Dina Isola, a financial advisor at RWM, is an advocate for the protection of retail investors, no matter how much money they have or what level of sophistication they are considered. Here’s what...
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Hedge Funds Keep Failing to Deliver on What They’re Selling They neither outperform in bull markets nor offer insurance against bear retreats. Bloomberg, April 25, 2019 The...
Happy Birthday Ella! My morning train reads: • How Twitter Users Compare to the General Public (Pew Research) • Tesla’s 2020 self-driving car promise sounds too good to be true because it is...
When the 4% who generate the jobs and tax revenues have had enough and leave, the effects quickly impact the 64%.
At the end of any trend, everyone's a true believer: this trend is so enduring, so broad-based, so based on unchanging fundamentals...
Co-living companies aim to disrupt traditional apartment life -- just as coworking spaces did for staid office life -- by borrowing the concept of resource-sharing. Tenants trade personal space for a fully furnished bedroom, shared common areas...
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My midweek morning train reads: • All the Stuff Bears Are Saying to Spoil the S&P 500 Record Party (Bloomberg) • Stocks are at an all-time high. Here’s what stopped the last 12 bull runs (CNN) •...
Given that the economy is now totally and completely dependent on inflating asset bubbles, it makes no sense to invest for the long-term.
Beneath the endlessly hyped expansion in gross domestic product (GDP) of the past two decades, the economy...
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Warren Has a Good Beginning for Ending Corporate-Tax Avoidance Something’s not right when the most profitable companies can avoid paying their share. Bloomberg, April 15, 2019 Each year,...
My Two-for-Tuesday morning train reads: • Podcast wars: $100 million startup Luminary launches tomorrow without Reply All or The Daily (The Verge) see also Like most media, podcasting is pivoting...
This continues to act as a drag on global economy: A wave of disruptions is rocking the world trading system. Britain’s divorce from the European Union has turned messy, while the U.S. trade war...
The transcript from this week’s MIB: William J. Bernstein, Efficient Frontier is below. You can stream/download the full conversation, including the podcast extras...
This has changed a bit since the last time we ran this almost a year ago (hat tip Brian Rosen): Source: TitleMax
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Selfie Deaths Are Like Market Crashes Investors should worry much more about excessive fees, which are the financial equivalent of high cholesterol – something that might kill you. Bloomberg,...
My Earth Day morning train reads: • What Happens to the Economy as Our Cognitive Capabilities Expand? (Worth) • This is why everyone thinks they are middle class (even if they aren’t). It might...
The forced flight from unaffordable and dysfunctional urban regions is as yet a trickle, but watch what happens when a recession causes widespread layoffs in high-wage sectors.
For hundreds of years, rural poverty has driven people to urban...
Same-Sex Couples Face A Lending Discrimination Rate 75% More Often Than Straight Couples
My easy like Sunday morning reads: • The issues 2020 Democrats are running on, according to their social media (Washington Post) see also Who’s Taking the Early Lead Among 2020 Democrats (Wall...
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