Archive for December, 2011

• Saturday links: relentless stupidity
  abnormalreturns, December 31st, 2011 at 7:11 am, Comments: 0

  The weekend is a great time to catch up on some of the reading you skipped during the week.  We hope you enjoy this set [...]

• Friday links: excess volatility
  abnormalreturns, December 30th, 2011 at 12:16 pm, Comments: 0

  This is for many the last linkfest of 2011.  We hope you continued to find something of value on Abnormal Returns in 2011.  Here’s hoping [...]

• Friday 7atSeven: gold for drugs
  abnormalreturns, December 30th, 2011 at 6:39 am, Comments: 0

  Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern.  We will see you later with the daily linkfest.  Good luck out there today. Investors are [...]

• Thursday links: eternal endowments
  abnormalreturns, December 29th, 2011 at 12:46 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Why do universities have endowments?  Tyler Cowen, “Because they can.”  (Marginal Revolution) Chart of the day The correlation between the $VIX [...]

• Top clicks in 2011 on Abnormal Returns
  abnormalreturns, December 29th, 2011 at 12:26 pm, Comments: 0

  Regular readers of Abnormal Returns recognize that we do a weekly post highlighting the top clicks for the week.  As a change of pace we [...]

• Thursday 7atSeven: housing hopes
  abnormalreturns, December 29th, 2011 at 7:03 am, Comments: 0

  Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern.  We will see you later with the daily linkfest.  Good luck out there today. The smart [...]

• Wednesday links: short horizons
  abnormalreturns, December 28th, 2011 at 12:48 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day John Kay, “The average length of time for which buyers hold shares today is very short. But the average length of [...]

• Triple net returns and the importance of taxes
  abnormalreturns, December 28th, 2011 at 10:32 am, Comments: 0

  A few weeks ago we talked about how even a relatively benign, by headline standards, inflation environment inflation is a “silent killer” of investment portfolios.  [...]

• Wednesday 7atSeven: deposit demand
  abnormalreturns, December 28th, 2011 at 6:49 am, Comments: 0

  Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern.  We will see you later with the daily linkfest.  Good luck out there today. Long-term Treasuries [...]

• Tuesday links: small simple things
  abnormalreturns, December 27th, 2011 at 12:24 pm, Comments: 0

  Quote of the day Carl Richards, “In 2012, commit to doing small, simple things consistently and over time.”  (Bucks Blog) Chart of the day Consumer [...]