Linkfest: January 28, 2018

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What I am reading today

Dirty Money and Pharmapalooza (Trends... Find them, ride them and get off.)
'Aadhaar' is Oxford's first Hindi word of the year http://toi.in/kADiCb/a24gk pic.twitter.com/kURM3C2K7j (Nandan Nilekani)


Mallorca: A paradise for food lovers (Forbes India Magazine)
12 Ways to Get Smarter in One Infographic (Visual Capitalist)
Bill Spitz, former CIO of the Vanderbilt University Endowment, on the manager selection process: http://capitalallocatorspodcast.com/Spitz/  @tseidespic.twitter.com/Qxn7ceXmsJ (Devin Haran)
The missing link (Views on Life & on Equity Investing)
Repay or Invest? (Subramoney)
Trusted Third Parties are Moral Hazards (Elaine Ou)
What is stochastically the best book to read about Japan? (Marginal REVOLUTION)
The Trump in Davos Edition (Felix Salmon)

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