Ted Cruz’ Least Qualified Economic Advisor
Cruz Seeks Economic Wisdom in the Wrong Place The candidate turns to a man who helped set the stage for the financial crisis. Bloomberg,...
A Closer Look at Kansas’ Tax Cuts
Seth takes a closer look at the results of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s drastic tax cuts. Kansas Tax Cuts: A Closer Look...
Bad Track Record, Poor Model Designs
We live in the age of the quant. Mathematics drives an increasingly large number of investment portfolios. In many ways, this is an...
Dividends Beat Buybacks
Hat tip: David Wilson, Bloomberg Here’s Dave Wilson, citing Liz Ann Sonders of Schwab & Co: Dividend-paying stocks in...
No Cure for Stupid: Seattle Min Wage Edition
@TBPInvictus here: The New York Post’s editorial board apparently cares very little for factual data that disagree with their...
Documentary: The Brainwashing Of My Dad
A filmmaker examines the rise of right-wing media through the lens of her father, whose immersion in it radicalized him and rocked the...
The 24-Hour Market News Cycle
Nice comments from Kiplingers about your humble scribe about the “Worst Mistakes Investors Will Make in This Market” You Get...
Bad Broker!
Source: Bloomberg News Bad brokers don’t leave the business; they just move on to a different firm. That is one of the key...
John Oliver: Whitewashing
With the academy awards coming up, Last Week Tonight asks: Hollywood whitewashing…how is this still a thing? Published on Feb 23,...
D’oh! I wish I hadn’t done that
I am sometimes wrong; on occasion, spectacularly so. One of my biggest complaints about the finance industry and the media that cover it...