In light of that incidence last week with those terrible pop up ads, I have a question for the assembled multitudes: Running the blog at this point requires a decent amount of expenditures. Hosting, editorial assistance, research all costs some shekels,...
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See if you can identify which person engages in sensationalism and which does real journalism. Hat tip Business Insider
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Missing the Target Source: WSJ You may have missed the WSJ’s takedown on Target-date funds this weekend. Its a must. The idea of target date funds are a form of auto-pilot that automatically shifts allocations into more bonds less stocks as the...
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Eliot Spitzer, former Governor and Attorney General for the State of New York, talks with Bloomberg Law’s Lee Pacchia about the so-called revolving door between the public and private spheres. While he doesn’t think the entire concept requires regulatory...
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ciick for giant infographic Source: Letterbox Click to enlarge Source: Letterbox
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I am not sure I fully agree with this BlackRock chart — there are times when cash makes sense. However, I cannot disagree with the takeaway that you cannot sit in cash for very long stretches of time (years) and expect any sort of return above inflation....
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Source: Motley Fool Morgan Housel has a very insightful column this morning, driven by one of my favorite topics: Taking yourself out of the minute-to-minute, day-to-day time frame and rethinking your investing parameters in terms of years and decades....
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Amusing: Click to enlarge Source: xkcd
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The Times’s David Gillen on market gyrations as Wall Street and world economies tries to guess when the Federal Reserve will slow, or taper, its extraordinary measures to bolster the economy Taper Tantrum June 17, 2013 By Eric Paternot and Ben Werschkul...
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Click to enlarge Source: Mother Jones
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The pushback from the weekend’s WaPo column was surprisingly fierce. If you can tell me what asset classes will perform best each year in advance, than by all means over-weight that sector. But if you are like the other 99.99% of investors, you are...
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I have a few conferences coming up later this summer, and as part of one event, I was asked a series of questions in advance. Its a pre- interview, and I figured I would work my way through the questions a little bit all week. But then I read the first...
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Dig it: Published on Jun 6, 2013 Audio mixed by dj BC. Video by Thriftshop XL. From the album “Ill Submarine” www.thebeastles.com www.djbc.net www.bootieatl.com dj BC spins Saturday nights at Gatsby’s in Atlanta: www.gatsbysatlanta.com
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I like the thought process here: How You Can Change Your Decision Making Raise your awareness: Incomplete information and lots of uncertainty leads to poor outcomes Put yourself in the shoes of others: Consider the point of view or experience of other...
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Raskin starts at 3:30 Federal Reserve Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin: I became interested in this question of quality somewhat by accident. I did something atypical one day. I decided on my way into work I would stop at a jobs fair. There was a jobs fair...
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Click for interactive graphic Source: Economist
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What kind of fuckery is this? You made me miss the Slick Rick gig (oh Slick Rick) You thought I didn’t love you when I did (when I did) Can’t believe you played me out like that (Ahhh) -Amy Winehouse, Me & Mr Jones I have throughout my...
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