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What are the thresholds?

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There are two Mark Cubans on the web. The one we need to ignore is the one who dispenses unsolicited investment advice to ordinary people as though they have the luxury of following it. “Get out of the stock market,” is a fine sentiment when you have a billion dollars with which to make any…

You probably have “that politics guy” in your office too. Never misses a chance to bring up the latest political story or to turn a non-political story into something about politics. I have a politics guy who works near me.  He wastes roughly 20 minutes of my day every day. “Can you believe Obama just…

It’s gotta suck to be a sell-side analyst, you almost can’t win in the end.

One last thought headed into the weekend… What if you could invest in the stock market or the bond market for a cost of zero? I linked to this Index Universe story about Schwab’s new essentially free index ETFs from my WSJ post this morning. But I’ve been thinking about this all day. In dropping…

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