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Quote of the Day
"The only logical reason to play the game of active investing is that you place a high entertainment value on the effort."
(Larry Swedroe)
Chart of the Day
Bill McBride, “In September, the year-over-year change was negative 9.65 million jobs.”
Markets
- Why the next decade for equity returns could be pretty dismal. (marketwatch.com)
- Four thoughts on the current bond allocation conundrum. (morningstar.com)
- There aren't a lot of great investing options if we see a sustained increase in inflation. (wsj.com)
IPOs
- Why companies are eschewing the traditional IPO path. (ft.com)
- Roblox is planning to conduct a direct listing of its shares. (reuters.com)
Finance
- Goldman Sachs ($GS) is buying GM's ($GM) credit card business. (wsj.com)
- Ant Financial is growing in large part due the success of its lending platform. (ft.com)
Media
- Bloomberg Media has launched a personal finance site, Wealth. (axios.com)
- The shortlist for the FT/McKinsey business book of the year is out and includes "If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future" by Jill Lepore. (ft.com)
- Publishers are not happy with libraries lending e-books. (wired.com)
Housing
- The housing market is not seeing its seasonal Fall slowdown in 2020. (housingwire.com)
- Caliber Home Loans Inc. is filing for an IPO. (wsj.com)
Global
- Headline jobs numbers on both sides of the Atlantic may be misleading. (ftalphaville.ft.com)
- Canada's economic recovery is hitting a plateau. (bnnbloomberg.ca)
- Madrid is going back on lockdown. (reuters.com)
Pandemic economy
- Companies are still laying off workers as they come to terms with a longer recovery. (nytimes.com)
- Businesses are dealing with the fact that people don't want to visit public spaces. (vox.com)
- The pandemic is having a disproprionate effect on women's careers. (wsj.com)
- How younger workers will be affected, maybe permanently, by work-from-home arrangements. (theatlantic.com)
- The 2020 recession is the most unequal in history. (washingtonpost.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: the realities of investing. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Longform links: moral agents. (abnormalreturns.com)
- An entertaining anomaly: why you should watch 'Ted Lasso.' (abnormalreturns.com)
- Every Friday I send out five links for advisers to help them think a little differently about the world. Sign up now! (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Trump's positive test for the coronavirus reverberates through the entire administration. (theatlantic.com)
- President Trump is not the first global leader to contract Covid-19. (washingtonpost.com)
- Why you should expect more coronavirus cases in the White House. (businessinsider.com)
- Frequent testing does not prevent infection. (theverge.com)
- Who will tell the American people the truth about the President's health? (vox.com)
