Tuesday links: rare experiences

MarketsThe stock market rarely experiences an average return. (fortunesandfrictions.com)When you invest matters more than what you invest in. (ofdollarsanddata.com)AIHow Apple ($AAPL) differs from its Mag 7 brethren. (sherwood.news)Why Meta ($META) purchased Manus, think enterprise. (spyglass.org)AI demand drove the returns of the world's best performing stock in 2025, Japan's Kioxia. (msn.com)Softbank's big investment in OpenAI is done. (cnbc.com)BusinessWhy the Downtown Dallas office market is struggling. (wsj.com)Farmers are struggling as 2025 comes to a close. (npr.org)Boston's biotech scene has stalled out. (wsj.com)EconomyNational home prices, per Case-Shiller, were up 1.4% through October. (calculatedriskblog.com)Realized tariffs are still ratcheting higher. (ft.com)Sonu Varghese, "The overall picture points to inflationary growth and that is not necessarily a bad thing for stocks." (carsongroup.com)Economic inequality is nothing new, but the scale today is different. (awealthof