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Friday links: doing the right things well
StrategyThe first goal of investing is survival. (awealthofcommonsense.com)Sometimes a basket trade just makes sense. (oldroperes...
Saturday links: thinking with your feet
Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check out...
MiB: Jack Raines, Young Money
This week, I speak with Jack Raines, a writer and venture capitalist. We discuss his new book, “Young Money.” Jack dives i...
3 Mistakes You’re Probably Making With Your Investments
3 Mistakes You’re Probably Making With Your Investments The book “How Not to Invest” highlights the big things investors get wrong...
10 Camp Kotok Weekend Reads
The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend re...
Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (August 8–9)
Enjoy the current installment of "Weekend Reading For Financial Planners" – this week's edition kicks off with the news that the l...
Social Security’s funding crisis is the elephant in the...
No one knows what Congress will do if Social Security’s trust fund were actually to be depleted.
‘Her bank accounts were stripped bare by Medicaid’: My ...
“She left behind a 30-year-old son and 32-year-old daughter.”
‘He’s never been good with money’: If I set up an annui...
“I was shocked to learn that his monthly Social Security benefit will be only $700.”
Micron’s stock falls but is spared the worst of the mem...
Shares of Sandisk and Western Digital fell hard after investors were left unimpressed by those companies’ earnings reports.
My brother asked me to sign as his executor, but wouldn...
“I imagine scenarios like this happen more often than people realize.”
There are good reasons why higher bond yields are here ...
Investors are demanding higher rates when they buy long-duration bonds because there is less demand, higher supply and a hot mess ...
How S&P 500 options action may help explain the rising ...
Bullish derivative bets mesh with the buy-the-dip mentality, says IBKR’s Sosnick.
Kevin O’Leary, aka ‘Mr. Wonderful,’ on crypto, winning ...
What Kevin O’Leary learned from Steve Jobs: You only need to get three things done every day. Just three.
Optical stocks have a China problem that most investors...
Beijing controls a chokepoint that Washington’s own crackdown can’t address.
Longform links: pleasure-free decadence
Thursdays are all about longform links on Abnormal Returns. Wherever possible, free links for premium sites are used. You can chec...
Thursday links: the attention business
ETFsInvestors in crypto ETFs have seen disappointing returns. (morningstar.com)This ETF has essentially been wiped out. (etf.com)...
Returning to Camp Kotok
I am up in Maine discussing economics and markets; bandwidth is hard to come by, as is reception. In the meanwihle, enjoy this...