These Are the Goods
Posted January 7, 2018 by Michael Batnick
Articles
Sitting on the couch watching my stocks dive up and down on CNN all day, or going on a cruise or two before I die, isn’t for me
By Candice Reed
If you’d told yourself a story for 35 years and suddenly discovered it wasn’t true, how would you react?
By Ramit Sethi
Many colleges have become diploma mills. Students are majoring in grade inflation.
By Tony Isola
It is okay when everything you do is not a home run.
By Nick Maggiulli
We believe there is an opportunity here, but we’re probably wrong
By Corey Hoffstein
Relative underperformance of sizable length and high degree, is actually quite normal.
By Doug Grim
The single best day for the S&P 500 in 2017 was a rise of just 1.38 percent.
By Barry Ritholtz
From my experiences, the rosier the view, the closer we are to disaster.
By Dina Isola
Asset allocation explains 93.6% of variation in portfolio returns.
By Peter Lazaroff
Amazon made $2.4 billion in 2016 on unredeemed gift cards.
By Visual Capitalist
As my date on prom night once said, It is what it is.
By Josh Brown
It seems like the biggest use case for blockchain technology is adding it to your company’s name and seeing your stock skyrocket.
By Ben Carlson
Although the S&P SmallCap 600 took an extra decade’s worth of research into account in its construction as a benchmark, the Russell 2000 is far more widely used.
By Jodie Gunzberg
The early bird gets the worm , but the second mouse gets the cheese .
By Cullen Roche
Podcasts
Rising prices attracts buyers, falling prices attracts sellers.
With Michael and Ben
Talent is universal, opportunities are not
With Patrick O’Shaughnessy and Sheel Tyle
Don’t read the comments section.
With Barry Ritholtz and Anil Dash
Dracula’s running the blood bank.
With Bill Simmons and Chris Borland
Books
Before mirrors came along, the average person went through life without ever seeing a truly accurate representation of his or her face
By Steven Johnson
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