According to legend, a pharmacist by the name of John Pemberton was looking for a cure for the headache when he first tried blending Coca leaves with Cola nuts….
Looks like certain hedge funds are back in style now. With the constant conveyor belt of hot new investments, as soon as something starts to lose its luster, there’s always something…
The stock market is confusing. When you talk about it, people tend to nod their heads sagely and make bland comments, like they do with most things relating to the…
Remember when the financial media was positively giddy over the fact that the Dow Jones hit 20,000 points earlier this year (and we weren’t so impressed)? In part one of…
We talk about indexes a lot, so I thought it’d be a good idea to go over some basics to make sure we’re on the same page when it comes…
There’s been a lot of talk about the “Trump Rally,” and just how historic it’s been. MarketWatch called it “the best 50-day performance for a GOP commander-in-chief ever[.]” The media…
It’s really easy to forget the underlying purpose of the stock market. Everyone always looks at it essentially as a horse race or a measure of how well a company…
It’s always fun to take a couple of swings at hedge funds (though it’s starting to feel like punching down lately). It looks like the outflows from hedge funds will continue…
IPOs are sexy. Or at least the ones that make the headlines are. They’re the hot new (huge) company, and now people can get their own little piece of them. Plus…
We use models all the time. We are constantly making decisions based on them – everything from simple heuristics (nachos taste good), all the way up to (and including) quantum…