Excerpt: On putting some distance between you and your negative self-views, from Melissa Dahl’s Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness. (Wired)
Quote of the Day
"The most important piece of information when buying a stock (or any asset) is — the price you pay."
(Nick Maggiulli)
Chart of the Day
When you look at Berkshire Hathaway’s ($BRK.A) performance on a log basis over the past decade it no longer that impressive.
Markets
- US companies are once again accelerating dividend increases. (wsj.com)
- What else the S&P 500 crowd will spend money in this year. (thereformedbroker.com)
- Treasury sentiment has taken a turn towards the bearish. (seeitmarket.com)
Strategy
- Stock investing 101: great companies don't necessarily make great stocks. (thereformedbroker.com)
- There is a big difference between stock picking and market timing. (elmfunds.com)
- Why pundits love to throw around a '40% probability' of some event happening. (wsj.com)
- A round-up of recent articles on asset allocation. (allocatesmartly.com)
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Crypto
Companies
- How many active Apple ($AAPL) devices are in use? (asymco.com)
- GE ($GE) has rebuilt its board of directors. (wsj.com)
- What characteristics enterprises that have lasted centuries have in common? (chenmarkcapital.com)
Finance
Funds
Economy
- House prices rose at a 6.3% rate in the December Case-Shiller report. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Is the impact of changes in the size of the Fed's balance sheet overrated? (econbrowser.com)
- The US construction industry has not fully recovered yet. (bloomberg.com)
- It's hard to see how economic growth increases dramatically without enhanced immigration. (theatlantic.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: sequential factors. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- ETF links: active factors. (abnormalreturns.com)
