New MacBooks, poorly paid hedgies (sob), and why Africa and Asia should do a population transfer

DISTRACTIONS- Tech geeks who happen to worship at the temple of Apple will want to check out wunderkind Mark Gurman’s latest for Bloomberg, wherein he claims Apple will be refreshing the MacBook Pro, 12-inch MacBook and (just maybe) the MacBook Air at WWDC in a few short weeks’ time. Finance geeks will doubtless not be short of opinions on the notion that 2016 was the worst year for hedge fund pay since 2005, the Financial Times and New York Times report. And if our deep dive into S&P’s methodology isn’t enough for you, econogeeks will want to check out the FT’s piece on how demographics are going to hobble both Asia and Africa in the future. Asia could grow old before becoming rich, but Africa’s population growth may prevent it from ever becoming wealthy.