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It's finally here! Hardcover, kindle, and audio versions of:
How NOT To Invest: The ideas, numbers, and behaviors that destroy wealth - and how to avoid them
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Barry Ritholtz
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Barry Ritholtz
@Ritholtz
Chair/CIO of RWM ritholtzwealth.com Masters-in-Business podcast/radio host Director of Cognitive Dissonance
- Wow, this is from GOP pollster @FrankLuntz: “I’m trying to do a focus group tonight with undecided voters under the age of 27 for a major news outlet. And I can’t recruit young women to this, because they don’t exist as undecided voters,” he said.
- The United States has 4.2% of the world’s population, but over 25.3% of the infections and 24.4% of the deaths. It is an overwhelming indictment of gross negligence and incompetence
- WTF? This Georgia senator and her husband bought shares of a company that manufactures personal protective gear around the time she claimed Democrats were misleading the public on the dangers of COVID-19.
- S&P 500 under President Biden up 532% (annualized)
- Friend with Covid became a long hauler, suffered with shortness of breath, uneven heartbeat, lost sense of smell since last March. Just got vaccinated + it helped substantially: long-haul symptoms improved: Energy returned, aches vanished, even sense of smell returned.
- "Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what's happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works." —Morgan Housel
- I just went on Facebook $FB for the first time in months. Its a horrid wasteland of spam, nonsense and advertising, HowTF is this still a thing?
- An ongoing source of millennial frustration + anger is the expense of basic opportunities today vs prior generations. Data explains a lot of politics + generational angst. If you cannot afford tuition, what sort of economic mobility is there? reddit.com/r/coolguides/c…
- Idea: Repeal Obamacare AND congressional healthcare. Elected officials must use whatever Obamacare replacement is for themselves & families
- The insurrection was MUCH uglier than it looked. We are learning more about: -Plans for grabbing Electoral College votes -Participants with Police/Military background -Taliban style videotape confessions / executions of Congress members Not a bloodless Coup - its treasonNews outlets are publishing more videos, photos and testimonials from the pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill. And it's becoming clear that as heinous as the attack looked in real time, on live TV and in our social feeds, it was even worse than we knew then. cnn.it/3scNCPk
