Relive Your Favorite Losses with Dot Com Monopoly!

I’m buying one of these for my dad, hopefully he won’t land on eToys again… (click to embiggen!)   Wait til you see the Chance and Community Chest cards, head over below. Source: Relive the first tech bubble with Monopoly: The .com Edition (Quartz)  

Airlines

The airline stocks are up 100% this year, the top performing industry group of 2013. They’ve been despised by investors for so long that there’s not even an airline stock ETF! Analysts are projecting 20% earnings growth over the next few years – remarkable given the history of these companies having lost more money than…

This Week on TRB

Here were the most read posts on TRB this week, in case you missed them: Sundown at the Permabear Alamo Can You Get Investment Knowledge from Twitter? BlackRock: 3 Reasons for a Global Dividend Growth Strategy Chart o’ the Day: Solar Energy Costs Plummet Bernanke Goes Out Like a Wrecking Ball  

Chicken Soup for the Stockpicker’s Soul

If you’re an investor looking to capitalize on market inefficiencies, this is music to your ears for 2014: If you bought a U.S. equity fund this year, there’s about a 98% chance you invested in a fund managed by the Vanguard Group Inc. Vanguard, best known for its index funds and emphasis on low-cost investing, received $41.4…

A Guide to Private Placement Due Diligence for Stockbrokers

Here’s a throwback post from my old bomb-throwing days, hope you like it… *** Hi, I’m Josh Brown.  You might know me from such shows as the Fast Money Halftime Report and Felix TV… A recent disciplinary action by Finra has sent a warning shot across the bow at stockbrokers who sell private placements to customers without having…