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10 Biggest Ideas in “How NOT to Invest”

Barry Ritholtz

This is as true for professionals as it is for amateurs; it’s also true in music, film, sports, television, and economic and market forecasting. Economic Innumeracy : Some individuals experience math anxiety, but it only takes a bit of insight to navigate the many ways numbers can mislead us. Bad Numbers : 4. Be tax-aware.

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Avoid the Unforced Investment Errors Even Billionaires Make

Barry Ritholtz

Duration and leverage issues are well known, but lets discuss adding risk: In 2004, I walked into my offices conference room to hear a rep from Lehman Brothers pitch a higher-yielding fixed income product: AAA-rated, safe as Treasuries, but yielding 200-300 basis points more. That was the pitch for securitized subprime mortgages (MBS).

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The Greatest Missed Opportunity of Our Lifetimes

Barry Ritholtz

” That poor belief system has disadvantaged America — it has made us economically weaker, prevented the country from performing basic maintenance on its infrastructure, and generally made it a harsher place to live. Note that we undertook much of the work anyway (airports, electrical grid, roads, etc.),

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

Barry Ritholtz

My Two-for-Tuesday morning train WFH reads: • Stock Pickers Never Had a Chance Against Hard Math of the Market : In years like this one, when just a few big companies outperform, it’s hard to assemble a winning portfolio. Mortgage rates typically trade a spread to the 10 year Treasury yield. With the 10 year at 4.2%

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You’re Living in a World Wrought by Central Banks. Notice Anything Wrong?

CFO News Room

In an interview with Lynn Parramore of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Nomi Prins takes up and extends the argument that she has made over a series of books, that central bankers are ever-more administering policies that are good for the markets but very bad for the real economy and real people. economy and Wall Street.

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New Data: What COVID-19 Is Doing To Main Street SMBs

PYMNTS

They are the very businesses that make America’s cities, towns and urban centers lively and vibrant and interesting — and make our communities culturally, socially and economically strong. Doing The Math. Most of the SMBs we asked aren’t new to the world. It may not be so clear-cut.

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Transcript: Cathy Marcus, PGIM Real Estate

Barry Ritholtz

I was always good at math, but I really, I just didn’t relate to things that were more esoteric bonds options. And, and that is, you know, the treasuries were so low that you could be, have a 4%, 5% yield, even 3% on a real estate investment and still have a nice cushion over treasuries. I have no family history.