“I want all the gains of the hottest stocks, none of the losses of a general market decline, I want the ability to override your decisions if they look to be wrong and I want a running commentary from you about what you’re buying and selling every step of the way so that I can play along at home. Also, I’ll be logging into my account hourly from a mobile phone and checking you versus the benchmark nightly.”
Hot Links: Schadenfreude Special
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The Return of Unrest (did it ever leave?)
via Eric Peters: Guns & Butter: The only thing more difficult than controlling millions of people, is controlling a billion. Heaven forbid they’re poor. Unemployed. Their stomachs empty, growling. So when nations start fighting, smart leaders start hoarding. Anyhow, in the past 30days, non-edible commodities fell; oil -1%, natural gas -3%, copper -10%. But wheat surged…
“I” Shares
BRICs… Russia is a geopolitical basket case – foreign investors don’t know if their investments in the country are on the brink of being nationalized. Putin plays Russian Roulette with five out of six chambers loaded, he just might be insane enough to crash his own economy to prove a point to the world. The…
Is Success Inherited or Learned?
In my 37 years of life, I have come to agree with the premise of the below brilliant infographic: There are two routes to success. It comes easy to those whom were borne of it, they already know how to get along and they’re surrounded by positive role models and key connections their whole lives. But…
This Week on TRB
Here were the most read posts on TRB this week, in case you missed them: photo: Three young Ukrainians take a break in front of a luxury fashion shop near Independence Square in Kiev, Ukraine, on March 11. The U.S. and European Union have threatened sanctions against Moscow over the military standoff in the strategic Crimean…
Clips From Today’s Halftime Report
Chinese Fire Drill
Asian markets were walloped overnight and are starting to look more and more like the culprit for recent weakness in US equities. China GDP Growth rate expectations are being slashed by The Street while the Chinese equity market continues its slow-motion crash. Some important reads on the topic: Big investment banks rush to cut China…
Why did the stock market sell off today?
Wall Street Journal: Tensions in Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula Yahoo Finance: Russians Fox Business: Obamacare CNBC: It didn’t sell off at all, it was actually a reverse rally Forbes: Taxes are too high Huffington Post: Taxes are too low Fox News: Gay marriage Motley Fool: Sign up here to find out! Bloomberg TV: The…
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