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Quote of the Day
"Simply put, speculation increases when the barriers to speculating are reduced or removed by technology."
(Jamie Catherwood)
Markets
- 2020 is on track to be the most volatile year in stock market history. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Options volume has exploded this year. (wsj.com)
- Mortgage rates are at, or near, record low levels. (housingwire.com)
The Portnoy effect
- Dave Portnoy, “If these people were so smart and as good as they say, they wouldn't be spending all day tweeting at me...They'd be on a yacht somewhere.” (foxbusiness.com)
- Why Dave Portnoy has so galvanized traders and attracted so much media attention. (ft.com)
- If you are going speculate some guidelines to use to you don't infect the rest of your finances. (wsj.com)
- Portnoy is a symptom of, not a cause of, market speculation. (markets.businessinsider.com)
Hotels
- Hotels are focusing on attracting guests who can drive to get there. (bloomberg.com)
- Does it matter how clean your hotel room is if guests aren't wearing masks? (wsj.com)
- Why the hotel breakfast as you know it is done for. (washingtonpost.com)
Companies
- Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are using the pandemic to push their businesses forward. (nytimes.com)
- Goldman Sachs ($GS) currently trades below tangible current book value. (barrons.com)
IPOs
- Why a Quicken Loans IPO would be notable. (housingwire.com)
- Why the IPO window is open, for now. (barrons.com)
Funds
- Ready or not, private equity is coming for your 401(k) plan. (barrons.com)
- A guide to how buffered ETFs work. (etftrends.com)
Covid-19
- You can't have a second wave until the first wave is finished. (vox.com)
- The head of the CDC notes the US is not 'out of the woods' and urges Americans to continue to maintain social distancing. (msn.com)
- Transit systems have been unfairly targeted as vectors for the coronavirus. (theatlantic.com)
- How California is trying to staff up its contact tracing efforts. (npr.org)
- Why this Florida data scientist built her own coronavirus dashboard. (npr.org)
Elections
- There is still time to save the 2020 election. (wsj.com)
- Election security has only gotten more complex as the pandemic rips through the country. (nytimes.com)
Policing
- How cameras have changed our collective view of policing in America. (wsj.com)
- The events of the past weeks have shown that America's police forces are not going to reform absent outside intervention. (theatlantic.com)
- Camden, NJ disbanded its police force. How did things go after that? (marginalrevolution.com)
- Other countries spend more on police relative to prisons than in the US. (marginalrevolution.com)
- What police budgets are currently being spent on. (reasonstobecheerful.world)
- We asking the police to solve too many of society's ills. (theatlantic.com)
- Why are the police in charge of road safety? (marginalrevolution.com)
Economy
- The NBER was quick to call the beginning of the recession, but will likely take their time to call the end of it. (calculatedriskblog.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
- What everyone was reading last week on the site. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Saturday links. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Coronavirus links: just wear a mask. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: an editorial act. (abnormalreturns.com)
