There she goes, my beautiful world

The S&P 500 spent almost two full years, between the fall of 2012 and this past September, above its 200-day moving average. For 475 consecutive trading days, stocks remained in a pristine, untouched uptrend – the longest such event in stock market history. And now it’s over. The type of behavior you were rewarded for…

Automation…and then what?

Kevin Roose interviewed Nicholas Carr, author of the forthcoming book The Glass Cage: Automation and Us about the perils of a robotic future society in which no one has anything productive to do anymore. The 1993 film Demolition Man foresaw this issue, as Sly Stallone’s character was awaken from cryo-sleep centuries from now and confronted with…

How We Think About ETFs

Thanks to Eric Balchunas for featuring me in his latest column on ETFs for Bloomberg News. In the interview, we discussed smart and stupid usages of the products and some inside baseball stuff on how we think about asset allocation and money management. I hope you enjoy it! Downtown Josh Brown on Smart Money Being…

Beware…………………………….. it’s Correction Twitter!

Uh oh! It’s that time again – when a stock market correction turns our social network into a minefield of awful id and sophist super-ego, an unholy orchestra of crash calls and recriminations, a field of finger-pointing and frayed nerves. There are only three worse Twitters than Correction Twitter: Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Twitter, Presidential Primary Debate…

QOTD: Lower Forever?

The most eye-catching comments from the latest remarks from Fed Officials are the ones that include concern about foreign economies (read: Europe) as it relates to the future of interest rates. If Janet and the doves were looking for cover for their Lower for Longer posture, they need only look across the Atlantic. The above…

The Riskalyze Report: Tech gets its bell rung

Welcome to week 2 of my new recurring feature, The Riskalyze Report. 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…

Gross’s Law

(If I were Bill, I’d buy this image from Gapper’s article and frame it in my living room, it’s pretty awesome)