Review: Tim Harford’s Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy is “works well” and is “constantly surprising.” (Matt Ridley Blog)
Quote of the Day
"In other words, how would golf be if the course played back: if the efforts of golfers to put their shot in the right place caused the right place to become the wrong place? That's certainly the case with investing."
(Howard Marks)
Strategy
- What does the 'SI jinx' have to do with markets? (macromon.wordpress.com)
- Can you use risk parity indices as a benchmark? (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
Companies
- Amazon's ($AMZN) new HQ is the "Olympics of corporate relocations." (bloomberg.com)
- JP Morgan Chase ($JPM) is working hard to help revive Detroit. (fortune.com)
- Checking in on major tech trends prior to the Apple ($AAPL) launch event. (aboveavalon.com)
Autumn
- It's Fall. Go out and grab yourself a pair of American-made Dearborn Denim jeans and get $10 off. (dearborndenim.us)
- You know what goes well with a new pair of jeans? A new BTFD t-shirt from StockTwits.com (shop.stocktwits.com)
Finance
- This is a big month for catastrophe bonds. (bloomberg.com)
- What is a 'credit risk transfer agreement' and why should you care? (beta.morningstar.com)
- StockTwits is growing like crazy among Millennials. (markets.businessinsider.com)
- Filecoin raised $257 million in its ICO. (coindesk.com)
Investment Banking
- What Goldman Sachs ($GS) interns think about the world. (buzzfeed.com)
- Private equity firms are going after IB analysts earlier and earlier. (bloomberg.com)
- Jared Dillian's advice to aspiring investment banking types. (wallstreetoasis.com)
Funds
Offers
- Ray Dalio's new book "Principles: Life and Work" is about more than just investing. (amazon.com)
- The Amazon Fire TV stick is just $34.99 or $ off. (amazon.com)
- Don't send your kid off to college without Amazon Prime Student. (amazon.com)
Global
Economy
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: climate change cacophony. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Startup links: furtherance of the sound. (abnormalreturns.com)
- How Claude Shannon, father of information theory, invested his money successfully. (abnormalreturns.com)