So a couple of years back Anheiser-Busch, the maker of Budweiser beer and several other iconic American brands, was acquired by InBev, a European conglomerate known for its Stella Artois, Michelob, Corona and Beck’s franchises. InBev now makes and distributes Budweiser and the company is based in Leuven, Belgium. Today at 4pm ET, Belgium faces off against…

A new profile of Bill Miller hit the Wall Street Journal yesterday and boy is it a doozy. If I were teaching a course on behavioral investing, and had lost access to all of the curriculum’s text books for a week, I could probably get by just on pull-quotes from this piece. Something happens to…

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As Chairman of the Twitter Federal Reserve, I sometimes find myself shaking my head at some of the daily banality I see tweeted and shared amidst my domain. More Twitter users has not been an unqualified positive for the financial web, despite the idea of the “network effect” we’re constantly seeing celebrated elsewhere. Sometimes less participation…

Last summer I was invited to cover the joint conference between Institutional Investor and CNBC called Delivering Alpha. At the time, I called it the best investment conference I have ever been to (and I go to lots of these things, as you know). Never before had so many giants of the investment industry been…

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Industrial stocks in the S&P 500 are trailing the broad market substantially this year, but they don’t deserve it. As Barron’s Ben Levisohn tells us in this weekend’s Barron’s, industrials may be about to hit their stride in the second half of the year: With questions about economic expansion rampant, the sector dropped 1.4% during…