Book list: A crowdsourced summer book list including Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson. (A VC)
Quote of the Day
"Saving money is simple, but always very far from easy."
(Michael Taylor)
Strategy
- You can teach yourself to be a good investor but a great investors....not so much. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Taxes are often more important than fees. (pragcap.com)
- Is trading a part of your mission or distracting you from it? (traderfeed.blogspot.com)
- In the investment world 'new' rarely means 'improved.' (marketwatch.com)
Companies
- More evidence that Apple ($AAPL) thoroughly dominates the smartphone market. (wsj.com)
- Comcast ($CMCSK) has its own cord cutting option. (nytimes.com)
- Have we reached peak ESPN? (bloombergview.com)
Finance
- Global exchanges are wooing HFTs. (bloomberg.com)
- Very few analysts are willing to publicly call out management (blogs.wsj.com)
ETFs
- DFA is getting into the ETF game. (investmentnews.com)
- What happens to an ETF when the underlying market is closed/locked? (ft.com)
- The differences between the two cybersecurity ETFs. (etf.com)
Global
- A EU-Greece deal explainer. (washingtonpost.com)
- What Greece gave up to get a deal. (fusion.net)
- Whatever happened to the BRICs? (blogs.ft.com)
Economy
- What indicators best forecast the economy? (businessinsider.com)
- Why TV prices are declining while cable prices are increasing. (blogs.wsj.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: changing data regimes. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Getting started investing is hard and the fund industry isn't helping. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you may have missed in our Sunday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Celebrating ten years of Eddy Elfenbein's Crossing Wall Street blog. (abnormalreturns.com)