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Via the people who helped us walk on the moon, comes this informative infographic:   Source: NASA

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My easy like Sunday morning reads: • When Earning $1 Million A Year Isn’t Enough To Retire Early (Financial Samurai) see also Low Fidelity (HumbleDollar) • The Half-Life of Investment Strategies...

Night School, starring Kevin Hart, Tiffany Haddish, Keith David (!), Rob Riggle, Yvonne Orji, Mary Lynn Rasjskub and Taran Killam, opens Sept. 28, 2018.   NIGHT SCHOOL Official Trailer (2018)...

This week, on our Masters in Business radio podcast, we speak with Richard Sylla, professor emeritus of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Sylla is the author of several...

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat on the couch, and get ready for our longer form weekend reads: • The 41% Man: Perceptive Advisors’ Joseph Edelman...

• The Inside Story of the John Coltrane Quartet’s Lost Album (JazzTimes)

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Succinct Summations for the week ending August 17th, 2018 Positives: 1. Jobless claims fell to 212k w/o/w, beating the expected 215k. 2. Nonfarm productivity shows a 2.9% annualized rate q/o/q,...

Old Age Isn’t What Ends a Bull Stock Market The length of the run really doesn’t matter very much. Bloomberg, August 17, 2018     Yes, we know, the bull market is long in the tooth, its aging, its...

click for ginormous graphic Source: First Trust   I really like this graphic, via First Trust, showing the history of bull and bear markets in the US. The ongoing debate about the length of bull...

My end of week morning train reads: • Why Can’t Europe Do Tech? This is the best moment in decades for the continent to battle its way back to relevance. Its startups need to act like it....

When they say “they don’t make them like this, anymore” these are the sorts of cars they are talking about: 1953 Buick Skylark Convertible. Its American Iron at its finest, and this is an...

Click for audio   From All About Your Benjamins: Unless you’re a CPA, you probably don’t like to think about taxes, but after listening to this episode with Bill Sweet, you just might. Bill is the...

This is amazing: One of the world’s first drone delivery services is all the way in rural Rwanda, where 27 year-old Abdoul Salam Nizeyimana earns a living by launching and retrieving self-flying...

My morning train reads: • Journalists are not the enemy (The Boston Globe) • An inversion of nature: how air conditioning created the modern city (The Guardian) • Need a Quick Inspection of a...

Source: New York Times     Surprise! Politics confuses some peoples’ ability to make objective assessments of economic data: “Americans’ perceptions of the economy’s prospects increasingly depend...

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       This past week, I came...

A Challenge to the Biggest Idea in Behavioral Finance Two professors make an interesting argument, but the theory of loss aversion isn’t dead yet. Bloomberg, August 9, 2018       A recent paper...

My midweek morning train reads: • The evidence is in: Austerian economists got everything wrong. (TheWeek) • The hunt for the next Nostradamus (FT Alphaville) • We All Have It Now (Of Dollars...