Very Good Dogs and How to Lose $5 Billion

(Bloomberg View) -- My "it's too late to buy a Valentine’s Day card now" morning train reads:

• The "Goldilocks Market" Is Over: Lessons From the Stock Selloff (Bloomberg)
• Why So Many Shopping Malls Are Being Built in Mexico (Wall Street Journal)
• The only thing to fear is the lack of fear itself (Financial Times)
• Nobody Knows Nothing (A Teachable Moment) but see Nobody Knows Anything (Economic Principals)
• The Best Way to Lose $5 Billion (Of Dollars And Data)
• Vanguard’s new CEO Tim Buckley hints the next move for his firm’s RIA’s 30-basis-point fee may be down, down, down (RIA Biz)
• Why So Many Men Die at 62 (Wall Street Journal)
• Fake News and Bots May Be Worrisome, But Their Political Power Is Overblown (the Upshot); see also Facebook Didn’t Tilt the Election (the Big Picture)
• New Study Finds Sea Level Rise Accelerating (NASA)
• The very best of the very good dogs are at Westminster’s most overlooked event (Washington Post)

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Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg View columnist. He founded Ritholtz Wealth Management and was chief executive and director of equity research at FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm. He blogs at the Big Picture and is the author of “Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy.”

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