Joshua M Brown

What Morgan Housel Reads

My pal Morgan Housel put together a really cool list of his fave writers on the web. I’m always honored to make a list like this but making Morgan’s list is really special because of who else is on it, not to mention the fact that he himself is one of the best bloggers out…

This Week on TRB

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis, the Buffalo News These were the most read posts on TRB this week, in case you missed it:

The 7 Deadly Social Media Sins

7 Deadly Social Media Sins: Wrath = Yelp Greed = LinkedIn Sloth = Uber Pride = Twitter Lust = Tinder Envy = Facebook Gluttony = Instagram — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) February 5, 2015

Yeah I said it.

RadioShack files for bankruptcy. If only they’d thought of selling shakes. — Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) February 5, 2015 Read also: RadioShack files for bankruptcy (Business Insider) Good night, gang

Top 10 Advisor Bloggers List

The other day I was named to Financial Advisor Magazine’s top 10 advisor blogger list. They used web traffic data as collected by Michael Kitces to make up the list. It’s a good list and I’m really flattered to be be on it (I’m number 3, my partner Barry is number 1). But I wanted…

With so much drama in the ECB…

All kidding aside, does anything matter less than the rolling European debt crisis, now into Year Six and showing no signs of letting up? Or does anything matter more? To me, this is more a humanitarian crisis than a financial crisis at this point, more of a social story than a market one. Is contagion…

Or maybe just stop entirely.

Do you have an explanation for every week’s market fluctuations? What about every day’s? Or each hour’s flips and flops? Do you? I suppose you could go on playing this game all day, every day. Or maybe just stop entirely.  

Buffett vs hedge funds bet through Year Six

Carol Loomis updates us on the seven year bet at the end of Year Six: Results are in for the seventh year of what’s sometimes called The Million-Dollar Bet—Warren Buffett’s 10-year wager that the S&P 500 would outperform a sampling of hedge funds—and, for now at least, it’s looking like a rout for the CEO…