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Director of Investor Education at Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC and Editor of Abnormal Returns.

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@abnormalreturns
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@SummerRay Sexy Mistaking Raisins for Chocolate Chips In A Cookie
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At only $7.17 (or $3.99 Kindle), "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" by @neiltyson would be a great stocking stuffer this holiday season.
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The Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters are often recommended as a great, free investment curriculum. I would argue that reading the collected works of @mjmauboussin would rank right up there. Including this most recent piece on EV/EBITDA:
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@abnormalreturns
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I think our definitions of "historic lows" are very different.
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The @Royals are reportedly for sale for roughly $1 billion. The current owner purchased the club in 2000 for $96 million. Doing that math, and leaving aside any intervening cash flows, that works out to a 13.1% compound return over 19 years.
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@abnormalreturns
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Abnormal Returns today celebrates its fourteenth blogiversary. Thank you for another year of your readership and support. image:
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@EddyElfenbein How much is attributable to Dave and how much to Buster?
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@abnormalreturns
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10 apps to make you a better investor including @stocktwits and @RobinhoodApp . (via @ProductHunt )
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To all those kids in high school who said I would never gather 66k followers on a not-yet created social network based on a not-yet commercialized Internet: suck it.
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[1 of 2] This podcast with @pmarca . @bhorowitz and @stewart on lessons learned from the first ten years of @a16z is highly recommended.
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Sunday links: the limitations of private markets, the rise of indexing in Europe and in praise or equanimity. image:
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@abnormalreturns
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I have now been on Twitter for over ten years talking largely about finance and investing. It just so happens that my first viral tweet, as it were, is about my dislike of raisins. Go figure...
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@SummerRay Sexy Mistaking Raisins for Chocolate Chips In A Cookie
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@abnormalreturns
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It's only 7AM but can confidently say this is the best thing you will watch/read all day.
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John Bonham has come back as an 8 year old girl, I can't begin to describe how amazing this child is!! #LedZeppelin
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@abnormalreturns
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How to write like @morganhousel : 1. Read a lot, widely. 2. Take long walks. 3. Edit ruthlessly. 4. Be Morgan Housel. (via @david_perell ) (via @ritholtz )
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@abnormalreturns
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[post] The U-curve for happiness is real. Why happiness hits a trough in middle age and what to do about it.
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@abnormalreturns
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It takes a lot to get me to LOL but this one did...
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“Trading is a job with low stress and you get to work from home.” -Harold (28 years old)
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Seth Godin, "To be in the top 1% takes a combination of luck and magical talent. But to be in the top 5%, one in twenty, is mostly about choices."
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@abnormalreturns
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There is a good chance you are, at this very moment, sitting incorrectly. (via
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I don't pre-order many books but "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution" by @GZuckerman is definitely one of them.
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@abnormalreturns
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The @ReformedBroker just unleashed an epic post for your Thanksgiving holiday reading pleasure. Make yourself a turkey sandwich and sit down for an education.
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@abnormalreturns
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Today marks the 11th blogiversary of Abnormal Returns. Thanks for all your support through the years! $$
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@abnormalreturns
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In a 'random watch down Wall Street,' @michaelbatnick and @awealthofcs watch 'Margin Call.' IMHO, one of two great GFC movies, 'The Big Short' being the other.
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@abnormalreturns
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Your must-read this weekend: "Mobile is eating the world" by @BenedictEvans . $AAPL $GOOG $gOOGL $FB $MSFT
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@abnormalreturns
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[post] Time spent watching the stock market is time wasted.
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@abnormalreturns
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📊 Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns including: replicating venture capital returns, the downside of owning a vacation home, and the 60/40 portfolio drawdown. image:
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@abnormalreturns
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[post] Abnormal Returns is thirteen years old! Read about two big lessons I have learned along the way. image:
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In an epic post, @ReformedBroker has either identified the defining feature of the capital markets for the next few decades or he just "called the top in the decade-long growth versus value massacre"? You make the call!
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Thursday links: overweight cash, a shrinking middle class and the downside of shared passwords. image:
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A look inside how the DE Shaw "machine" operates. (via @RobinWigg )
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It's hard to be genuinely surprised these days by the news with all like leaks, hints and subtweets. However, the news that Amazon is raising minimum wages to $15 an hour for all employees caught me unawares.
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@abnormalreturns
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Here is the @SSRN link to the paper "Do Global Stocks Outperform US Treasury Bills?" that everyone will soon be talking about:
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@abnormalreturns
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[new] Personal finance links: the first rule of personal finance, a spending checklist & investing against yourself.
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Watch this video about stock buybacks with @ReformedBroker , @michaelbatnick and @epsilontheory . Then, check out Ben's new post which serves as a helpful companion piece:
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@abnormalreturns
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I am a huge fan of William Bernstein and @awealthofcs does a great job talking with him about the crazy, new world we live in.
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@abnormalreturns
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This year @mebfaber and I asked finance bloggers about their favorite posts & podcasts. Here is the elite list: $$
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50 of the best investing blogs on the planet, plus a couple more (2016) (via @acquirersx ) $$
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@abnormalreturns
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This is really good…
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My Q&A with Michael Batnick ( @michaelbatnick ) author of the newly published "Big Mistakes: The Best Investors and Their Worst Investments." We were able to tease out some commonalities across investors:
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A picture is worth a thousand words. Take a minute to peruse these. ( @safalniveshak )
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Criminally underfollowed bloggers? We got 'em. Our panel of finance bloggers highlight their favorite follows. image:
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I recognize that Nassim Taleb is a controversial figure, but his first book: "Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets" is a worthwhile read. The Kindle-version is on sale for $2.99:
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Claude Shannon, father of information theory, had great success in the stock market. The 'how' may surprise you...
