Having a Bad Day? Think of Ronald Wayne . . .
I’ll have more on this tomorrow, but its a fascinating story: April 12, 1976
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What the iPhone has done to cameras is completely insane
Source: Washington Post
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Why I Prefer Dividends
The biggest source of fresh cash in American equities isn’t speculators or exchange-traded funds — it’s companies buying their own stock, by a 6-to-1 margin. —Bloomberg News, March 2015 There’s been a lot of chatter about stock buybacks the past few years. Some people believe share repurchases are propping up the market; others…
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10 Monday AM Reads
The days get longer and warmer, let’s see if the markets do as well. Here are our Green-jacketed morning train reads: • How Come It’s Still Harder to Become a Hairdresser than a Financial Adviser? (MoneyBeat) • Trading Costs & The New Market Averages (Wealth of Common Sense) • The world has too many workers. Here’s one way to fix…
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1Q16: Goodbye momentum, hello value
I like this observation from Savita Subramanian of BAML: Eighth-biggest intra-quarter reversal in history With the S&P 500’s 10% drop and 13% rally off the lows, 1Q16 saw the eighth-biggest reversal in the past 350+ quarters. Q1 was a tale of two halves, ending with the S&P 500 lagging Gold and bonds, but beating cash…
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10 Sunday Reads
My easy-like Sunday morning reads: • Social Media: The Cornerstone of Financial Firms in the 21st Century (CFA Institute) • Are Private Equity Returns Overstated? (A Wealth of Common Sense) • Millennial Employees Confound Big Banks (WSJ) • Need to Hide Some Income? You Don’t Have to Go to Panama (NYT) • The US government has a $20.4 trillion retirement…
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Rogue One Trailer
Really? Another FN Death Star?
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How Imminent is a Recession?
What are the chances of a recession? Not what you’d think. Barry Ritholtz Washington Post, April 3 2016 For at least five years, we have been hearing that the United States is on the verge of slipping into a recession. Of course, it hasn’t — and probably won’t anytime soon. I’d like to…
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MiB: Keith Ross, CEO of PDQ, former CEO of Getco
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 unique inverse auctions for institutional trading. Previously, he ran Getco, one of the largest HFT forms (Getco was sold to Knight Trading last year for $1.4B). In our conversation, we…
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10 Weekend Reads
Pour yourself a mug of French Roast, and settle into your favorite easy chair, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads • Jamie Dimon on Finance: “Who Owns the Future?” (BloombergMarkets) • Alpha or Assets: Strategies should be built for alpha, not scale—but the asset management industry has gone in the opposite direction. (Investor Field Guide) • The…
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Ben L’Oncle Soul: Seven Nation Army live
Ben L’Oncle Soul – SevenNationArmy live
TV-Mittschnitt OneShotNot, Cool!
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Succinct Summations for Week’s Events April 8 2016
Succinct Summations for the week ending April 8th 2016 Positives: ISM Non-manufacturing index came in at 54.5, up from 53.4 previously. New jobless claims fell to 267k, down from 276k previously. The MBA mortgage composite index rose 2.7% w/o/w. Bloomberg’s consumer comfort index held steady at 42.6. PMI services index came in at 51.3, a…
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S&P 500: 1964-2016 With & Without FOMC Days
Interesting — not sure what meaning it has, if any: Source: Bloomberg
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U.S. Is One of World’s Biggest Tax Havens
Source: Washington Post
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10 Friday AM Reads
Interesting week! Finish it strong with the finest morning train reads in the land: • Dimon at the Bat for Big Banks (Gadfly) • Losing Money (AVC) • Why Bull Markets Make Everyone Miserable (Reformed Broker) • 9 Seinfeld GIFs Help Explain “Fidicuciary” Rule (House Committee on Financial Services) • How the U.S. became one of the world’s biggest tax…
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GLC Coupé (Concept) by Mercedes-Benz
With 2 cars coming off lease next month, I was looking for an all wheel drive 5 passenger vehicle that had to do 4 things: 1) Make it up my driveway in the winter; 2) Have room for the 2 hairy beasts to fit in the back seat; 3) not drive like a truck; 4)…
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An Hour with XMSR’s Pete Dominick…
I spend an hour discussing all sorts of really fascinating topics with Pete Dominick; its satellite, so there is the occasionally NSFW word here and there. Fiduciary standards, retirement accounts, and why things are looking better Why a modern 2 party system requires 2 scientific literate rational parties (we don’t have that)
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10-year Government Bond Yields Around the World
Nothing like a map to give you a global perspective on where interest rates are on a country by country basis:
Source: Bloomberg
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US Chamber of Commerce No Longer Represents Business
In 1912, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce was created at the behest of President William Howard Taft as a business counterweight to the growing labor movement. To say it was a success is an understatement. While organized labor has languished, the Chamber has become the single largest lobbying organization in the country. According to Open…
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10 Thursday AM Reads
My Brooklyn sourced, gluten-free, organic morning train reads: • What Do Share Buybacks Really Tell Us About the Stock Market? (Wealth of Common Sense) • Conflict of Interest Rule Could Save Americans Billions in Retirement: Fiduciary standard will force brokers to do what’s best for clients instead of looking out for themselves (Bloomberg) but see Wall Street Dodged a…
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- Re: Bond ETFs for Euro investor October 2, 2022Stork wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 3:17 pm The market has now changed so much we consider putting some of our cash into bond ETFs, and as we are in Euroland we think it should be Euro or Euro hedged. Both Eurozone and G7 bond ETFs have a significant part of Italian bonds, we are […]glorat
- Re: 3.69% term deposits on the USD : Should I jump in? October 2, 2022I'm saying a whole bunch of advanced stuff in my previous posts for education. If that's too much, I'll break it down into actionable advice Option 1) You don't mind losing principal Invest in a global bond ETF. You'll save at least 0.5% in fees by choosing this over HSBC time deposits Option 2) You […]glorat
- Re: Conversation with co workers/ financial literacy among non-boglehead types October 2, 2022I am not surprised at what OP found. My brother and I inherited. A nice amount from my mom in an inherited IRA. He did not realize that taking all from the would that the tax bill for most of the money would be over 30%. Both wife and brother have no idea of expenses […]Dottie57
- Re: Why isn't diversification working... October 2, 2022Logan Roy wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:36 pm bethanybeachreader wrote: ↑Fri Sep 30, 2022 6:38 pm This is a very rookie question. I always thought that diversification was a good thing. When the stock market went up, bonds didn't do so well. And vice versa, when stocks did bad, bonds would help to limit […]helloyou
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