Worth Reading

I commend some recent articles to your attention.

• Wade Pfau has written a new research paper called An Efficient Frontier for Retirement Income (summary on Wade’s blog here).
• Can we fix the widespread misinformation that is so prevalent? 
• Looking at investment styles.
• Robert Samuelson says it’s time to retire the American Dream.
• Joe Duran on financial-life management.
• Here’s the best article I read this week.
• Idiot of the week; unless it’s this guy; or this woman.
• Don’t miss a visual presentation of the federal budget and the deficit problem — using charts and graphs — from Above the Market.
• As Barry Ritholtz points out, the bail-outs weren’t good investments at all; here he writes about QE3.
• The stupid, it burns.
• Nate Silver’s take on the state of the presidential campaign.
• Rob Arnott shows why target date funds need to be re-imagined.
• Eddy Elfenbein on the importance of extreme events.
• Are advisers worth their fee?
• An oral history of Cheers.

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