Hot Links: Down With the King
Posted August 25, 2014 by Joshua M Brown
What I'm reading this morning:
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning…
Burger King in talks to hilariously merge with Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons for tax savings. Basically an FU to Obama. (WSJ )
Draghi’s off the cuff remarks tell you everything you need to know about what comes next for the ECB. (BusinessInsider )
Ben Carlson: What stage of the bull market are we in? (AWealthOfCommonSense )
Your asset allocation is wrong (and so is everyone else’s) (Bason )
With his fundamental indexing, Rob Arnott practically invented “smart beta” – here’s what he thinks of its bastardization. (AdvisorPerspectives )
Patrick O’Shaughnessy: Everything is expensive. (YahooFinance )
Value maven Joel Greenblatt is still the man. (Barrons )
Amazon’s secret plan to become a physical retailer. (Recode )
Activist hedge funds have been smashing the indices – but not without volatility. (ValueWalk )
Larry Swedroe: Nails in the hedge fund coffin. (ETF )
12 things you could learn from entrepreneur and investor John Doerr. (25iq )
Gabriel Sherman: Seriously, what the hell is TIME Inc going to do, now that it’s a standalone company? (NewYorkMagazine )
The middle class is vanishing before your eyes. (JoeTaxpayer )
Vice News is not f***ing around. (NYT )
American journo freed by Al Nusra terrorist group after negotiations with Qatar. They probably don’t really want to be at war with America… (NYT )
Erin Heatherton is so hot she should be arrested. (Egotastic )
The new book – Clash of the Financial Pundits – now on sale!
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