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Quote of the Day
"The thesis underlying everything, whether you’re an actively managed fund or a passive fund, is that the U.S. will be OK. If you don’t believe that, you shouldn’t be in the stock market."
(Peter Lynch)
Markets
- Greece is the best-performing stock market of 2019. (finance.yahoo.com)
- The 60/40 portfolio had its best year since 1998. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
- REITs in a diversified portfolio are, at best, a judgment call. (humbledollar.com)
Companies
- A look at Boeing's ($BA) no-good, very bad year. (wsj.com)
- Five things Amazon ($AMZN) got right (and wrong) in 2019. (fastcompany.com)
- 2019 was not a bounceback year for mall stocks. (wsj.com)
Finance
- The SEC is probing the first-day trading of high-profile companies. (wsj.com)
- Auto dealers are fibbing the numbers to make loan applications look better. (wsj.com)
Funds
- On the long, sloth-like, history of the Voya Corporate Leaders Trust. (wsj.com)
- If hedge funds are taking less risk, what are investors to do? (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
Books
- Ben Carlson's favorite books of 2019 including "One Giant Leap" by Charles Fishman. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Book recommendations from Bloomberg writers and including “Billion Dollar Whale” by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope. (finance.yahoo.com)
- 16 books Bill Gates recommended in 2019 including "Nine Pints" by Rose George. (businessinsider.com)
- The top 10 selling books of the past decade. (mentalfloss.com)
Policy
- America is increasingly the land of the side hustle. (nytimes.com)
- Want to boost tech across America? Fund research universities outside of traditional tech hubs. (bloomberg.com)
- The US is grappling with a huge green card backlog and politicians can't decide what to do about it. (washingtonpost.com)
- Kansas City wants to find out what happens if you make public transportation free. (citylab.com)
- The number of people sentenced to death in the US dropped this year to the second-lowest level since 1973. (wsj.com)
- Does GDP actually measure what's important? (nytimes.com)
Economy
- The Fed's balance sheet has stopped shrinking. (econbrowser.com)
- A succinct summary of the week's economic events. (ritholtz.com)
- The economic schedule for the holiday-shortened week. (calculatedriskblog.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Top clicks last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: overdosing on digital technology (abnormalreturns.com)
