I spotted this chart this morning – it looks at the percentage of Americans with direct investment in equities. There are a few things about this chart that caught my eye. The first was the obvious decline, Gallup attribute this to a shrinking number of middle class American being involved in the markets. This may…
DetailsEconomists
I has completely forgotten about this. Click on the pic to be taken to a great little time waster.
Welcome To Iceland
Kviabryggja Prison in western Iceland doesn’t need walls, razor wire, or guard towers to keep the convicts inside. Alone on a wind-swept cape, the old farmhouse is bound by the frigid North Atlantic on one side and fields of snow-covered lava rock on another. To the east looms Snaefellsjokull, a dormant volcano blanketed by a…
DetailsHedge Fund Returns
I thought I would update this. It combines data from the Barclays Hedge Fund Index and available total yearly returns for the S&P500
DetailsWhere The Wealthy Keep Their Money
What surprised me was how little space real estate occupies.
The Unbearable Asymmetry of Bullshit
Science and medicine have done a lot for the world. Diseases have been eradicated, rockets have been sent to the moon, and convincing, causal explanations have been given for a whole range of formerly inscrutable phenomena. Notwithstanding recent concerns about sloppy research, small sample sizes, and challenges in replicating major findings—concerns I share and which I…
DetailsBiased Shorts: Short sellers’ Disposition Effect and Limits to Arbitrage
Biased Shorts: Short sellers’ Disposition Effect and Limits to Arbitrage from Trading Game Pty Ltd
DetailsAll The Worlds Stock Exchanges By Size
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