Debt
- Your options when you screwed yourself with debt. – Here’s what happens if you don’t pay off the most common types of debt – CNBC – https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/10/heres-what-happens-if-you-dont-pay-off-the-most-common-types-of-debt.html
Investments/Valuations
- Buffett at record levels of cash as the war chest swells to about $100 billion – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-07/buffett-nears-a-milestone-he-doesn-t-want-100-billion-in-cash
- These types of warnings are particularly insightful as most Wall Street firms and investment companies have a vested interest in keeping people in the game so they can keep generating fees – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/pimco-and-t-rowe-price-warn-investors-it-s-time-to-reduce-risk
- For the number crunching lovers on valuations and market cycles – https://realinvestmentadvice.com/3-pitfalls-to-avoid-while-navigating-a-late-stage-bull-market/
- One of the greatest value investors believes, “we are in a dangerous place in financial markets” -Billionaire investor Howard Marks: Passive investing making certain tech stocks a ‘dangerous place’ – https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/10/billionaire-value-investor-howard-marks-theres-nothing-thats-cheap-today.html
- A proven value/contrarian investor sounds off the alarms. Be wary of tech and bullish on gold and gold miners – https://www.fuw.ch/article/the-only-question-is-when-the-bomb-is-going-off/
- Jesse Felder offers a perspective on historical valuations based on evidence of accurate historical correlations – https://thefelderreport.com/2017/08/02/by-this-measure-the-current-stock-market-bubble-is-far-bigger-than-the-dotcom-bubble/
Health
- American’s keep boozing it up. The question remains, “Why do we need such outlets if our lives were actually super-duper like everyone is pretending them to be?” – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/america-s-drinking-problem-is-much-worse-this-century
- As if we needed more reasons to “not trust” corporations who only care about their bottom lines – https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-09/monsanto-was-its-own-ghostwriter-for-some-safety-reviews
Happiness
- An interesting way of looking at “the American dream” (or whatever that is supposed to mean) – https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/upshot/the-transformation-of-the-american-dream.html?ref=business&_r=0
Other Interesting Tidbits
- The richest men in history in a nice chart – http://www.marketwatch.com/story/richest-men-in-history-vladimir-putin-bill-gates-and-warren-buffett-arent-even-close-2017-08-09