These Are the Goods
Posted by Michael Batnick
Articles
On the day before the biggest crash in history, I sold every single put option that I had carefully accumulated over the previous several weeks.
By Jim O’Shaughnessy
The cockpits had been designed for an average pilot who simply did not exist.
By Corey Hoffstein
Getting harder tomorrow doesn’t imply that it’s easy today
By Charlie Bilello
Most investors are basically paranoid and deranged behavioral algorithms.
By Anthony Isola
Why people are so calm about the high-priced market is a bit of a mystery.
By Robert Shiller
Asking a bank CEO what he thinks of bitcoin is like asking the head of the post office what he thinks of e-mail.
By Aaron Brown
I always joke that the book should be called ‘Tulipmania: More Boring Than You Thought’
By Lorraine Boissoneault
Gathering statistics is a skill. Finding facts is a behavior.
By Morgan Housel
You don’t measure the start of a bull market from its bear-market lows.
By Barry Ritholtz
Over the 20-year period, the allocation to global equities ranged between 67% and 38%.
By Northern Trust
Podcasts
We’re talking with managers that we won’t use until the next collapse but when that happens, we’ll be ready.
With Ted Seides and Scott Malpass
You have to have a risk tolerance in this business that’s abnormal
With Patrick O’Shaughnessy and Dave Tisch
Books
Sleep came and brought oblivion and relief from pain for a few hours.
By Viktor Frankl