Sun.May 28, 2023

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10 Sunday Reads

The Big Picture

Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • We Want Them Infected : These ‘experts’ sold the U.S. on a disastrous COVID plan, and never paid a professional price. A painstakingly documented new book by Jonathan Howard, a neurologist at New York University and a veteran debunker of the pseudoscience contaminating our efforts to fight the pandemic.

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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

Abnormal Returns

Top clicks this week Ten bad market takes including 'Recession is inevitable?' (ritholtz.com) Why so many Americans think their house is the best investment. (awealthofcommonsense.com) 10 charts this week including the surge in Nvidia ($NVDA). (bilello.blog) What do adult children owe their parents? (fatherly.com) Buy-and-hold forever doesn't work out very well.

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The Best Time to Buy Stocks

A Wealth of Common Sense

The top 10% own nearly 90% of the stocks. That’s the bad news. The good news is more people now own stocks in some capacity. That hasn’t always been the case. The 1929 crash that kicked off the Great Depression was a massacre. The stock market fell more than 80%. Plenty of people got wiped out but it wasn’t as widespread as you would think.

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Hotels: Occupancy Rate Down 1.5% Year-over-year

Calculated Risk

From STR: STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 20 May U.S. hotel performance increased from the previous week and showed improved comparisons year over year, according to STR‘s latest data through 20 May. 14-20 May 2023 (percentage change from comparable week in 2022): • Occupancy: 67.5% (-1.5%) • Average daily rate (ADR): US$158.53 (+3.6%) • Revenue per available room (RevPAR): US$106.98 (+2.1%) emphasis added The following graph shows the seasonal pattern for the hotel occupancy rate using

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2025 Industry Index: How Top Advisors Are Scaling Smarter (and Faster) This Year

Where are top advisors focusing in 2025? AcquireUp’s 2025 Industry Index reveals it all. Based on insights from 200+ financial professionals nationwide, discover why 74% say seminars and referrals deliver the best ROI, how automation is helping advisors scale faster, and why only 8% are tapping into niche marketing (a major growth opportunity!). Whether you're refining your client acquisition strategy or scaling your practice, this report gives you the real-world data, benchmarks, and action ste

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles Creating new businesses is an extraordinary talent and arguably the most important a company can have over the long run. (By Matthew Ball) Tech skills will continue to be in high demand. But tech jobs will become less safe and, for many, less rewarding. (By Dror Poleg) Monetary policy is at a potentially historic inflection point. (By Allison Schrager) The economic interests of consumers and big corporations aren.

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The AI Era Unleashed: How NVIDIA’s Stock Boom Reflects The Future Of Tech

Advisor Perspectives

A bet on semiconductors, artificial intelligence and data centers is looking more and more attractive as AI is set to be applied to countless functions.

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[cdata[ The Value of a Financial Advisor: Unlocking Financial Success and Peace of Mind ]]

oXYGen Financial

![CDATA[ If you're looking to secure your financial future, you need to consider working with a financial planner. A financial planner can help you develop a plan to reach your financial goals and can provide invaluable guidance and support along the way. When looking for a financial planner, there are several factors to consider, below is a outline of 5 key things to consider to.

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Accounting For Good’s 2023 EOFY Checklist

Accounting for Good

The post Accounting For Good’s 2023 EOFY Checklist first appeared on ACCOUNTING FOR GOOD.

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Best Debt Free Small Cap Stocks in India To Add To Your Watchlist in 2023

Trade Brains

Best Debt Free Small Cap Stocks : Both experienced and new investors are fascinated by small-cap stocks, the underdog of the stock market. Take a look at any ace investors’ portfolio. You’ll notice that their investment journey started with one or two companies that made the most wealth in their portfolio. Combined with their significant growth potential and a generally unaware public, the small-cap stocks have hidden gems, capable of transforming the wealth of any investor.

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The AI Era Unleashed: How NVIDIA’s Stock Boom Reflects The Future Of Tech

Advisor Perspectives

If you were doubting whether the age of AI has arrived, NVIDIA’s stock performance this week may have given you second thoughts.

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Data Talks, CFOs Listen: Why Analytics Are Key To Better Spend Management

Speaker: Claire Grosjean, Global Finance & Operations Executive

Finance teams are drowning in data—but is it actually helping them spend smarter? Without the right approach, excess spending, inefficiencies, and missed opportunities continue to drain profitability. While analytics offers powerful insights, financial intelligence requires more than just numbers—it takes the right blend of automation, strategy, and human expertise.

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Accounting For Good’s 2023 EOFY Checklist

Accounting for Good

The post Accounting For Good’s 2023 EOFY Checklist first appeared on ACCOUNTING FOR GOOD.

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SIC Mix

Advisor Perspectives

Swiss money manager Felix Zulauf is a crowd favorite at SIC. His 2022 presentation was right on target, so I asked him back to tell us what he expects for the rest of 2023 and beyond. Unfortunately, he thinks a slowdown is coming that will hit markets hard.

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Sunday links: information as energy

Abnormal Returns

Strategy What lessons are new pandemic-era investors going to learn? (awealthofcommonsense.com) Why the idea of market timing is so seductive. (humbledollar.com) Some words of wisdom from the late Sam Zell. (novelinvestor.com) AI Is an AI stock bubble inevitable? (awealthofcommonsense.com) AI is coming for political campaigns. (msn.com) How the media is covering ChatGPT.