Stocks at an All-Time High

“Congratulations.  I always thought that record would stand until it was broken.”  -Yogi Berra in a telegram to Johnny Bench after Bench broke Berra's record for most home runs as a catcher.   We recently explained why the Dow Jones Industrial Average is a terrible, no good, very bad index.  In spite of our best [...]

The Dow is a Bad Accident of History

I was a recent college graduate and there I was on the trading desk of a large institutional investment manager, entrusted with a role well beyond the pay grade of a newly minted liberal arts history major.  Like many people in their first job out of college, my primary objective was not to make a [...]

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