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Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns

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abnormalreturns.com) Top clicks this week TIPS are on sale. thinkadvisor.com) Peter Lazaroff talks with Jesse Cramer about the math behind car ownership. Also on the site The question with emerging market equities is if, not when. abnormalreturns.com) The return on hassle is a real thing. peterlazaroff.com)

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10 Tuesday AM Reads

The Big Picture

EVs Made Up 10% of All New Cars Sold Last Year : Worldwide, sales of electric vehicles in 2022 passed 10% market share for the first time; 11% of total car sales in Europe (Plug-in hybrid vehicles were another >9%), EVs were 19% in China, and 5.8% It was an era of illusory and ridiculous promises. ( New York Times ). • Prospect ).

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

The bill, meant to force the sale of TikTok, passed by a landslide. link] • Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon : Want to really understand how large language models work? [link] see also How the House quietly revived the TikTok ban before most of us noticed : An unusually fast process.

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10 Weekend Reads

The Big Picture

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. New York Times ) • From Dylan to Bieber, catalogue sales are the megadeals taking over music : Some call it song management, others royalty acquisition. To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits. What happens if they fail?

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Know Thyself

Getting Your Financial Ducks In A Row

Even though it’s been decided that it was politically incorrect, one popular baby-boomer who is now age 63 once admitted that math is tough (Barbie, of the doll fame, who actually admitted that “Math class is tough”). There’s no shame in admitting that factor – for a lot of us, math can be very tough.

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My New ETF: 100% of Upside + 0% of Downside

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Second, follow Charlie Munger’s advice and invert the sales pitch: 70% of the upside (you give up 16.62% per year for 2 years) with none of the downside sounds attractive – unless you think about what you are really giving up and getting in exchange. Giving up permanent gains to avoid impermanent drops seems like an awful exchange.

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Saturday links: useless things

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grist.org) Hybrids Doing the math on a hybrid vs. conventional ICE. npr.org) Sales of nicotine-alternative Zyn are booming. EVs Mercedes Benz is pushing out the date it will go full EV. theverge.com) Why EV-only companies are struggling. wsj.com) More EVs make for less asthma. bestinterest.blog) Just how green are hybrids?

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