Book notes: Why we should take profanity seriously. A look at Benjamin K. Bergen’s What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains and Ourselves. (Time)
Quote of the Day
"Investors need plenty of GRIT. This is the ability to get back up after being knocked down. Few desirable traits for investors are more valuable than this."
(Anthony Isola)
Markets
- Domestic assets were the best performers last week. (capitalspectator.com)
- This is historically one of the worst week's for the stock market. (quantifiableedges.com)
Strategy
- Lessons from the greatest bubble of all-time. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Not all that much has changed on Wall Street in the past 10 years. (howardlindzon.com)
Offers
- You can now get Robert Cialdini's highly anticipated second book "Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade." (amazon.com)
- Try Audible.com and get two free audiobooks including "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen. (amazon.com)
- Amazon is pushing hard into voice powered-computing with the new Dot. (amazon.com)
Finance
- Private investors are pushing into the commercial real estate debt space. (bloomberg.com)
- Peer-to-peer lending companies don't fully understand what they are doing. (bloomberg.com)
Global
Economy
- The three questions facing the Fed. (nytimes.com)
- Homebuilder confidence rose in September. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Americans are flipping homes again. (businessinsider.com)
- Hotel room supply and demand are coming into balance. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: exploiting the anomaly. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
