Starting about a decade ago, a fleet of well-known start-ups promised to change the way we work, work out, eat, shop, cook, commute, and sleep. These lifestyle-adjustment companies were so influential that wannabe entrepreneurs saw them as a...
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My easy like Sunday morning policy reads: • Reconsidering the Advice in 3 Popular Personal Finance Books (New York Times) • When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested: Welcome to...
What kind of crazy, fucked-up world do we live in where Bernie Sanders has a heart attack and comes back stronger than ever? One in which Elizabeth Warren is busy snatching defeat from the jaws of...
Our guest this week is Fran Kinniry, principal in Investment Strategy Group, and Global Head of Portfolio Construction at the Vanguard Group, where he is responsible for capital market research,...
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Dark Matter coffee, grab a seat on the aisle, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: • The life and death of an internet monetary meme:...
I really like this discussion of the Talking Heads. All of the imagery is delightfully retro + post-modern. It is an offbeat romp by “graphic-arts prankster” Todd Alcott round of popular...
"Europe is at the limitation of that,...
Succinct Summations for the week ending October 18th, 2019 Positives: 1. Housing market index rose 3 points in October from 68 to 71. 2. Jobless claims rose from 210k to 214k w/o/w, remaining at...
Source: United States Department of Agriculture Wow, thats quite the hit taken by American farmers — post-harvest exports in October, November and December (Blue line pointed to by arrow) have...
My end of week, Chicago-bound, morning plane reads: • Investors Get Path to Buy Into Major League Baseball Teams (Bloomberg) • A Eulogy for the 60/40 Portfolio (A Wealth of Common Sense) •...
The BMW 6 series is no more, and so the new flagship for the Bavarian automaker is the 8 series. I have suggested these are really rebadged 6 series cars, but BMW’s nomenclature is outside of my...
Dr. Robert Cialdini has long been recognized as a leading voice in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation. Daniel Pink is the author of six provocative books — including his latest,...
Bad ideas tend to naturally follow from bad investments. The latest example: Bailing out people who overpaid for taxi medallions, the city license that allows drivers to pick up riders who hail...