Thanks for checking in with us this weekend.  Here are the items our readers clicked most frequently on Abnormal Returns for the week ended Saturday, June 4th, 2011. The description is as it reads in the relevant linkfest.

  1. Comparing the recent spate of bubbles, including the bubble in calling things bubbles.  (NYMag)
  2. What happens after a stock drops 25% in a week. (My Simple Quant)
  3. Stocks with the highest short interest ratios.  (Bespoke)
  4. How “magic” is the magic formula for investing?  (Empirical Finance Blog)
  5. Market breadth shows a narrowing rally.  (Data Diary)
  6. What the “ultimate stock pickers” are buying and selling.  (Morningstar)
  7. Josh Brown, “We have a new type of hippie in 2011, only our modern hippies are much more lovable and productive for society at large than whatever was rolling around in its own filth 50 years ago.”  (The Reformed Broker)
  8. Accumulating signs of a turn in market tone.  (The Reformed Broker)
  9. What would Einstein make of bonds?  (Tim Harford)
  10. The value of a 70-year software engineer.  (Freakonomics)

We also had a handful of items on Abnormal Returns this week:

  1. ARTV on investor education in an increasingly myopic world.  (Abnormal Returns)
  2. The ultimate (and newly revised) Groupon IPO linkfest.  (Abnormal Returns)
  3. Is the US economy simply slowing or headed for a double-dip recession?  (AR Screencast)
  4. Farmland prices are on the rise around the globe but publicly traded vehicles are a poor substitute.  (AR Screencast)
  5. Treasury yields continue to decline despite talk of financial repression and negative real yields.  (AR Screencast)
  6. A renewed focus on the Andean nations as they merge their stock exchanges.  (AR Screencast)

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