These Are the Goods

Articles

When 120 of the Commodore’s descendants gathered at Vanderbilt University in 1973 for the first family reunion, there was not a millionaire among them.

By Nick Maggiulli

People should read more history and fewer forecasts

By Morgan Housel

Mean-reversion based arguments are tricky. Use with caution.

By Sri Thiruvadanthai

None of it serves as a basis for establishing an investment strategy.

By Barry Ritholtz

There is an arc to being an asshole.

By Scott Galloway

As information becomes more easily accessible it loses its value.

By Ben Carlson

Today, funds with “absolute return” in their names command a total of $22 billion–one month’s work for Vanguard.

By John Rekenthaler

It takes a while to break bad habits.

By Anthony Isola

Inflation (and therefore interest rates) do not exhibit short-term momentum trends that will be identifiable based on chart analysis.

By Cullen Roche

The Market Gods love my gastrointestinal sacrifice.

By Steven Place

Cocaine came along and ruined the pot business.

By Seth Ferranti

Every year since 2009 people have been saying the easy money has been made but it feels like every year making money gets easier.

By Ben Carlson

Make trend following the benchmark.

By Econompic

Podcasts

This was sheer murder.

By Dan Carlin

Quantitative factors are more predictive of the future than expert judgment.

With Meb Faber and Dan Rasmussen

It will be the most powerful media brand in the world by 2025.

With Patrick O’Shaughnessy and Anthony Pompliano

I don’t believe that technical analysis is voodoo bullshit, but.

With Me and Ben

Books

Real-life experience is instructive, but the tuition is high

By Antonio García Martínez

We have now successfully passed all our deadlines without meeting any of them.

By Jon Gertner


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