by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 15, 2016 | Financial-Blogs
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover Happy Hippie Presents: Backyard Sessions – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover performed by Miley Cyrus Click here to donate: http://happyhippies.org/#donate To launch The Happy Hippie Foundation, Miley created a new Backyard Sessions series and invitedspecial musical guests to perform with her to make these music video collaborations. Founded…
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 15, 2016 | Financial-Blogs
The Untold History of Aretha Franklin’s Irrevocable “Respect” www.elle.com/culture/music/a35398/arethas-anthem/?src=longreads Aretha Franklin Best Rendition ‘Respect Live 1968 Aretha Franklin Day (Rare)’ Aretha Franklin – Respect (Live)
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 15, 2016 | Financial-Blogs, Markets
Succinct Summations for the week ending April 15th 2016 Positives: Initial jobless claims came in at 253k, down from 267k previously. S. and global stocks finished the week higher. CPI rose 0.1% m/o/m and 0.9% y/o/y. Core inflation rose 0.1% m/o/m. Bloomberg consumer comfort index came in at 43.6, better than the 42.6 expected. Mortgage…
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 15, 2016 | Financial-Blogs, Legal
Those shielding all of their wealth in Panama from local tax authorities were surprised by a massive leak. Here’s how it occurred: Panama tax papers: the taxonomy of the leak Source: The Economist
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 15, 2016 | Financial-Blogs
Ok, let’s get this out of the way right up front: Time magazine has just pulled off a brilliant marketing coup. Proving there is no such thing as bad publicity, the 93-year old weekly, with its fading relevancy and free-falling paid subscriptions, has trolled everyone talking about them. Bye-bye journalism, hello social media. And all…
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 15, 2016 | Financial-Blogs
Quite a week! Finish it strong with our morning train reads: • James Grant Debt Rant — Time Magazine’s New Cover Story — Is Unforgivably Idiotic; Its Every Bad Conservative Argument About the National Debt Wrapped Into One (Slate) • People hate the stock market, and that might not change for ‘decades’ (Business Insider) • Active managers smash passive…
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 15, 2016 | Financial-Blogs
Year: 2004 Make: FORD Model: GT PROTOTYPE (CP-1) Stock 1311E Vin: 1FAFP90SX4Y400004 Our family and car collector buddy Uncle Jan has his hands on an astounding piece of automotive history. It is offered for sale for a cool $1m. A little background: During the Great Recession, Ford decided to raise some cash to ride out the financial…
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 14, 2016 | Financial-Blogs, Politics
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Credit Reports (HBO)
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 14, 2016 | Financial-Blogs
Fascinating analysis on US life expectancies from Neil Irwin and Quoctrung Bui at the NYT on the various factors that impact life expectancies in America. We all assume that having money — and the insurance, access to good health care, and all the rest — impacts life expectancy. However, did you imagine the disparacy was this stark, that the richest…
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 14, 2016 | Economy, Financial-Blogs
For some time now, economic data geeks have had a fun little tool to play around with — the GDPNow forecast by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta of quarterly gross domestic product growth. Rather than wait three months for the official GDP data, the wonks at the Atlanta Fed broke GDP into its component…
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 14, 2016 | Financial-Blogs, Politics
Fascinating analysis of how much attention is paid to the Federal Reserve by members of Congress (via introduced legislation) plotted against the misery index. Post credit crisis, its apparent that Congress is out over their skis: Source: Brookings
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 14, 2016 | Financial-Blogs
“Nice rally you got there for a few days . . . it would be a shame if anything happened to it . . .” Also, our morning train reads: • Litigation v. Innovation Defined contribution’s sweeping paralysis. (CIO) • Music sales growing at fastest rate since 1998 (FT) • The dirty little secret that data journalists aren’t…
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 13, 2016 | Financial-Blogs
By many measures, the U.S. economy has spent most of the past six-plus years getting better: Unemployment has fallen by half to 5 percent, 12 million jobs have been created and household wealth is atrecord highs. Specific industries and regions seem to be doing well. But those averages belie exactly how uneven the gains have…
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 13, 2016 | Employment, Financial-Blogs
From Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Men, as a group, have been less and less inclined to participate in the labor market since at least World War II. From 1970 to 1999, the male participation rate declined from 80 percent to 75 percent. This decline coincided with rising participation by women, with the female participation…
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 13, 2016 | Financial-Blogs
Wake up to the finest morning train reads in the land: • You Call This a Bull Market? (Gadfly) • A Robot Wants Your Job The investor of the future may already be incubating in a computer lab. Time to adapt to survive. (CIO) • We’re running out of water, and the world’s powers are very worried…
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 12, 2016 | Financial-Blogs, Politics
The NRA stands up for strict regulation! Of its mascot costume!
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 12, 2016 | Economy, Employment, Financial-Blogs, Real-Estate
Source: Visual Capitalist
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 12, 2016 | Financial-Blogs
This week on our Masters in Business podcast, we speak with Keith Ross, chairman and CEO PDQ Enterprises, a Dark Pool and ATS firm specializing in a form of unique inverse auctions. Previously, he ran Getco, one of the largest HFT forms (Getco purchased Knight Trading last year for $1.4B). In our conversation, we discuss what High Frequency…
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 12, 2016 | Financial-Blogs, Technology
Source: The Economist
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by Barry Ritholtz | Apr 12, 2016 | Financial-Blogs
Our two-fer-Tuesday morning train reads: • Travails of the active fund manager may only just be beginning (FT) see also Active asset managers knocked by shift to passive strategies (FT) • E-Commerce, Strong Demand Put U.S. Industrial Availability at 15-Year Low (World Property Journal) but see Why no economic boost from lower oil prices? (Econbrowser) • Reflections…
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