Quote of the Day
"Nobody wins when the housing market is too hot – not even sellers because they will need to find somewhere else to live."
(Logan Mohtashami)
Markets
- The surge in small cap stocks, visualized. (quantifiableedges.com)
- It's taken awhile, but financial stocks are finally near their all-time highs. (allstarcharts.com)
- Green energy stocks are on fire of late. (ft.com)
Commodities
- Despite all the hype, silver prices are roughly where they were when the year started. (ft.com)
- A whole host of commodities are surging in 2021. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
Strategy
- Three reasons why people love to trade options. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Your gut instincts may be right, but you have to put in guardrails when investing. (wsj.com)
- Ticker trading mishaps are more common than you think. (mrzepczynski.blogspot.com)
Bitcoin ETFs
- Why it's not surprising that a Bitcoin ETF launched in Canada prior to the U.S. (bloomberg.com)
- Why a Bitcoin ETF really matters. (etftrends.com)
Crypto
- How much is Bitcoin worth? Nobody really knows. (wsj.com)
- In a recent transaction, Coinbase is valued in excess of $100 billion. (axios.com)
- Can you really play Bitcoin using related stocks? (wsj.com)
- Why you need to know about Bitcoin mining in China. (barrons.com)
Policy
- Why economic policy makers no longer fear a 1970's style inflation scenario. (ft.com)
- Why the U.S. needs a high-skill immigration plan. (fortune.com)
- The pandemic highlighted weaknesses in America's public health system. (politico.com)
- Why a UBI is likely to come for kids first. (wsj.com)
- Per this study, people thing that marginal tax rates are just about right. (crossingwallstreet.com)
Work
- The Midwest is seeing robust jobs growth. (wsj.com)
- There is a surge in blue collar employment. (wsj.com)
- The pandemic has caused a lot of jobs-skills mismatches. (washingtonpost.com)
- How recreational marijuana laws reduce the incidence of worker compensation claims. (fortune.com)
Economy
- It's been a long time since the U.S. economy ran hot. (washingtonpost.com)
- How boredom shaped the pandemic economy. (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)
- Coronavirus links: the eye of a hurricane. (abnormalreturns.com)
- How are we to value equities in a post-Covid, economic boom? (abnormalreturns.com)
- The concept of compounding has a branding problem. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Why 'good defaults' matter for consumers and why financial educators should have modest expectations. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Tired of hour-long podcasts? then check out your favorite bloggers read some their recent posts on The Goldmine. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
Mixed media
- Why Fernando Tatis will owe Big League Advance some $27 million over the the life of his contract. (wsj.com)
- The Hipgnosis Song Fund "has spent a whopping $1.75 billion on 129 catalogs, accumulating 60,836 songs, as of the end of January." (hollywoodreporter.com)
- Big money is set to flood the crypto art market. (businessofbusiness.com)
