Superforecasting, Funerals and Black Art

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- My welcome-to-summer morning train reads:

• The Legend of Nintendo (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Does Apollo Need Investors? (Institutional Investor)
• Ten Ideas to Foster Long-Term Investing (Brandes Institute)
• Everything you know about Bitcoin is thanks to this Czech grandpa (Outline)
• Mistakes Were Made. (And, Yes, By Me.) (Jim O’Shaughnessy); see also Wall Street Looks to Superforecasting to Predict the Financial Future (Wall Street Journal)
• On Science Advancing One Funeral at a Time (ProMarket)
• What we lost when Craigslist shut down its personals section (Quartz)
• Apple Is Figuring Out What’s Next (Above Avalon); see also How Amazon Became One of Washington’s Most Powerful Players (Wall Street Journal)
• Weather Reporters Donned This Striped Pattern on Thursday for a Good Reason (Huffington Post)
• From boiling lead and black art: An essay on the history of mathematical typography (Practically Efficient)

Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Raife Giovinazzo of Fuller & Thaler Asset Management. Giovinazzo conducts research using applied behavioral finance to enhance investment processes at the firm. He studied under Daniel Kahneman and Richard Thaler, Nobel-winning pioneers of behavioral economics.

U.S. Equity Bull Run Is Second-Longest For Economic Expansions

Source: Capital Spectator

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