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Quote of the Day
"(Y)ou can sum up the financial crisis in one sentence: Good things happened to bad people, and bad things happened to good people. Executives who contributed to the crisis retain enormous wealth, while many of those who trusted them have suffered life-altering losses."
(Jason Zweig)
Markets
- The muni yield curve is steeping while the Treasury curve has flattened. (barrons.com)
- Unique patterns and the challenge of small sample sizes. (priceactionlab.com)
Strategy
- Eight vivid examples of how emotions trump reason in investing. (humbledollar.com)
- Is long form research dead? (howardlindzon.com)
- A winning process comes before winning outcomes. (traderfeed.blogspot.com)
Companies
- LendingTree ($TREE) was born in the Dotcom boom but has found a way to stick around. (techcrunch.com)
- An explanation why Amazon's ($AMZN) HQ2 search is taking so long. (axios.com)
- Starbucks ($SBUX) is now selling coffee in....Italy! (wsj.com)
Post GFC
- Why financial disruptions have not cascaded over the past decade. (wsj.com)
- Are we experiencing too much stability now? (thereformedbroker.com)
Funds
Global
Government
- The public sector "owns" a massive amount of infrastructure assets. Are we getting a bang for the buck? (barrons.com)
- The government's workforce as a percentage of employment keeps shrinking. (bloomberg.com)
Economy
- Want to forecast the economy? Think productivity. (nytimes.com)
- A succinct summary of the week's economic events. (ritholtz.com)
- The economic schedule for the coming week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks this week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: from garbage to delicacy. (abnormalreturns.com)
- I talked blogging and personal finance with Tim Ranzetta of Next Gen Personal Finance. (ngpf.org)
Mixed media
- Steven Johnson author of "Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most" on how to encourage diverse thinking. (heleo.com)
- Retaining vs. deleting e-mails: the pros and cons. (avc.com)
- Six things that characterize a "good" job. (fastcompany.com)
- Why you should write thank you notes. (pointsandfigures.com)
