Real assets
Buybacks
- Capex spending is often rewarded during boom periods. (fortunefinancialadvisors.com)
- Share buybacks are improperly demonized. (papers.ssrn.com)
Strategy
- Americans are holding a lot of stock. (jlfmi.tumblr.com)
- The case for activist investors. (fortune.com)
Books
- Barry Ritholtz's must-read books of 2017. (bloomberg.com)
- Ray Dalio will give $10 to charity if you buy a copy of his book "Principles." (principles.com)
- "A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War" by Victor Davis Hanson is just $1.99 for the Kindle. (amazon.com)
Crypto
- For a markets junkie, Bitcoin has it all. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
- Coinbase is now the most popular iPhone app. (recode.net)
- Open a Coinbase account, trade $100 in cryptocurrency and get $10 in Bitcoin free. (coinbase.com)
Finance
- Why the issuance of non-traded REITs has plummeted. (investmentnews.com)
- Echofin aims to be the 'Slack for finance.' (techcrunch.com)
Fund management
- What makes a money manager unique? (ritholtz.com)
- You can't run a AI-fund without human intervention. (economist.com)
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Economy
- The November NFP report was strong including a 4.1% unemployment rate. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Nine charts that explain the November NFP report. (blogs.wsj.com)
- It's hard to find much to complain about in the macroeconomy. (fat-pitch.blogspot.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Podcast links: tipping tales. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Thursday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Startup links: minimum critical mass. (abnormalreturns.com)