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Sunday links: stressful investments

Abnormal Returns

engadget.com) Startups The funding crunch for the last wave of startups is coming. noahpinion.substack.com) Some math behind putting Social Security back on solid footing. axios.com) The economic schedule for the coming week. (tker.co) Amazon Amazon ($AMZN) is pushing pause on further HQ2 development in Arlington, VA.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

The Big Picture

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

The Big Picture

Elizabeth Burton is Goldman Sachs asset management’s client investment strategist. Previously she was Chief Investment Officer at various state pension funds, including Maryland and Hawaii. I, I found this to be really an intriguing conversation with somebody who, whose investment charge is unconstrained. Two reasons.

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

The Big Picture

They have $37 billion in clients and their own funds, of which they have invested across a variety of disciplines from credit to strategic capital, as well as taking companies private and helping them grow into something more substantial than they’ve been in the past. It was between corporate law and investment banking.

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Transcript: Liz Hoffman

The Big Picture

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

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Transcript: Steve Case

The Big Picture

? ?. The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Steve Case on AOL, Startups & Venture , is below. Revolution is the outgrowth of his family office that does everything from seed to venture, to growth investing. And if you are at all interested in technology, venture, startups, entrepreneurship, I suspect you will also.

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Transcript: Brad Gerstner

The Big Picture

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Capital & Invest America , is below. Brad Gerstner is a founder and investor in technology startups. They invest primarily in private and public companies. And he had a little startup RV company called Forest River. I have an extra special guest.