Broker Rules, Beto and Open-Concept Regret

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- My Pi Day morning train reads:

• The World Pulls the Andon Cord on the 737 Max (Air Current)
• The Twenty Craziest Investing Facts Ever (Irrelevant Investor)
• Companies focus on social good as their new marketing campaigns (Axios); see also CIOs and Asset Owners Discuss Fossil Fuel Divestment (Chief Investment Officer)
• 5 Things to Know About the $250 Billion of Tech IPOs Coming to Market (Koyfin)
• Aquaculture wars: The perils and promise of Big Fish (Christian Science Monitor)
• The Battle Over Broker Rules Goes Local (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Psychologists explain why at-home exercise machines like Peloton have what it takes to keep people moving (Recode)
• People in open-concept homes are realizing the walls were there for a reason (Boston Globe); see also The New “Dream Home” Should Be a Condo (New York Times)
• How Beto O’Rourke Could Win the 2020 Democratic Primary (FiveThirtyEight)

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Fed’s QE Unwind Reaches $501 Billion, Balance Sheet Falls Below $4 Trillion

Source: Climateer Investing

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Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He founded Ritholtz Wealth Management and was chief executive and director of equity research at FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm. He is the author of “Bailout Nation.”

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