What I read this week...

Teachers, domestic investments, and the Bigfoot of Baltimore

What I read this week…

• The regulators of Facebook, Google and Amazon also invest in the companies’ stocks (WSJ)

• With teachers in short supply, states ease job requirements (AP)

• Volkswagen to take 60% stake in $2B tech JV with China's Horizon Robotics (Reuters)

• Micron pledges up to $100B for semiconductor factory in New York (NYT)

• Biden hails IBM’s $20B New York manufacturing deal (Reuters)

• U.S. looks to ease Venezuela sanctions, enabling Chevron to pump oil (WSJ)

• Empty ESG pledges ensure bonds benefit companies, not the planet (Bloomberg)

• The Bigfoot of Baltimore (WSJ)

On Twitter…

Cara Lombardo @CaraRLombardo

.@WSJ scoop: Carl Icahn made a $250 million profit today after buying up Twitter shares in the past several months $TWTR

wsj.comWSJ News Exclusive | Carl Icahn, Others Clean Up on Musk’s Twitter About-FaceElon Musk’s decision to end his war with Twitter isn’t just a big win for the social-media company, but also for some big-name investors like Carl Icahn, who had amassed a stake of well over $500 million in the past few months.

Lulu Yilun Chen @luluyilun

Citadel’s four hedge funds all generated double-digit returns this year, outshining peers in turbulent markets bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @markets

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

Kate Clark @KateClarkTweets

Yale's endowment reported an investment gain of .08% for fy 2022 yesterday, its lowest return since 2009. Last year, the school posted a 40.2% return, its highest in decades.

yaledailynews.comYale endowment grows 0.8 percent, its lowest since the Great RecessionThe University’s annual return of $266 million was driven down by the bleak financial environment but ran ahead of figures so far released by peer institutions.