Joshua M Brown

QOTD: An Optimistic Apocalypse

Chris Nolan’s Interstellar is being hailed as a masterpiece by those who’ve seen it, and even the grouchiest critics are being to forced to admit its epic scale and the novelty of its premise. The above quote comes from the New York Post’s curmudgeonly film critic Kyle Smith, who doesn’t like anything – especially if…

The Riskalyze Report: Advisors Buy the Dip in Gold

My friends at Riskalyze have offered me the opportunity to see which stocks and funds advisors all over the country are adding to their clients’ accounts and which ones they’ve been selling. Each week I’ll present you with the top three buys and sells and we’ll track how this progresses while trying to figure out…

This Week on TRB

The San Franicsco Giants’ Pablo Sandoval makes the World Series-winning final catch, Photo via TIME These were the most read posts on TRB this week, in case you missed them:

When one door closes…

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell The prevailing wisdom on QE in Policy Bear circles has been that the Fed was” trapped” and could never exit QE…

Chart o’ the Day: Massive, Misinformed Pessimism

Quartz takes some recent survey data from around the world and lets us know which countries are the most ignorant about their own social situations. Overall, Americans are the second most clueless, led only by the Italians, who must get their news from Mars. Here’s a look at each country’s citizens estimating their own nation’s…

20 Key Takeaways from Stocktoberfest 2014

I’m back in New York after an amazing few days out at Stocktoberfest 2014 on Coronado Island in San Diego. Yesterday, I talked about the convergence between technology startup-ism and Big Finance that’s become so apparent. Today, I’ll relay 20 key takeaways from the event: 1. Early stage tech guys talk about the startups they…