The Big Picture

This is astonishing: Roads melting, fish dying and bats falling from trees – this is what global warming looks like. Many records have...

Labor Market Is Doing Fine With Higher Minimum Wages Predictions of job losses and slower economic growth haven’t panned out....

My morning train reads: • Will Index Funds Really Take Over the World? Despite passive investing’s relentless progress, a few...

Very interesting data set showing the value of land, minus the structures built on it, across the country: “The analysis provides...

Once upon a time, investors were sold stories about the individual holdings in a portfolio and were enticed to invest based on the...

Stock-Pickers Don’t Know How to Sell They actually do OK figuring out what to buy. But they need to do a better job unloading stuff....

My midweek morning train reads: • The Insane Story of How an Early Quant Investor Went Rogue (Institutional Investor) • Warren...

Instant classic: (mouse over for James Tobin Easter egg) Source: xkcd

Perhaps more than any person in the modern era of finance, Jack Bogle changed the course of investing history. He did it with a...

Praise for John Bogle Compounds, Just Like His Returns He showed that average returns were fine, keeping costs low was crucial, and...