Quote of the Day
"Social media is a place where the business model depends on some percentage of the crowd acting in unpleasant ways. It draws a crowd. And crowds generate profit."
(Seth Godin)
Markets
- Michael Batnick, "Cheap stocks aren’t bringing down the average, it’s the expensive stocks that are doing it." (theirrelevantinvestor.com)
- It's hard to overstate how bad the bond market has been YTD. (washingtonpost.com)
- If you aren't confused right now, you are thinking enough. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Strategy
- There is a big difference in averaging down in an individual stock vs. an index. (ofdollarsanddata.com)
- How to use lower risk equities to up overall equity exposure. (morningstar.com)
- You can't learn to take risk from a book. (bloomberg.com)
Crypto
- Fidelity Investments is planning to offer crypto-enabled 401(k) plans. (protocol.com)
- The crypto industry is hiring lawyers, hand over fist. (wsj.com)
- There's still a lot of ifs to get through before Elon controls Twitter. (bloomberg.com)
- Om Malik, "Buying Twitter ensures that he [Musk] is never locked out from the platform that gives him the bully pulpit and power." (om.co)
- Is it smart to leverage up a company that doesn't make much money? (crossingwallstreet.com)
- Ten easy fixes for Twitter ($TWTR) including 'Edit button.' (thereformedbroker.com)
- Twitter ($TWTR) should get rid of its algorithmic feed. (fullstackeconomics.com)
- Twitter ($TWTR) doesn't have an engineering problem, it has a people problem. (theatlantic.com)
Fund management
- The SEC's enforcement division has launched a sweep of ETF revenue-sharing practices. (ft.com)
- How Ned Johnson helped turn Fidelity into a powerhouse. (ft.com)
Economy
- The Case-Shiller housing index showed a 19.8% annual gain in February. (calculatedrisk.substack.com)
- For better or worse, real yields are now positive. (wsj.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: changing valuations. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Adviser links: previous generations. (abnormalreturns.com)
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