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Forecasting: Impossible in Today’s Chaos? buff.ly/44q8ci4 buff.ly/44q8ci4

Podcast: How Economic Complexity Explains Which Countries Become Rich Ricardo Hausmann, director of the Growth Lab at Harvard University, explains economic complexity and how countries can move from being less complex to more complex over time buff.ly/44bhFJ9

Biden Called China a ‘Ticking Time Bomb.’ Here’s Why Investors Should Be Worried. @iimag buff.ly/3YGKGvk

4×4 Asset Allocation approaches every asset or strategy based on how it contributes to Growth, Income, Preservation, and Liquidity. Max Golts, PhD, explains what a goal-based approach to equity factors looks like from this perspective. @enterprising buff.ly/47DvVxs

What does the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora have to teach investors today? A lot more than you'd think. Mark J. Higgins, CFA, CFP, explains. @enterprising via @FinanceMuseum buff.ly/3OYBTkT

In this episode of #GuidingAssets, serial entrepreneur, Mac Lackey, shares his secrets to success as an entrepreneur and investor. From soccer to his ventures in the sports industry, Mac discusses his journey and the lessons he has learned. buff.ly/3GEvG8H

The Price of Money by Paul Sheard "is useful reading at a time when innovations [and] policy experiments . . . have made it critical to understand how money works," writes @enterprising review Mark K. Bhasin, CFA. @markbhasin via @penguinrandom buff.ly/3QxqnON

The momentum spillover effect describes the signal that a company’s bond momentum sends about its future stock returns. Daniel Fang, CFA, CAIA, explores whether it can help achieve equity alpha. @NTInvest via @enterprising buff.ly/45qy3qh

Fitch Ratings' US credit downgrade highlights a latent principal–agent problem in modern financial markets: Investors have outsourced much of their risk management to the rating agencies. Joshua J. Myers, CFA, explains. @cedarshill via @enterprising buff.ly/442xemx

Podcast: Ted Seides on the World’s Elite Money Managers Ted Seides, founder of Capital Allocators LLC and author of “Capital Allocators: How the World’s Elite Money Managers Lead and Invest”Seides is a CFA charterholder. buff.ly/444lHTz

Podcast: Dan Harris on Becoming a Business-Minded Entrepreneur Dan Harris, author “10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works.” buff.ly/44dw2fT

Podcast Nobel laureate Paul Krugman on UFOs, AI and Room Temperature Superconductors buff.ly/442o1dS

This October join industry and regulatory experts at the 27th Annual GIPS® Standards Conference to discuss the latest trends and challenges in investment performance. buff.ly/41EWVZH #ProfessionalLearning #Chicago

Forecasting: Impossible in Today’s Chaos? buff.ly/44q8ci4 buff.ly/44q8ci4

LAST CALL: Navigating the 3 C's in Fixed Income: Curve, Credit and Central Banks Aug 16, 2023 from 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM (PT) buff.ly/3Oi81zU

You can’t blow a bubble with bullshit: A preprint paper from Tobias Herzing and Matthias Muck. Its premise is to simulate a short squeeze similar to Gamestop in 2021 or Volkswagen in 2008 — except the distressed trader doesn’t exist. @FTAlphaville buff.ly/4474vNt

The evolution of original sin: The economists Barry Eichengreen, Ugo Panizza and Ricardo Hausmann were the first to call the dangerous dependency on foreign-currency borrowing the “original sin” of emerging markets @FTAlphaville (free registration req'd) buff.ly/3QyAu5M

Activists Are Targeting Diverse Boards — And Succeeding @iimag buff.ly/3QL80pR

Podcast: What You Need to Know About Gold Joe Cavatoni, strategist at the World Gold Council, explains what drives the price of gold, what buyers need to know and why that magic$2000 number has served as a ceiling. buff.ly/3OKFvqJ

Podcast: Vanguard's Hard Pass on a `Soft Landing' Joseph Davis, the firm’s global chief economist: “To get inflation down that last yard to 2%, you have to see a modest weakening in the labor market, which means the unemployment rate’s going to rise " buff.ly/47iqsM5