Book Q&A: On the growing risk of overparenting: a discussion with Julie Lythcott-Haims author of How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success. (TechCrunch)
Quote of the Day
"Finding a balance between overthinking and not thinking at all is the key to developing a successful investment methodology."
(Jesse Felder)
Markets
- Wall Street strategists are still skeptical about stocks. (ritholtz.com)
- Chinese officials are sick and tired of the market going down. (wsj.com)
- Why bonds and bond alternatives are a risky bet. (dashofinsight.com)
- Chinese authorities think short sellers were in part to blame for the market plunge. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
Strategy
- 15 problems with real-life portfolios. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Investors need to be optimistic...up and to a point. (fool.com)
- Three necessary but not sufficient traits of successful traders. (traderfeed.blogspot.com)
- The sad story of a stock market plunger. (stockcharts.com)
Companies
- Does Amazon ($AMZN) have a Jet.com problem? (recode.net)
- MLPs are beginning to look attractive again. (sl-advisors.com)
- David Einhorn and Dan Loeb own a majority of Green Brick Partners ($GRBK). (marketfolly.com)
Finance
- How companies really get valued. (medium.com)
- Don't write off the IPO just yet. (howardlindzon.com)
- The implications of closing the CME ($CME) trading pits. (managed-futures-blog.attaincapital.com)
Global
- Steve Randy Waldman, "Greece should see its debts forgiven, pretty much wholesale." (interfluidity.com)
- Greece is solvent but illiquid. (voxeu.org)
- China is big. Greece is small. (marginalrevolution.com)
- How Iceland turned things around. (nytimes.com)
Economy
- Why property taxes are a mainstay. (nytimes.com)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks this week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Saturday links: wannabe brewers. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The debate over the risk free is kind of a big deal. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Public markets are treating former unicorns with skepticism which is why many companies are reluctant to go public. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Podcast links: only in my dreams (abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Apple ($AAPL) Music makes it easy to find a song, hard to network. (nytimes.com)
- Why Beats 1 is the new iPod. (aboveavalon.com)
- Streaming services need to simplify. (recode.net)
- Why don't all the big carriers allow for wi-fi calling? (avc.com)
- The ten best new apps of 2015...so far. (pastemagazine.com)
