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July 5, 2017 1:43 pm

07/05/17 – Wednesday’s Interest-ing Reads

• The Most Valuable Global Brands (ft)
• This is the true definition of confidence. (heleo)
• Next Minsky Moment? Keep Eye on Sovereign Debt (bloomberg)
• What retirees can do to offset cognitive decline. (bloomberg)
• Worrying Is A Serious Offense (wordpress)
• Big Path Capital is a boutique investment bank focused solely on socially responsible companies. (barrons)
• Big Tech Deals Take a Holiday. Enjoy It While It Lasts. (bloomberg)
• Apple Disrupts Silicon Valley w/New Headquarters (nytimes)
• Investor statements don’t really tell them what they need to know. (theirrelevantinvestor)
• How to stop being a doormat. (quietrev)
• What’s your vision for retirement? (petetheplanner)
• Some tools and apps to help you save, budget and pay down debt. (genyplanning)
• The case for increasing portfolio risk in retirement. (blog.cordantwealth)
• Stock Market Has Been in a New Price Regime for 20 Years (yahoo)
• The Kind of Investing that Could Make Retirement Easy (usatoday)
• These are the 4 L’s of retirement planning. (retirementresearcher)
• The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians (lawfareblog)
• Hedge funds heart European stocks. (wsj)
• Taking a Look at North Korea: Country & Military by the Numbers (247wallst)
• U.S. Steel Imports and the National Security Myth (realclearmarkets)
• If you haven’t tried to reduce your cellphone bill lately, you are missing out. (wsj)
• Our Kids Will Thank Us for Rolling Back Net Neutrality (thefiscaltimes)
• American Luxury Driving’s Back w/ Smart Man’s Rolls (spectator)
• How to buy a stake in AQR. (institutionalinvestor)
• Seven signs of overhyped fintech (blogs.lse.ac.uk)
• What goes into the rent vs. buy decision. (humbledollar)
• Obama’s Intervention In Investment Advice Predictably Failed (nationalreview)
• A discussion with Jon Stein CEO of Betterment. (businessinsider)
• Confidence Boomed After the Election. The Economy Hasn’t. (nytimes)
• Are younger men really getting lured out of the work force by video games? (nytimes)
• Closing retail stores will help remake suburbia. (bloomberg)
• Activists are taking their show to Europe with some tweaks in tow. (ft)
• We Need to Avoik the UK’s Mistakes, Do Taxes Right (nypost)
• Managed futures for the last 12 months have matched the performance of bonds and commodities. (mrzepczynski.blogspot)
• June ISM: No Swoon to Report for Manufacturing (realclear)
• Better Ways to Measure CEO Pay: Summary compensation tables massively understate what executives earn and don’t tell investors what they need to know (wsj)
• Research shows retirement planning works. (papers.ssrn)
• Claire Lew, "Err on the side of generosity. The way you want your employees to feel about their work will affect the way they do their work." (m.signalvnoise)
• Shaking the Weak Economic Hand of Russia (project-syndicate)
• There is still a chance to refinance your mortgage at below 4% rates. (financialsamurai)
• Oh! What a Lovely Trade War (nytimes)
• Two Big Lending Changes Mean It’s Easier to Get a Mortgage (cnbc)
• Factor picking is the new sector picking. (pragcap)
• Behavioral finance is for individuals, not markets (dpegan)
• Another sign that quant isn’t as easy as it looks. (bloomberg)
• Be A Patient Investor Like Buffett With These Stocks (forbes)
• The View at the Beach: Our Favorite Summer Reads (bloomberg)
• Speculators Are Ignoring the Major Cliff We’re Perched On (hussmanfunds)
• Is This Exxon’s Secret Weapon Against Electric Cars? (oilprice)
• Roger Federer Reminds Us Labor Market Works, Like a Market.. (si)
• How to spot trend changes prior to a recession. (capitalspectator)
• Even technology companies are recognizing the need for tangible assets, like real estate. (bloomberg)
• Real estate near the new Apple ($AAPL) HQ is soaring in value. (nytimes)
• Young Wall Street-types are none too happy. (businessinsider)
• Shifting Sentiment? (schwab)
• We Are the 99 Percent—Except for the Top 20 Percent of Us (thenation)
• Revolutionaries don’t retire. (bigthink)
• 2017 First Half Key Takeaways (wordpress)
• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Is Suffocating Growth (usatoday)
• Risks remain amid the global recovery (ft)
• Four mistakes you make shopping on Amazon ($AMZN). (moneyish)
• Poland’s economy is on the rise. (nytimes)
• Low-Income Families Spend 40% of Their Money on Luxuries (marketwatch)
• Americans are in no celebratory mood this 4th of July. But they should be (theguardian)
• The Future According to Elon Musk&#xA0 (bloomberg)
• Here’s Probably the Only Way to Fix North Korea Now (cnbc)
• What History Truly Says About Low Stock-Market Volatility (bloomberg)
• What a ‘faux-tirement’ can teach you about actual retirement. (beta.morningstar)