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DID YOU KNOW: Brokerage sweep accounts are, on average, yielding only 0.25%? 🤦🤦‍♀️

https://www.barrons.com/articles/brokerage-sweep-accounts-51565986278

Harry Markopolos is getting blowback from short-sellers for calling “GE a bigger fraud than Enron” 🌬 – @FT

https://www.ft.com/content/27d8b4ac-c043-11e9-89e2-41e555e96722

DID YOU KNOW: the Energy sector’s share of the S&P 500 has not been this low in over 40 years! 🛢⛽️

https://www.barrons.com/articles/chevron-and-other-oil-and-gas-stocks-to-love-51566000196

“How would a 2020 recession happen?” 🕵 – @Neil_Irwin

Bakkt’s highly-anticipated physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts are set to launch ₿₿₿ – @coindesk

https://www.coindesk.com/bakkt-says-its-cleared-to-launch-bitcoin-futures-next-month

The US Treasury’s Mutilated 🔪 Currency Division refunds $30 Million per year for destroyed bills 💰💰

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/11/749351330/cash-back-guarantee-the-u-s-redeems-damaged-bills-because-the-dollar-depends-on-?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_source=twitter.com

Why we are unlikely to see a four-decade bull market in bonds like this ever again 😎🤑 – @awealthofcs

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/08/an-appreciation-for-the-bull-market-in-long-term-bonds/

DID YOU KNOW: “In just 50 years, world fertility rates have been cut in half.” 🌍 – @visualcapitalist

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/over-a-century-of-global-fertility/

“The ratings companies were broken in 2008; they are still broken today because post-crisis reforms didn’t address the root problems.” 🛠 – @ritholtz

How to fix the Credit Ratings Agencies

“News travels faster today than it has at any point in history.” 📰 – @michaelbatnick

Everybody Knows Everything

Japan surpasses China as largest foreign holder of US Treasurys

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/15/japan-surpasses-china-as-largest-foreign-holder-of-us-treasurys.html

GE Is New Target of Madoff Whistleblower

https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-is-new-target-of-madoff-whistleblower-11565866617

The Average Investor Lost 0.45% Over the Past Decade Trying to Time the Market

https://www.morningstar.com/articles/942396/mind-the-gap-2019

The Navarro Recession? WSJ shook right now 😡

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-navarro-recession-ii-11565825029

“Ring saves Amazon money by deterring package theft.” 🚫📦 – @ranimolla

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/8/12/20802325/amazon-ring-ecommerce-package-theft

“A baby’s state of being can turn on a dime. So can the stock market.” 👶 – @bpsandpieces

Investing Lessons from Three Weeks of Fatherhood

“The most successful investors are able to ignore the things today that they know won’t matter tomorrow.” 🌅 – @michaelbatnick

It’s Hard to Think Long-Term

Why you see a lot of ASD people working in quantitative investing 💭💬 – @amandakcantrell

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1gq9tqwk8z108/They-Get-Fired-All-the-Time-And-They-Have-No-Idea-Why

‘Virtual restaurants’ and ‘ghost kitchens’ are the future of food delivery 👻🥡 – @nytimesbusiness

Forget the Yield Curve. The 30-Year Treasury Is Scary.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-14/forget-the-yield-curve-the-30-year-treasury-yield-is-scary