Review: Steven Johnson’s The Invention of Air: The Story of Science, Faith and Revolution is an “amazing book.” (The Reformed Broker)
Quote of the Day
"There is a fine line between the profit motive and greed."
(Fred Wilson)
Markets
- Italy's stock market leads the G-7 YTD. (qz.com)
- Many people are still scared of the stock market. (joefahmy.com)
Strategy
- Does the Fed (or Washington) matter to markets? Insights from Camp Kotok. (etf.com)
- What's Warren Buffett going to do with his $100 billion cash hoard? (bloomberg.com)
Dearborn Denim
- Back in January we wrote about being fans of Dearborn Denim jeans. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Now you can get $10 of your next order of Dearborn Denim jeans, khakis, belts etc. (rwrd.io)
Companies
- You probably weren't aware that Amazon ($AMZN) owns a bunch of (other) brands. (qz.com)
- Not every engineer at Google ($GOOGL) or Facebook ($FB) is working their brains out. (businessinsider.com)
- Netflix ($NFLX) has made its first acquisition. (wsj.com)
Financial crisis
- You can date the outset of the financial crisis to the failure of this obscure lender. (thebasispoint.com)
- In 2007 the global financial markets were all moving in synch. (ft.com)
- The big banks have paid around $150 billion in fines from the financial crisis. (ft.com)
Hedge funds
- Why companies fear Paul Singer. (bloomberg.com)
- Does it matter what you name your hedge fund? (blogs.cfainstitute.org)
Offers
- "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise" by Anders Ericsson is just $2.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
- "The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire" by Neil Irwin is just $6.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
Funds
- More mutual funds launches this year than ETFs. (valuewalk.com)
- Stop saying active management works with bonds. (etf.com)
Economy
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- ETF links: devouring capitalism. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you misssed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- The first rule of investing is.... (abnormalreturns.com)
