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, July 5th, 2014. The description reads as it does in the relevant linkfest:

  1. Charles A. Czeisler, “Most of us have forgotten what it really feels like to be awake.”  (NYTimes)
  2. Market bears are running out of excuses.  (The Reformed Broker)
  3. Why you should ship your bags the next time you fly.  (Brett Arends)
  4. Morgan Housel, “You might think successful investors are brilliant minds who can calculate complicated things with precision. They rarely are. The best are more like baseball players, able to solve complicated problems by using simple rules of thumb.”  (Motley Fool)
  5. Three lessons learned from Vanguard fund investors.  (A Wealth of Common Sense)
  6. Why the coming week could be a big one for the stock market.  (A Dash of Insight)
  7. Ever wonder what the true global market portfolio looks like?  (Meb Faber)
  8. Andrew Haldane, “This is a very different world – lots of nutty things are still happening – the alternative would be nuttier still.”  (FT)
  9. The risk of short-term bond funds.  (Rick Ferri)
  10. Where 10-year annualized stock returns stand.  (HORAN Capital)

What else you may have missed on the site this week:

  1. What books Abnormal Returns readers purchased in June 2014.  (Abnormal Returns)

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