Talkin’ Taxes with Bill Sweet
Click for audio From All About Your Benjamins: Unless you’re a CPA, you probably don’t like to think about taxes, but after...
Hospital Blood Delivery By Drone
This is amazing: One of the world’s first drone delivery services is all the way in rural Rwanda, where 27 year-old Abdoul Salam...
10 Thursday AM Reads
My morning train reads: • Journalists are not the enemy (The Boston Globe) • An inversion of nature: how air conditioning created...
Economic Opinions Depend Largely on Party
Source: New York Times Surprise! Partisan politics confuses some peoples’ ability to make objective assessments of...
Bloomberg: Index Funds Will Be OK Confronting Cruel Markets
Index Funds Will Be Fine Confronting Cruel Markets The claim that passive investors will suffer more in an equity slump doesn’t hold...
Is Loss Aversion a Fallacy? (No)
A Challenge to the Biggest Idea in Behavioral Finance Two professors make an interesting argument, but the theory of loss aversion...
10 Wednesday AM Reads
My midweek morning train reads: • The evidence is in: Austerian economists got everything wrong. (TheWeek) • The hunt for the next...
10 Laws of Insider Trading
I love this set of advisory rules, as laid out in brilliant dry wit by the wonderful Matt Levine: 10 Laws of Insider Trading 1....
MIB: Lee Cooperman on Giving Away Billions
Lee Cooperman of Omega Advisors has a billion-dollar problem. Over the course of his career, he has accumulated lots of money. Now, he...