In this week’s episode, we cover whether Warren Buffet’s most recent $9.7B investment in Dominion Energy means the bottom for oil & gas. (1:00)

We discuss how Kanye’s presidential announcement for 2020 still matters for the stock market regardless of what paperwork he has yet to submit. (5:00)

How COVID has renewed the idea of offshore talent and what that means for millennials. (17:30)

Lastly, we talk about antitrust, privacy, and possible business opportunities created with the new features in iOS 14. (21:45)

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* scroll to the end for a summary of predictions and a podcast recommendation.

💰 Berkshire Hathaway buys Dominion gas assets in a $9.7B deal.

Dominion Energy has scrapped a large pipeline project and sold its natural gas transmission business to Berkshire Hathaway, marking a big shift towards cleaner energy for the US utility — and another bet on fossil fuels by Warren Buffett.

The deal for Dominion’s gas assets gives Berkshire Hathaway Energy, a unit of Mr Buffett’s parent company that already runs a $100bn energy portfolio, ownership of almost 8,000 miles of natural gas transmission lines, and transport capacity of almost 21bn cubic feet a day.

The transaction also includes considerable storage facilities and partial ownership of the Cove Point LNG terminal, one of only six LNG export facilities in the country, which Berkshire Hathaway Energy will operate. Link

Intl. Business Times @IBTimes

Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway increases footprint on U.S. natural gas market with purchase of Dominion Energy's assets for around $10 billion

ibtimes.comWarren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Spends $10 Billion To Increase Hold In The Natural Gas MarketDominion Energy said it was giving up on its long-gestating Atlantic Coast Pipeline, first announced in 2014 alongside project partner Duke Energy.

7:42 PM ∙ Jul 6, 2020

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🇺🇸 How Kanye’s bid for president could matter to the stock market.

A controversial opinion is that Kanye could steal votes from Biden in important swing states and give Trump a fighting chance at re-election.

If that doesn’t happen and Joe Biden becomes President his planned tax reform would reverse a lot of Trump’s cuts and likely be reflected in public markets.

“I’m going to get rid of the bulk of Trump’s $2 trillion tax cut,” Biden said, “and a lot of you may not like that but I’m going to close loopholes like capital gains and stepped up basis.”

The Tax Policy Center calculated that almost 93% of the tax increases would be borne by the top 20% of households. The top 1% — those who make more than $837,000 — would see their tax burden jump by nearly $300,000, a roughly 17% reduction in after-tax income. Link

Biden also said he would raise the corporate tax rate to 28%, which he said would raise an estimated $1.3 trillion over the next decade. The Trump tax cuts had shrunk corporate taxes to 21% from 35%. Link

🚕 Uber to shift more engineering jobs to India.

Needless to say, Coronavirus has disrupted a lot of businesses that are now looking to cut costs and pivot to more profitable areas including some of the biggest technology companies on earth.

For example, yesterday Uber confirmed that they are buying Postmates for $2.6B in a move to expand their food delivery footprint.

This makes sense if you look at their last quarterly earnings results, the Uber Eats business grew 52% and managed to somewhat offset a big decline in its ride-hailing revenues.

Uber isn’t stopping there, when Dara Khosrowshahi became CEO of Uber three years ago he agreed to a compensation package largely tied to the performance of the company.

While he did leave $180m in Expedia options on the table he would be awarded 1.75m Uber shares should the company hit $120B valuation.

Knowing that it’s no wonder he’s already managed to move 600 jobs or 15% of their engineering team to India.

Between this offshoring trend and Trump suspending H1-B visas until December, this is great news for Canada.

Tobi Lutke 🌳🌲🛒🕹 @tobi

If getting the the US is your main objective you can still move on south after the h1b rules change. But Canada is awesome. Give it a try.

12:32 PM ∙ Jun 23, 2020

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🍎 What you need to know about iOS 14.

Apple has addressed some serious privacy concerns with its next update:

• You no longer have to give apps your exact location.

• You get to pick which photos an app has access to.

• You’ll know when your microphone or camera is in use.
  

Marco Herrmann @Kleeblatt1977

TikTok to stop reading user clipboards after being exposed by iOS 14 privacy feature

9to5mac.comTikTok to stop reading user clipboards after being exposed by iOS 14 privacy feature - 9to5MacApple has reinforced its commitment to privacy with iOS 14, which includes new features to give users more control over what data each app has access to. One of these features is a new banner alert that lets users know if an app is pasting from the clipboard, and this is already exposing the behavio…

12:48 PM ∙ Jul 7, 2020

This update is also significant because they are opening up their products in five new ways.

1. They’re adding Safari WebExtensions API on macOS

2. You will be able to set default email and browser on iPhone and iPad

3. New enhanced controller support

4. Nearby Interaction framework for U1 chip

5. Find My network accessory program

Other Top Features: Widgets; App Library; App Clips; Pinned conversations in Messages; Translate app; Picture-in-picture video; Bike and electric vehicle routes in Maps.

The developer beta is out already but you have to be a registered developer with Apple which costs $99/yr.

🔮 Predictions:

1. Apple skirts antitrust allegations and avoids being broken up.

2. Kanye makes a serious run for president in 2024.

3. Advertisers will all come crawling back to Facebook.

❤️ Recommendation:

If you’re headed on a road trip this summer check out the podcast series Blowback.

From their website: “Blowback is a 10-part podcast investigation into the war, the decades of policies that led us to destroy Saddam Hussein's government, and the aftermath of the American invasion.

Co-hosts Brendan James and Noah Kulwin examine the ways in which the American government interfered in Iraqi politics long before we ever put boots on the ground, and why America turned on Saddam Hussein, the U.S. government's former favorite strongman in the Middle East.”

Brendan james @deep_beige

Here is a trailer to my and @nkulw's new show, Blowback, about the Iraq War. Comes out next week. thanks

10:32 PM ∙ Mar 10, 2020

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