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[post] Abnormal Returns 'celebrated' its 15th blogiversary yesterday...and I forgot all about it. 2020, amirite? image:
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50 of the best investing blogs on the planet - 2017 edition. (via @acquirersx )
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"The very first thing a true behavioral investor must do is realize that she/he is just as susceptible to all of the same risks, oversights and foibles as the next person." - @danielcrosby From a Q&A with Daniel Crosby author of "The Behavioral Investor"
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[post] In search of an edge: the life and times of Ed Thorp. A look at Thorp's memoir "A Man for All Markets." $$
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I couldn't resist.
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@abnormalreturns
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I hope they come with $580 in cash in the pockets...
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$600 cargo shorts.
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Sleep matters! NBA players who were 'late night tweeting' the night before a game perform worse than their average. (via @usefulsci )
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@abnormalreturns
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This Michael Lewis piece is, not surprisingly, excellent. (via @business )
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@abnormalreturns
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Check out this market correction reading list with the latest posts from: @downtown , @michaelbatnick and @awealthofcs . chart:
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Truth. "Any data going back to the 1800s is suspect, whether it’s used for the stock market, housing, or avocado toast menu prices. There’s just no way the records going back that far are reliable." - @awealthofcs
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@abnormalreturns
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Love this idea of buying back personal medical debt at cents on the dollar in order to extinguish it for people. (via @nytimes ) Nice work, @RIPMedicalDebt !
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@abnormalreturns
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There are yield curve inversions and there are YIELD CURVE INVERSIONS...
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Great chart by @Solomon_Slate showing the breadth of the yield curve inversion. Historically, we might want to see at least 70% of the yield curve invert before the recession trigger is given. Recession probably follows immediately or up to 24 months of lag.
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This is not stuff you can just Google. Must watch for anyone aspiring to start a fund.
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This made me LOL and 'that's all you can ask.'
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@NYGovCuomo talking about his daughter’s boyfriend @andrewcuomo
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Can this morning get any better? 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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Drinking alcohol did not shrink people's brains.
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@ReformedBroker It's finally infrastructure week!
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@TheStalwart Cue the hedge fund blown up by its Tesla short position story in 3,2,1...
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Statistical issues, be damned. More butter = greater happiness. (via @bigthink )
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🆓What everyone was clicking on this week [11.30.19] on Abnormal Returns which includes: a five-step investment checklist, investment books that have stood the test of time and the best investment YOU can make. image:
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@abnormalreturns
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How can you not share this? 🤷‍♂️ Wordle 217 2/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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"What’s the deal with our tendency to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt while not doing the same for others?" (via @nireyal )
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Fixed it.
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Not saying she’s going to end up like Johnny Depp but consider the carrying costs of all these homes.
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Taylor Swift owns at least $84 million in real estate across four states — and she's not even 30
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@abnormalreturns
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Please read Bill's thread all the way through this Veteran's Day. 🙏
@billsweet
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Quick note about what it's like to be on the receiving end of "thank you for your service" (1/10)
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Stocks haven't been this cheap since 2011. (per @MstarResearch )
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Finance blogger wisdom: the death of value: July 8, 2019 -
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This visualization of world population in 2018 is awesome. (via @MaxCRoser )
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Just updated our recent Dow post to include data from 1896. $DIA $DJIA
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Congrats to @brianportnoy on “The Geometry of Wealth” landing on this @businessinsider list of 15 business books to read this Summer:
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Hands down, this was my favorite read of the week...
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The beautiful and unlikely friendship between Charles Barkley and Lin Wang:
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Hands-down the best thing, I saw this weekend...
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A story in 3 TikToks. The internet and social media can be great 1/3
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I've wanted to start a podcast for some time now. Then I listen to ILTB by @patrick_oshag every week and think "Oh, crap. I can't do one better than this." And get myself another cup of coffee...
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This @michaelbatnick post may not be what you want to read this morning, but maybe what you need to read.
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@jasonzweigwsj Cryptomining?
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@ReformedBroker Sounds like the beginning of a joke: Paulson, Bernanke and Geithner walk into a bar...
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If you haven't read it yet you should read this @jposhaughnessy post on his experience around the 1987 market crash.
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My favorite book on meditation: "10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works" by @danbharris is just $2.99 for the Kindle.
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Could argue this is the best comic strip ever written/drawn. (via @ritholtz )
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@abnormalreturns
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Well worth a watch.
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"Only purpose of building #wealth is independence and control...ability to wake up every morning and say I can do whatever I want today." ~ @morganhousel I agree, Morgan. I have experienced this life for 10+ years now.😇 Watch the entire episode here -
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Investment nerd alert! The 2018 Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook is now available.
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A little late to this, but here is my response to @RampCapitalLLC 's question about the stuff, 50 years from now, that we will find unfathomable about society today. My answer: the stigma around mental illness.
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🆓 Friday links: the energy sector drawdown, the bull market in Tupperware and why nostalgic logos are currently in vogue. chart:
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[post] Luck, skill and the 1987 stock market crash or how many investors came to an evidence-based approach. $STUDY
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was once the center of the online finance/investment world. Revisit this classic @ReformedBroker post from 2010 chronicling its rise (and fall):
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Once Valued at $1.7 billion, to be Acquired by The Maven Inc. for $16.5 million ✍🗞
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[post] We are all quants now: get used to it. $STUDY cc: @ritholtz @reformedbroker @druce @alphaarchitect
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🆓Wednesday links: high asset class correlations, pulling back from the pandemic borrowing binge and how remote work differs from 'work from home.' chart:
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Well, it is a coin picker’s market...
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Research shows financial advisors recommend poorly designed portfolios because that is what they invest in personally. (via @SSRN )
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Why are they arresting David Letterman?
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