Today’s must-read: Ruchir Sharma, the head of emerging markets and global macro at Morgan Stanley Investment Management: The Gold and Oil Boom is Over. (Bloomberg)
Goldman Sachs: Stocks aren’t cheap but the rally ain’t over – buy the cyclicals. (TheTell)
Mohamed El-Erian’s excellent take on what’s happening in Japan right now. (ProjectSyndicate)
Seth Klarman is not playing the momentum game, “most investors feel the hefty weight of short-term performance expectations, forcing them to take up marginal or highly speculative investments that we shun.” (ZeroHedge)
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Jason Zweig on how Buffett is teaching investors humility and self-doubt as an advantage. (MoneyBeat)
“Credentialed Bear” Dougie Kass gets to tangle with Buffett live at Berkshirepalooza, hits the old man up for some money. (DealBook)
Charlie Munger: Of course the banks are going to blow up again. Ain’t you paying attention? (Fortune)
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Turns out Austerity may have been what pushed the American colonists to revolution back in the day, Reinhart. (Bloomberg)
Mario Gabelli is pimping on a level that you can’t even understand, player. (DealBook)
Amazing new tool to bookmark: The cheapest ETF for every investment objective. (ETFdb)
Deep thoughts from the Interloper – The Economics of Generation Hate (Interloping)
Visit the luckiest village on earth – where everyone won the national lottery together. (GQ)
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