“A Republic, If You Can Keep It…”
In 1787, Ben Franklin said that our founders had created “a republic, if you can keep it.” More than a monarchy or...
What If You Only Invested at Market Peaks?
This is the story of Bob, the world’s worst market timer. Follow along on Bob’s journey as an investor who had the misfortune...
Video: Wrapping up 2020
Why the economy is not the stock market, the performance of human-run hedge funds compared to quants, and why more money flowing into...
How Pfizer and Bio-N-Tech Bet on mRNA
Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, were the only major vaccine developers to refuse federal money for research and development, yet...
Accelerating the Advancement of Future Technology
Barry Ritholtz, founder of Ritholtz Wealth Management and a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, says we are accelerating the advancement of...
Time: The History and Future of Everything
How much time do you have left? Time makes sense in small pieces. But when you look at huge stretches of time, it’s almost...
“Unprecedented” Is 2020 Word of the Year
I tell Tom Keene on “Bloomberg Surveillance: “The unprecedented comes along all the time…32 new highs in the market?...
Oversampling: Did Covid Impact Polling?
I have been working on a post-2020 “Lessons for Investors” column, when I stumbled upon an interesting Nate...
Coronavirus Pandemic Halfway Point
This is a first: Martin Bamford of Informed Choice (Twitter, YouTube) made a video of our recent post, The Halfway Point: “Over the...
Electric Pickup Truck War
We have previously looked at the 2022 Hummer EV, the Bollinger B1, Nikola Badger, and the Rivian R1T. Bloomberg looks at the...