The Brutal Monotony of All Time Highs

There’s only one subtle joke in the film Anchorman and it involves the fact that the San Diego news team’s weather man has a sub-100 IQ. In a city where “72 and sunny” is the forecast 365 days a year, even Brick Tamland has no problem reliably delivering this news to the viewers. In the chart below,…

Killer Mike goes IN on Ferguson prosecutor, goes viral

Killer Mike, one half of rap duo Run the Jewels, came out for a show an hour after the Ferguson prosecutor’s statement and made an emotional speech that has since exploded across the web. Watch below: Mike and El-P’s new record is incredible, hope you have it: Run the Jewels 2

The New Skyline

Our story begins in 2009 with a little-known Los Angeles-based private equity firm called CIM. The firm’s three managing partners, a former Drexel Burnham banker and a pair of former Israeli paratroopers, quietly dropped in on Manhattan’s punch drunk post-financial crisis real estate market with money to spend. CIM moved quickly, writing checks to bail…

The Riskalyze Report: Advisors Add the Permanent Portfolio

My friends at Riskalyze share the stocks and funds that advisors all over the country have used in their clients’ accounts each week. This data has been aggregated from across the client accounts of the thousands of advisors who use the software. Most of it comes directly through the third-party custodians where advisors’ assets are held. I hope we…

The Death of the A Share (and nobody cares)

As the retail brokerage model continues its steady decline into irrelevance, one of its cornerstone products, the mutual fund A share, now finds itself in the opening throes of a death rattle years in the making… via Investment News: The “A” share-class grouping — the largest among retail mutual funds — is largely made up of…