Bringing Empiricism to Stock Markets & Investing
We take for granted this modern era of quantitative investing. But it wasn’t always this way; for most of the modern era...
MIB: Why Does the Wilshire 5000 have only 3,486 stocks?
For a quantitative shop, Wilshire Analytics sure has a problem counting. Their flagship Wilshire 5000 has only 3,486 stocks in it. The...
Succinct Summation of Week’s Events 12.14.18
Succinct Summations for the week ending December 14th, 2018 Positives: 1. MBA mortgage applications rose a seasonally-adjusted 3.0%...
10 Friday AM Reads
My end of the week fishing reads: • As Cost of Living Rises and Wages Stagnate, Big City Freelancers Look to Small Cities (Slate)...
10 Wednesday AM Reads
My mid-week morning plane reads: • Welcome to Blaine, the town Amazon Prime built (The Verge) • What became of the...
Don’t Like Amazon’s USPS Deal? Blame Congress
Congress, Not Amazon, Messed Up the Post Office Legislators passed a law that made the USPS less competitive with the private sector....
Who withdraws money from distressed banks?
Who withdraws money from distressed banks? Benjamin Guin, Martin Brown and Stefan Morkoetter Bank Underground, August 30, 2017 ...
10 Monday AM Reads
Our Pro-Science morning train reads: • ‘Silicon Valley’ Is Still the Outrageous, Tech Industry-Skewering Show That We Deserve...