I commend some recent articles to your attention.
- Barry Ritholtz’s Rules of Investing and Debating Jeremy Siegal.
- The diversification value of managed futures.
- High frequency trading doesn’t offer the advertised advantages.
- Leigh Drogen on data and stories.
- John Hussman — still bearish (only more so).
- Roger Lowenstein (a real favorite of mine) on HFT.
- Vanguard, the leading provider of index funds, attracted more money in the first nine months of 2012 than it has in any full calendar year in its 38-year history.
- In-N-Out and PAC-12 football.
- Trying to make sense of the polls.
- Linsanity in Houston.
- You can’t improve your financial situation until you know where you stand.
- Read about Johnny Carson and the “birthday problem” here; my take is here.
- Geoff Considine’s five-part series on saving and investing for retirement is available here.
- The ‘Mother May I’ State.
- The case for the DFA “tilt.”
- IMF Chief: crisis will last a decade.
- Maybe the DALBAR study isn’t gospel.
- Clients want advisors who are experts in them.
- Stop Me Before I Do Something Stupid.
- James Surowiecki on Corporate Welfare Queens.
- Cognitive biases and NFL coaches.
- Great business idea: use loved one’s ashes to make ammo.
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