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“Driving an inexpensive car is one of the biggest levers people can pull to free themselves up financially to save more.” 🚗🚙 – @awealthofcs

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/09/is-the-ford-f-150-partially-responsible-for-the-retirement-crisis/

Member of S&P Dow Jones index committee accused of insider trading

https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-n-y-men-accused-of-trading-on-inside-information-from-s-p-dow-jones-indices-11600734328?mod=markets_featst_pos3

The reason why the Apple One bundle is a disappointment 🍎😞 – @benthompson

https://stratechery.com/2020/2020-bundles/

Why stuff that doesn’t make sense happens all the time in the stock market 🤷🤷‍♂️ – @michaelbatnick

The Stock Market Makes No Sense. And it Makes Perfect Sense.

A look inside the great SPAC boom of 2020 starring Bill Ackman 🎆💣 – @mcelarier

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1ngx7vttq33kh/Egregious-Founder-Shares-Free-Money-for-Hedge-Funds-A-Cluster-k-of-Competing-Interests-Welcome-to-the-Great-2020-SPAC-Boom

IAC-owned Dotdash has amassed quite the portfolio of online assets 🍴🍷 – @axios

https://www.axios.com/dotdash-simply-recipes-serious-eats-94ee70ac-01ad-41cb-85fa-98426a5daa43.html

Investment strategists are piling on the traditional 60/40 portfolio 🏈 – @FT

https://www.ft.com/content/fdb793a4-712e-477f-9a81-7f67aefda21a

Why you should save 50% of your raises 💪🏦 – @dollarsanddata

How Much Lifestyle Creep is Okay?

Electric vehicle prices are now competitive with combustion engine cars – ahead of schedule!

Kashkari: Banks Still Are Too Weak and Risky

https://www.ai-cio.com/news/banks-still-weak-risky-kashkari-says/

If it holds, this is one pandemic trend that is actually positive 📈😎 – @reformedbroker

“more than half the racial gap in individual stock ownership has disappeared essentially overnight.”

“Benchmarking yourself strictly against other people’s winning investment ideas will make you feel like a failure at all times.” 🎯😱 – @awealthofcs

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/09/benchmarking/

Quibi is reportedly exploring its ‘strategic options’ 🤷🤷‍♂️ – @WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/articles/quibi-explores-strategic-options-including-a-possible-sale-11600707806

“Companies that can win the loyalty of new investors, especially younger ones, can enjoy relatively cheaper and more secure capital over long periods of time – as evidenced by Tesla.” 🚙🚗 – Aaron Brown

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/stock-investors-are-younger-and-more-racially-diverse/ar-BB19fJ7g

“The baseline scenario is that conditions and Fed policy mesh such that the yield curve remains flat.” 🏛️ – @timduy

Two Fed Narratives

“Investing is about endurance and the ability to withstand large drawdowns from time to time without panicking.” 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️ – @reformedbroker

How big a drawdown can you survive?

“Bears always sound smarter than bulls…In the court of investing, the bulls bear the burden of proof.” 🧑‍⚖️⚖️ – @michaelbatnick

The Easiest Thing in Investing

Microsoft is buying the owner of the video-game publisher Bethesda Softworks, for $7.5 billion 🎮💰 – @business

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-21/microsoft-to-buy-bethesda-studios-for-7-5-billion-to-boost-xbox

Seasonality watch: the third week of September is historically the weakest for the stock market 📉📖 – @QuantifiablEdgs

Is the Weakest Week Still Weak When There is Weakness Prior to the Weakest Week?

The founder and chairman of controversial EV startup Nikola has resigned 🔋🚚 – @NYTimes