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Quote of the Day
"Great investors aren’t super human. They are super self-aware. They are disciplined and do the simple things that other people don’t do. They embrace being different because it doesn’t matter what other people think."
(Ian Cassel)
Markets
- A visual history of the largest companies by market cap from 1999 to today. (visualcapitalist.com)
- On the danger of relying on news headlines in your investing. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- There are a lot of ways to visualize the path of investor emotions. (monevator.com)
Finance
- What Goldman Sachs ($GS) has learned from the launch of Marcus. (thebasispoint.com)
- Why aren't more fintechs jumping at the OCC's new special-purpose national bank charter? (americanbanker.com)
- More digital-only banks are launching in the US. (forbes.com)
Funds
- Vanguard is exploring the idea of offering clients access to private equity funds. (wsj.com)
- Pension funds are ramping up the risk they are taking in commercial real estate. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- The housing market is changing right before our very eyes. (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
Global
Policy
- Does the Fed care about the stock market? (themarketcyclist.com)
- Of course Trump could 'fire' the Fed Chair. (thereformedbroker.com)
- Did you know its a federal crime to leave the United States with more than $5 in nickels? (marginalrevolution.com)
- How state funding cuts have (adversely) affected public universities. (nber.org)
- On the overuse of mathematics in economics. (fee.org)
Economy
- The manufacturing data is indicating "a slowdown, but it is not at recessionary levels." (disciplinedinvesting.blogspot.com)
- A succinct summation of the week's major 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)
- Ready or not, e-commerce for real estate is here! (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: getting off the grid. (abnormalreturns.com)
- It's not just unique domain names that are tough to come up these days. (abnormalreturns.com)
