My end of week morning train reads: • Meet the People Helping Tim Cook Run Apple (Bloomberg) • How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV (Recode) • Why Monopoly Is The Future…And We Love It!...
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The new Bentley Continental GT W12 First Edition is now available in the UK; it won’t be sold int he USA until the 2019 model rolls out later this year (side by side comparisons between new and...
click for ginormous photo This week on Trillions, Joel and Eric record the podcast equivalent of a double-album with Barry Ritholtz, an ETF-using financial advisor as well as a Bloomberg...
These charts reflect a linear system that is wobbling into the first stages of non-linear destabilization.
The widespread presumption is the U.S. is wealthy beyond words, and will remain so as far as the eye can see: wealthy enough to fund...
What Does the Longest Bull Market Mean?: Kaissar vs. Ritholtz The run for stocks is now in the record books. So what? Bloomberg, August 23, 2018 There’s lots of disagreement about whether the...
Our POTUS-free morning train reads: • Cheap Stocks, 2% Bonds and Modest Earnings Built Record Bull Run (Bloomberg) • Sorry, Pal, I Don’t Want to Talk: The Other Reason People Wear AirPods (Wall...
The Brits are some brilliant negotiators: Source: Economist
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A group of students at Manchester University in northwest England registered their acute dissatisfaction with the failure of the economics profession as a whole to forecast the financial crisis...
The uncomfortable reality is all Bull Markets, no matter how lengthy or robust, all expire.
As you have undoubtedly heard, the current Bull Market in U.S. stocks (S&P 500) is the longest in recent history--though some historians claim that Rome's...
Index Funds Will Be Fine Confronting Cruel Markets The claim that passive investors will suffer more in an equity slump doesn’t hold up. Bloomberg, August 15, 2018 Every now and again, I...
Our verdict-free morning train reads: • ‘We Are All Accumulating Mountains of Things’ (The Atlantic) see also The Problem With Buying Cheap Stuff Online (The Atlantic) • No, Stocks Aren’t Cheap,...
This is absolutely fascinating: Source: Information Is Beautiful
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Donald Trump is waging a trade war that hurts a lot of American workers. Maybe he would understand that if our heavy-handed documentaries about the global trading system were more informative ...
Interest rates are “the lowest in history, from the Code of Hammurabi to Babylon Civilization, Greek and Roman Civilization, the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and early modern history, right up until...
Can Bitcoin be hacked? Any software can be hacked, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Hacks make cryptocurrency more secure. After all,...
My Two-for-Tuesday morning train reads: • This is what the average American looks like in 2018 (Washington Post) • What’s killing rural Canada? Crime, opioid abuse, and fleeing populations are...
Steve Einhorn is Vice Chairman at Omega Advisors, and Lee Cooperman’s right hand man. I like his checklist (via Disciplined Systematic Global Macro Views): The Einhorn Bear market checklist: 1....
Daily Profit Reporting Would End Short-Termism . Bloomberg, August 20, 2018 Want to Make Earnings Great Again? Report them daily. My column at Bloomberg today looks at that issue. Ever since...
Active Money Management Isn’t Dead Yet There are five niches that should survive Bloomberg, August 13, 2018 There’s a line of argument in the financial press that suggests that active money...
My back to work morning train reads: • Wall Street Erases the Line Between Its Jocks and Nerds (Wall Street Journal) • One in 10 Airbnb hosts in the U.S. is a teacher: Low Pay Has Teachers...
Source: TechCrunch This is fascinating: Amazon Music, which has quietly grown to become the third largest music streaming service, allows users to view the lyrics as songs play, and ties that...
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