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I love these sorts of interactive income calculator’s:   Are you in the American middle class? Find out with our income calculator Click for the calculator. Source: Pew Research

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My midweek Nordic morning reads: • Ip: No, the Financial Crisis Didn’t Spawn Populism (Wall Street Journal) • Ten years after the financial crisis, business journalism awaits its reckoning...

Translation of an article by Hyun Song Shin, Economic Adviser and Head of Research of the BIS, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 15 September 2018.  This week marks the 10th anniversary...

Click to see enlarged photos: Source: Hubble Heritage Information Center

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He helped to design some of the very first Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) as managing director at BGI; as co-founder of Cerulli Associates, he conducted some of the earliest research on fee-only...

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train reads: • Zombie Lehman Keeps Chalking Up Victories (Bloomberg View) see also Lehman’s Carcass Has Handed Huge Profits to Distressed Funds (Bloomberg) • Private...

Source: Tax Foundation

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The Financial Crisis Killed Hedge-Fund Performance The industry never came back from the “Great Reset,” the huge sell-off during the first quarter of 2009. Bloomberg, September 17, 2018     I...

On September 15, 2013, exactly 5 years ago, four of us took a leap into the unknown to launch RWM. Perhaps a few words on this crew, and how this all came together, is worth sharing. Take whatever...

My morning train plane reads: • You Can Time The Market, Just Not All The Time (Wall Street Journal) • The Housing Bubble Burst All Over Reality TV (New York Times) • Meet the Shalennials: CEOs...

Source: How Much   This is kind of fun: based on data compiled by 2017 US Census Bureau data, what is the value of each industry’s products on a per state basis. We can quibble over some of these...

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The Sunday New York Times has a big “10 Years After” section on the crash of Lehman Brothers. (Its a collection of all the related columns from this past week). One of those really stood out: “The...

My easy like Sunday morning reads: • The NFL’s Very Profitable Existential Crisis (Bloomberg) • 3 Investments That May Have Hit Their Peak (New York Times) • Investors Should Assume That They Are...

As the weather grows more deadly and destructive, Americans are demanding real solutions to climate change – and they aren’t waiting on Washington to act. Watch the full trailer for “Paris to...

This week, we speak with Dave Nadig, managing director of CBOE’s ETF.com. Nadig helped design some of the first ETFs as managing director at BGI, and as co-founder of Cerulli Associates, he...

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of French Roast coffee, grab a seat by the window, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: • The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke...

Succinct Summations for the week ending September 14th, 2018 Positives: 1. Mid-Cap and Growth stocks made new new all time highs this week. 2. Jobless claims came in at 204k w/o/w, below the...