Quote of the Day
"Bubbles and frauds not only prey on similar human behaviours, at times they can become one and the same thing."
(Joe Wiggins)
Strategy
- Jack Forehand, "There is no magic bullet to help decide when to change an investment process." (blog.validea.com)
- You can't control the markets, only your own behavior. (allstarcharts.com)
Activists
- Google ($GOOGL) is not too big to attract an activist investor. (cnbc.com)
- Saba Capital wants Franklin Templeton ($BEN) to attend to some high discount CEFs. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Impactive Capital wants a board seat at Envestnet ($ENV). (riabiz.com)
Crypto
- Joshua Brown, "Sam Bankman-Fried appears to have been among the most talented tricksters of all time. Look at the list of his biggest victims to gauge the level of his prowess." (thereformedbroker.com)
- web3 is going to take unwanted attention from the crypto blowup. (avc.com)
Apple
- How to create a supercomputer using Apple ($AAPL) M1 Macbooks. (newscientist.com)
- Apple ($AAPL) is planning to shift semiconductor purchases to U.S.-based plants. (bloomberg.com)
- How AirPod Pros can be used as a hearing aid. (cell.com)
Housing
- National homebuilder confidence dropped sharply in November. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Americans are increasingly tapping HELOCs. (wsj.com)
- Airbnb ($ABNB) has a supply problem. (ft.com)
Economy
- Big tech layoffs don't mean the economy is in recession. (tker.co)
- A normalizing auto industry is a tail wind to the American economy. (washingtonpost.com)
- Child care problems are keeping Americans away from work. (axios.com)
Pickleball
- On the rise of pickleball across America. (frontofficesports.com)
- Pickleball is already going upscale with inside facilities. (insidehook.com)
- The Pickleball Club is expanding. (finance.yahoo.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Personal finance links: a 100% probability event. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Tuesday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Research links: misunderstanding complex systems. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Humans have been consuming alcohol for millennia, but people are increasingly saying no. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Life is complicated, your workout doesn't have to be. (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)