Finance Coinbase ($COIN) is launching stock trading and prediction markets. (cnbc.com) Charles Schwab ($SCHW) is shutting down Schwab Intelligent Portfolios Premium. (thedailyupside.com) Trump Trump Media ($DJT) is merging with a nuclear fusion company...

Books A review of “The Land Trap: A New History of the World’s Oldest Asset” by Mike Bird. (progressandpoverty.substack.com) An excerpt from Lawrence Yeo’s book “The Inner Compass.” (moretothat.com) Crypto The...

Strategy Investors are suckers for a good growth story. (behaviouralinvestment.com) Diversification as ‘survival insurance.’ (safalniveshak.com) Investors will only wait so long for a factor to pay off. (klementoninvesting.substack.com)...

Podcasts Peter Lazaroff on the important differences between index investing and factor investing. (peterlazaroff.com) Ben Carlson and Duncan Hill talk secular bull markets, asset allocation and bubble analogies with Jurien Timmer of Fidelity....

Books Three investment book recommendations including: “What I Learned About Investing From Darwin” by Pulak Prasad. (flyoverstocks.com) A positive review for Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in...

Reporting Changing reporting requirements won’t magically make management more long-term focused. (blogs.cfainstitute.org) Who wins or loses with less frequent financial reporting. (blogs.cfainstitute.org) Quant stuff How Blackrock ($BLK) has built...

Markets How inflation regimes affect returns for stocks and bonds. (awealthofcommonsense.com) The Fed does not control the long end of the curve. (advisorperspectives.com) The four O’s of market bubbles including ‘over-ownership.’...

Podcasts Josh Brown talks with Mark Bruno, Managing Director and Head of Strategic Advisory at Emigrant Partners, about ‘The RIA Real Deal: What We’ve Learned from a Golden Era of Deal-Making.’ (youtube.com) Barry Ritholtz talks with...

Markets Market concentration in a bull market is a feature, not a bug. (downtownjoshbrown.com) Valuations don’t tell you much about what happens the next year. (tker.co) How have Wall Street strategists done with their price...

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