Quote of the Day
"Your investing risk score is part of your soul and does not say anything about your character or attractiveness."
(Howard Lindzon)
Markets
- Why it's hard for older generations to understand changes in the investment landscape. (thereformedbroker.com)
- Bull markets engender all manner of frauds and scams. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Lumber
- Higher lumber prices have added $35,872 to the price of a new home over the past year. (housingwire.com)
- The lumber futures market is too illiquid for professional trend followers. (rcmalternatives.com)
- What role climate change is playing in higher lumber prices. (theatlantic.com)
Apple
- Hitting on all cylinders: Apple's ($AAPL) record quarter in charts. (sixcolors.com)
- Apple ($AAPL) does seem to be reducing production of AirPods. (asia.nikkei.com)
- The M1 chip has been a success. What will the M2 bring? (sixcolors.com)
Companies
- ExxonMobil ($XOM) has attracted an activist investor. (axios.com)
- The hype has died down, but r/WSB is still moving stocks. (businessofbusiness.com)
Finance
- JP Morgan Chase ($JPM) is anxious to get people back in the office. (ft.com)
- Rising stock prices, mean its getting harder to lure away senior bankers. (efinancialcareers.com)
IPOs
Trading
- Fidelity is now open to managing short lending programs for outside managers. (wsj.com)
- Outages are now a common problem for online brokers. (investmentnews.com)
Work
- U.S. manufacturers are struggling to hire workers. (nytimes.com)
- It's not just the paycheck: why people want to get back to work. (latimes.com)
- Amazon ($AMZN) is raising pay for warehouse workers. (nytimes.com)
- Restaurant workers are not returning the same jobs they left, pre-pandemic. (eater.com)
Economy
- The U.S. economy grew at a 6.4% rate in Q1. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Shortages are a function of a long period of underinvestment. (barrons.com)
- Why you shouldn't waste time trying to outguess the Fed. (compoundadvisors.com)
- Home price increases won't ease until inventories rise. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- What history tells us about post-pandemic booms. (economist.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Longform links: family downward mobility. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Personal finance links: amplifying small steady gains. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: the average stock. (abnormalreturns.com)
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