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Crypto Can Turn Pro With a Little Help From Congress

Last July, the House Financial Services Committee approved two major pieces of legislation aimed at creating a regulatory framework for the...

16.04.2024 5

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

The Bad Science Behind Jonathan Haidt's Call to Regulate Social Media

Social Media Aaron Brown | 4.2.2024 10:45 AM In his 1996 book, The Vision of the Anointed , economist Thomas Sowell...

02.04.2024 8

Reason.com

Aaron Brown

Save Taxes With BOXX? It Is Too Good to Be True

Among the many too-good-to-be-true financial stories is the Alpha Architect 1-3 Month Box ETF, known by its ticker BOXX, that offers Treasury bill...

13.03.2024 2

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

The Achilles’ Heel of ETFs Promising 100% Income Yields

One of the hottest products for retail investors the last couple of years is the single-stock option-income exchange-traded fund. While the basic...

01.03.2024 10

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

New SEC Rule Will Impair the World's Most Important Market

Never mind the dense 247 pages. Just the title of Securities and Exchange Commission’s new rule concerning trading of US Treasuries, deemed the...

09.02.2024 6

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Sports Bets and Financial Disasters Share Some Traits

What does a November 2023 hockey bet have to do with the 2008 financial crisis and the Chunnel connecting England to France? A lot, and the relation...

29.01.2024 5

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Princeton's Matthew Desmond Gets Everything Wrong About Poverty's Root Causes

Poverty Aaron Brown | 1.23.2024 2:45 PM Matthew Desmond is a Princeton University professor and the recipient of a...

23.01.2024 3

Reason.com

Aaron Brown

ChatGPT May Rival Flash Boys in Transforming Markets

Large language models, such as ChatGPT, are threatening to disrupt most areas of life and work. Financial trading is no exception. The potential for...

16.01.2024 10

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Suburban Millionaires Beware — Private Equity Needs You

Blackstone Inc.’s private equity fund for wealthy individuals is a harbinger of two trends that many expect will transform investment management in...

10.01.2024 7

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

The New York Times Misrepresented a Shoddy Study Claiming Private Equity Worsened Hospital Care

Health Care Aaron Brown | 1.5.2024 10:00 AM " Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought...

05.01.2024 1

Reason.com

Aaron Brown

Historians Need a Reality Check on the Great Depression

The philosopher George Santayana famously wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” but also, less famously,...

28.12.2023 20

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Bitcoin Is Earning Its Place in a Balanced Portfolio

It should be no surprise that Bitcoin sold for over $44,000 this week, more than double its March 13 price. Going back to 2014, it has taken the...

08.12.2023 5

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Trading Corporate Bonds Is Still More Art Than Science

Two years ago, the Journal of Finance — the most prestigious journal in the field — retracted a published paper because of data errors, either the...

04.12.2023 2

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Annuities Are Back in Fashion, But Are They Safe?

Every time interest rates go up there is a flurry of demand for a product that has been around at least since the Roman Empire — annuities. The...

24.11.2023 10

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Crypto Needs a Killer App More Than a Chastened Binance

Here’s a question few of us will ever have to answer. Would you rather have $23 billion living in the United Arab Emirates with no US extradition...

22.11.2023 4

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Universities Shouldn’t Be Punished for Betting on Private Equity

Moody’s Investors Service recently released a report bluntly entitled, “Private equity exposure increases credit risk for universities with...

09.11.2023 2

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Are Stocks a Better Buy or Bonds With Treasuries at 5%?

The yield on 10-year Treasuries went above 5% last week for the first time since July 2007, when the first Transformers movie was topping the box...

30.10.2023 2

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Thiel’s Unicorn Success Is Awkward for Colleges

Atlassian Corp. agreed last week to acquire video-messaging startup Loom for $975 million, just short of the $1 billion “unicorn” valuation that...

19.10.2023 5

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

SEC’s New Hedge Fund Rules Lack an Accountant’s Precision

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced new rules for hedge funds to report on equity short positions. There’s nothing terrible...

16.10.2023 2

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

The Shady Statistics Behind the War on Painkillers

Drug Policy Aaron Brown | 10.11.2023 11:50 AM About twenty-three years ago, public health officials began to notice...

11.10.2023 2

Reason.com

Aaron Brown

Dalio’s Shakespearean Turn Is a Sign of the Times

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18.09.2023 5

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Tom Wolfe and the Birth of the Quant Revolution

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15.09.2023 5

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

What Shifting Stock-Bond Correlations Mean for Your Money

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14.09.2023 9

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

Widening Wealth and Inequality Gaps Have Limits

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08.09.2023 2

Bloomberg

Aaron Brown

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