• What you missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
• Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
• You can now follow us on Bluesky. (bsky.app)
• Are you signed up for daily e-mail newsletter? Well, you should be. (abnormalreturns.com)

Mixed media

• Are we any closer to home delivery by drone? (wsj.com)
• Sometimes it’s the smallest tech issues that bother us the most. (arstechnica.com)