The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish blend coffee, grab a seat by the pool and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads:

Hedge Funds Might Be Under Scrutiny — But These Rising Stars Are Their Future (Institutional Investor)
Today’s IPO Market Is Not the Next Dot-Com Bubble (Barron’s)
Is Luxury Weed the New Status Symbol? $950 sculptural water pipes at Barneys, cannabis packed in cut crystal decanters, and vape pens designed with executives in mind — is stoner culture as we knew it over forever? (Wall Street Journal Magazine)
Who Gets to Own the West? A new group of billionaires is shaking up the landscape. (New York Times)
The Rise of Junk Science: Fake publications are corrupting the world of research — and influencing real news (the Walrus)
King of the Snitches: How a Fashion Photographer Duped Drug Cartels and the DEA (Bloomberg Businessweek)
The Simple Idea Behind Einstein’s Greatest Discoveries (Quanta Magazine)
The Impossible Dream: How have we come to build a whole culture around a futile, self-defeating enterprise: the pursuit of happiness? (Lapham’s Quarterly)
Can a Dance Sensation’s Viral Moment Last Forever? (Topic)
Took You By Surprise: John and Paul’s Lost Reunion (Longreads)
Be sure to check out our Masters in a Business interview with Andrew Ang, director of BlackRock’s $210 billion factor strategies group. A former professor of finance at Columbia Business School, Ang is the author of “Asset Management: A Systematic Approach to Factor Investing.”

China: Global Competitiveness Index
relates to Viral Moments and the Impossible Dream of Happiness
Source: World Economic Forum

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