Joshua M Brown

The Unreachables

There are people who are so easily gas-lit and suggestible that they’ve spent the last week trashing the recently departed John McCain and his grieving family for holding a funeral. Seriously. An American POW and war hero, a man who served the country for fifty years. They went after him. They went after people who…

Defeating Short-Termism with More Data, Not Less

Barry Ritholtz and Josh Brown debate the merits allowing publicly traded companies to report to their investors semi-annually versus quarterly. Do investors behave better or worse when you restrict information from them? Is there a such thing as too much transparency? What happens with investors when their advisors allow them to focus on quarterly performance…