Review: Derek Thompson’s Hit Makers: Why Things Become Popular is a “great book.” (Reading the Markets)
Quote of the Day
"I see bold predictions get passed around all day and now that a year has passed on these wrong market calls, they are getting passed around again."
(Howard Lindzon)
Markets
- Three signs of excess in today's market. (pensionpartners.com)
- Low-vol stocks have started to outperform. (disciplinedinvesting.blogspot.com)
- Where'd all the new highs go? (thereformedbroker.com)
Strategy
- How luck changed one investor's life. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
- What a 'no-brainer' portfolio looks like. (barrons.com)
- Nuance works against sensible investment strategy. (marketfox.org)
Offers
- Select Kindles are on sale including the 7" Fire which is available for $39.99. (amazon.com)
- Get Shane Snow's "Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success." (amazon.com)
Companies
- The many knocks against the Snap ($SNAP) IPO. (wsj.com)
- How Amazon ($AMZN) has infiltrated the physical world. (fastcompany.com)
- The fatal flaw of Apple's ($AAPL) product design. (kottke.org)
Finance
- Sell-side research is a dying business as investors question its worth. (ft.com)
- Goldman Sachs ($GS) is automating away trading jobs. (technologyreview.com)
- Markets in everything: Mt Gox bitcoin payouts. (ft.com)
Billions
- Billions Season 2 is still pretty darn good. (wegotthiscovered.com)
- "Billions" is back for Season 2! Sign-up for a free-trial for Showtime at Amazon Channels. (amazon.com)
Economy
- It's too early for the Fed to be thinking about a March raise. (bloomberg.com)
- To its detriment, the Fed is overrun with academic economists. (wsj.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- ETF links: locked-in valuations. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Social influence and the rise of index investing. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
